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Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

Commentary of the day
Odes of Solomon (Hebrew Christian text from the beginning of the 2nd century)
No. 3 (trans. ©James Charlesworth)

"The bridegroom is with them"

[Through baptism] I am putting on the love of the Lord (Gal 3:27)...
and he loves me.
For I should not have known how to love the Lord
if he had not continuously loved me...
I love the Beloved and my soul loves him.

Where his rest is, there also am I (cf. Sg 1:7).
And I shall be no foreigner
because there is no jealousy with the Lord Most High and Merciful.
I have been united to him
because the lover has found the Beloved.

Because I love him who is the Son,
I shall become a son.
Indeed, he who is joined to him who is immortal
truly will be immortal.
And he who delights in the Life
will become living.

This is the Spirit of the Lord, which is not false,
which teaches the sons of men to know his ways.
Be wise and understanding and vigilant.
Alleluia!

“The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.”

Pope Leo XIII