SCRUTATIO SCRIPTURAE
A Scrutatio for the 5th Sunday of the CHRISTIAN SEASON OF EPIPHANY
Readings from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer
Readings from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer
I Kings 19:9-18 / Psalm 27 / II Peter 1:16-21 / Mark 9:2-9
Readings for the Pauline/Vatican II Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Leviticus 13:1-2 and 44-46 / Psalm 32:1-2, 5 and 11 / I Corinthians 10:31—11:1 / Mark 1:40-45
Quinquagesima Sunday
Readings for the Tridentine Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Introit: Psalm 31:2-3 and 1
Epistle: I Corinthians 13:1-13
Gradual: Psalm 77:14-15
Gospel
Luke 18:31-43
Offertory:
Offertory:
Psalm 119:12-13
Communion Antiphon:
Psalm 78:29-30
From the passage from the commentary on the Diatessaron (a Gospel harmony used as the standard Gospel text in the liturgy of at least some sections of the Syrian Church) by the valiant Deacon of Nissibis (modern day Nusaybin) and Doctor of our Holy Mother Church, Mar Aprêm Sûryāyâ (Ephrem the Syrian), entitled:
GOD’S WORD IS AN INEXHAUSTIBLE SPRING OF LIFE
Lord, who can comprehend even one of your words? We lose more of it than we grasp, like those who drink from a living spring. For God’s word offers different facets according to the capacity of the listener, and the Lord has portrayed his message in many colors, so that whoever gazes upon it can see in it what suits him. Within it he has buried manifold treasures, so that each of us might grow rich in seeking them out.
The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. As the Apostle says: They ate spiritual food and they drank spiritual drink.
And so whenever anyone discovers some part of the treasure, he should not think that he has exhausted God’s word. Instead he should feel that this is all that he was able to find of the wealth contained in it. Nor should he say that the word is weak and sterile or look down on it simply because this portion was all that he happened to find. But precisely because he could not capture it all he should give thanks for its riches.
Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty man is happy when he is drinking, and he is not depressed because he cannot exhaust the spring. So let this spring quench your thirst, and not your thirst the spring. For if you can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring, then when you thirst again you can drink from it once more; but if when your thirst is sated the spring is also dried up, then your victory would turn to your own harm.
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