Κοινωνία

SCRUTATIO SCRIPTURAE

Κοινωνία

(koinónia)

COMMUNION

Scrutatio 

for the 

 THE 18^th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME/KINGDOMTIDE/TIME OF THE CHURCH 

Readings from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer

Isaiah 25:1-9 / Psalm 23 / Philippians 4:4-13 / Matthew 22:1-14

Readings for the Pauline/Vatican II Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Isaiah 25:6-10a / Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5 and 6 / Philippians 4:12-14 and 19-20 / Matthew 22:1-14

Readings for the Tridentine Rite of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Introit: Ecclesiasticus/Sirach 36:18 and Psalm 122:1 

Epistle: I Corinthians 1:4-8

Gradual and Alleluia: Psalm 122:1, 7 and 102:15

Gospel 

Matthew 9:1-8

Offertory: Exodus 24:4-5

Communion Antiphon: Psalm 76:11

From RORATE CÆLI:

August 29, 1914: in Taintrux (Vosges, Lorraine), an agonizing French Catholic soldier, in an infirmary bombarded by the Germans in the war front, asks a military chaplain, whom he believes to be a priest in a cassock, for a Crucifix. The chaplain was Chief Rabbi Abraham Bloch, who brings and presents to him the image of the Crucified Lord: moments later, both would be killed by an exploding shell.

The main eyewitness of the incident was Father Jamin, S.J., in whose arms Bloch finally expired.

(Cf. Maurice Barrès, Les diverses familles spirituelles de la France - published in English as The Faith of France.)

"This is the LORD'S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes."

-PSALMS 118:23