Blessed are those servants whom the master, on his return, shall find watching.
Evangelium Luc 12:35-40
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis: Sint lumbi vestri præcincti, et lucérnæ ardéntes in mánibus vestris, et vos símiles homínibus exspectántibus dóminum suum, quando revertátur a núptiis: ut, cum vénerit et pulsáverit, conféstim apériant ei. Beáti servi illi, quos, cum vénerit dóminus, invénerit vigilántes: amen, dico vobis, quod præcínget se, et fáciet illos discúmbere, et tránsiens ministrábit illis. Et si vénerit in secúnda vigília, et si in tértia vigília vénerit, et ita invénerit, beáti sunt servi illi. Hoc autem scitóte, quóniam, si sciret paterfamílias, qua hora fur veníret, vigiláret útique, et non síneret pérfodi domum suam. Et vos estóte paráti, quia, qua hora non putátis, Fílius hóminis véniet.
Gospel Luke 12:35-40
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples, Let your loins be girt about and your lamps burning, and you yourselves like men waiting for their master’s return from the wedding; so that when he comes and knocks, they may straightway open to him. Blessed are those servants whom the master, on his return, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, he will gird himself, and will make them recline at table, and will come and serve them. And if he comes in the second watch, and if in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But of this be assured, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would certainly have watched, and not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because at an hour that you do not expect, the Son of Man is coming.
OMELIA DI DON ENRICO RONCAGLIA
Oggi celebriamo la festa di San Domenico, fondatore dell’ordine dei predicatori domenicani.
Il suo motto era la vita povera e in preghiera,nonche’ la predicazione e l’evangelizzazione. All’epoca le eresie, specialmente in Francia, imperversavano.
Il suo simbolo e’ la fiaccola della lucerna. Simbolo della santita’ della vita, ma anche della sapienza (la lucerna) accesa con la preghiera del Rosario. La sua missione: portare la sapienza e la parola di Dio ai cuori semplici recando in mano la corona del santo Rosario.
Sia Lodato Gesu’ Cristo!
HOMILY BY DON ENRICO RONCAGLIA
Today we celebrate the feast of St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican order of preachers. His motto was life in poverty and in prayer, as well as preaching and evangelization. At the time, heresies, especially in France, were rampant. Its symbol is the torch of the lamp. Symbol of the sanctity of life, but also of wisdom (the lamp) lit with the prayer of the Rosary. His mission: to bring the wisdom and the word of God to simple hearts by holding the crown of the Holy Rosary.
Praised be Jesus Christ!