MAY 10 - THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 16,20-23a. Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; …More
MAY 10 - THE GOSPEL
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 16,20-23a.
Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you."
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Saint Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662)
monk and theologian
Two hundred chapters on theology, St Maximus the Confessor VI:7-8
Your grief will turn to joy (Jn 16:20)
Since the pleasure of the senses gives rise to affliction, that is to say, the pain of the soul (for the two are the same thing for each other), the pleasure of the soul naturally generates affliction, that is to say, pain of the senses. He who seeks the life he hopes for, the life of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, through the resurrection of the dead, in the inheritance kept in heaven free from all corruption, from all defilement and from all blight (cf. 1 Pet 1,4), has in his soul a rejoicing and an ineffable joy: he is continually radiant, illuminated by the hope of good things to come, but he has in the flesh and in the senses an affliction, the sorrows which come to him temptations of all kinds and the suffering they inflict on him.
For pleasure and pain accompany all virtue. The pain of the flesh, when it is deprived of the pleasant senses. And the pleasure of the soul, when it rejoices in the delights of reasons in spirit, pure of all sensible things. It is necessary that during present life the intelligence, now afflicted in the flesh - this is what I think - because of the numerous sorrows of the trials which befall it for virtue, always rejoices in the soul and is filled with pleasure because of the hope of eternal goods, even if in it the senses are overwhelmed. “For the sufferings of this present time cannot be compared to the glory to come, which must be revealed in us” (Rom 8:18), says the divine Apostle.
breski1
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 16,20-23a.
Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Share the Gospel on Facebook
Saint Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662)
monk and theologian
Two hundred chapters on theology, St Maximus the Confessor VI:7-8
Your grief will turn to joy (Jn 16:20)
Since the pleasure of the senses gives rise to affliction, that is to say, the pain of the soul (for the two are the same thing for each other), the pleasure of the soul naturally generates affliction, that is to say, pain of the senses. He who seeks the life he hopes for, the life of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, through the resurrection of the dead, in the inheritance kept in heaven free from all corruption, from all defilement and from all blight (cf. 1 Pet 1,4), has in his soul a rejoicing and an ineffable joy: he is continually radiant, illuminated by the hope of good things to come, but he has in the flesh and in the senses an affliction, the sorrows which come to him temptations of all kinds and the suffering they inflict on him.
For pleasure and pain accompany all virtue. The pain of the flesh, when it is deprived of the pleasant senses. And the pleasure of the soul, when it rejoices in the delights of reasons in spirit, pure of all sensible things. It is necessary that during present life the intelligence, now afflicted in the flesh - this is what I think - because of the numerous sorrows of the trials which befall it for virtue, always rejoices in the soul and is filled with pleasure because of the hope of eternal goods, even if in it the senses are overwhelmed. “For the sufferings of this present time cannot be compared to the glory to come, which must be revealed in us” (Rom 8:18), says the divine Apostle.