Speaking vanity (Lk 14:26-27, Ps 143:7-8)
| The Latin: Si quis venit ad me, et non odit patrem suum, et matrem, et uxórem, et fílios, et fratres, et soróres, adhuc autem et ánimam suam, non potest meus esse discípulus. Et qui non báiulat crucem suam, et venit post me, non potest meus esse discípulus.Emítte manum tuam de alto : éripe me, et líbera me de aquis multis, de manu filiórum alienórum : quorum os locútum est vanitátem, et déxtera eórum déxtera iniquitátis. |
The English: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. |
| From the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, Apostolicam Actuositatem 4: Following Jesus in His poverty, [the laity] are neither depressed by the lack of temporal goods nor inflated by their abundance; imitating Christ in His humility, they have no obsession for empty honors (cf. Gal. GA 5,26) but seek to please God rather than men, ever ready to leave all things for Christ’s sake. On the Psalm (in green, since I’ve moved into colour), we have Augustine: All of you to-day, if ye had not gathered yourselves together to these divine shows(1) of the word of God, and were not at this hour engaged in them, how great vanities would ye be hearing! “whose mouth hath spoken vanity:” when, in short, would they, speaking vanity, hear you speaking vanity? “And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.” Thanks to Biblia Clerus for the cross-linking. I love that software. |
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