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Catholic lectionary for 3 March 2008

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Isaiah, Chapter 65,  verses 17-21

17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

John, Chapter 4,  verses 43-54

43 He departeth into Galilee, and healeth the Ruler's son that lay sick at Capernaum
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
Read more:John, Chapter 5

NOTES

 

God opens through the prophet Isaiah a remarkable detail of his plan: He intends to continue His creation, these - earth and heaven are ephemera, this world will pass a certain way till the end, but life doesn’t stop on it... 

 

A few centuries before the first coming of Christ into the world, half-opens to the prophet Isaiah God's plan concerning the end of time. This world, which we know, created by God, is not yet definitive; it does not still correspond to the Creator’s words: "very good", of which we read at the beginning of the book of Genesis... 

 

The healing of the court official's son was the first in the series of healings performed by Christ, and without taking this into account we cannot assess the faith of the boy's father, bordering on prophetic insight. The Capernaum official risked turning to Jesus with a request for healing when... 

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