Dominica XV Post Pentecosten II. Septembris ~ II. classis: The 15th Sunday after Pentecost

 Dominica XV Post Pentecosten II. Septembris ~ II. classis: The 15th Sunday after Pentecost

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

44th Discourse on the Words of the Lord

That her son was called again to life was the joy of that widowed mother; that souls of men are every day called to life is the joy of our Mother the Church. He was dead in body, they have been dead in mind. His death was outward, and was outwardly bewailed; theirs inward. Death has been neither mourned for, nor seen. But He has sought for them, Who has seen that they are dead, and He only has seen that they are dead, Who has been able to make them alive. If He had not come to raise the dead, the Apostle not have said: "Awake, thou that sleeps, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

Ecclésiam tuam, Dómine, miserátio continuáta mundet et múniat: et quia sine te non potest salva consístere; tuo semper múnere gubernétur.

Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
R. Amen.

O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church, and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succor, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R. Amen.