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| Disciples Jesus calls Levi |
Saturday of the First week in Ordinary Time
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
2:13-17.
15 January 2011
Saints Maurus and Placid, the first Benedict
Oblates. Memorial
History and Hagiography are fertile imagination.
The deep roots are in St. Benedict and St. Gregory the Great.
More specific is the 59th Chapter of the Rule of Saint
Benedict.
Quote …
The Bible and Liturgy roots of the first Benedictine Oblates of the young
boys of Maurus and Placid were offered as the oblata on the altar.
The Biblical and Eucharistic context is in
the Gospel about Levi, named in Mark and Luke, called Matthew in his Gospel.
Mk. 2:14. ‘Jesus went out along the sea. All the crowd
came to him and he taught them. As he passed by, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus,
sitting at the customs post. Jesus said to him,
"Follow me."
And he got up and followed him. . . .’
The disciples Maur and Placid heard that call and followed.
At this Mass, may our response, our oblata
on the altar, “get up and follow the Lord”.
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The Call of Levi
(Matthew)
Mat 9:9-13
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Mar 2:13-17
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Luk 5:27-32
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RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
CHAPTER
LIX
Of
the Sons of Nobles or of Poor Men that are offered
IF
any nobleman shall perchance offer his son to God in the Monastery, let the
parents, should the boy be still in infancy, make for him the written promise
as aforesaid; and together with the oblation let them wrap that promise and
the hand of the child in the altar-cloth and so offer him up.
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