Judith lectio (Judith 8,1.9,1.10,1-3.5-10.12,20-13,1-2.4 - 8.10-11)
8, [1] In those days he was aware of the situation Judith daughter of Merari, the son of Oks, son of Joseph, son of Oziel, the son of Elkie , son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, son of Rafain, son of Achitob, son of Elijah, the son of Hilkiah, son of Eliab, the son of Nathaniel, son of Salamiel son Sarasadai of the son of Israel.
9, [1] Then Judith fell on his face, and scattered ashes on his head and put the bag in the closet was covered under and hour when it was offered in the temple of God in Jerusalem, the incense of the evening , Judith prayed aloud the Lord.
10, [1] When Judith had ceased to plead with the God of Israel, and had finished speaking all these words, [2] rose from prostration, he called his servant and went down particularly in the house where he used to pass the days of Saturdays and parties. [3] [...] put on his clothes party, who had used when her husband was alive Manasseh. [5] And he gave to her maid a bottle of wine cruet of oil, also filled a bag of toasted flour, dried figs and loaves of bread and pure, made a bundle of all these containers, placed it on his shoulders. [6] Then they went out the door and found the city of Bethulia ready at Uzziah and the elders of the city, Cabri and Carmi. [7] These people, when they saw transformed in appearance and changed his clothes, are very admiring of her beauty and said, "[8] The God of our fathers to give you please find and complete what you have agreed to do, the pride of Israel, and for the exaltation of Jerusalem. " [9] And she leaned over to worship God and said to them: "Let me open the door of the city and I will go to give fulfillment to the words cards that have extended to me. "Those young people to guard gave order to open them as requested. [10] So they went and Judith: it alone and the servant he had with him. From the city followed the men with their looks while down the mountain, until he crossed the valley and could no longer see her.
12 [20] Holofernes delight of her presence and plenty of drank as much wine as he had never drank only a day since he was in the world.
13 [1] When it grew dark, his servants made haste to retreat. Bagoas closed from outside the tent and the guards away from the sight of his master, and each went to his bed, but in fact they were all weakened, because drinking was excessive. [2] Judith was left alone in the tent, and Holofernes stretched out on the couch, drunk. [4] [...] Judith fermatasi the couch at him, said in his heart: "Lord, the God of all power, look at this gracious work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. [5 ] It 's time to think about your legacy and to get my plan for the destruction of the enemies who have risen against us. " [6] She went to the bedpost that he was at the head of Holofernes, broke off his sword, [7] She came close to the bed, grabbed him by the hair of his head and said, "Give me strength, Lord God Israel, at this time. " [8] And as hard as she could hit him twice in the neck and cut off his head. [10] [...] both came out, according to their use, for prayer, crossed the field, did a tour in the valley, then climbed the mountain to Betulia and reached the city gates.
[11] Judith cried out to guard the door: "Open, open now the gate: God is with us, our God, to exercise its power even in power against Israel and its enemies, as demonstrated today. "
A very long song, but that should be read from the first chapter. The Book of Judith, in fact, contains the story of the victory over the enemies of the chosen people, thanks intervention of a woman, Judith. What words are in vocational
this woman, a young widow, beautiful, wise, pious and resolute, that the first will to fight against the inertia of his people and then against the Assyrian army?
The presentation of this woman is done by a genealogy. In Jewish culture comes from the organization to clan and tribe. Most of the rights and privileges of the person were an individual to his membership in clans and tribes.
The genealogy is so important because it presents itself as a written document of this membership (see Gen 5.1 to 11; Es 6.14 to 24; 1Chr 1-9; Ezr 2.59 to 63).
front of the verses of the lineage Judith has to wonder: Who is Judith? Where you from?
The author has simply picked up some random memory to complete the album of life, but from the beginning forward the testimony of the faith of a people. The details of history escape us, but God is at work. First
ahead two names that are a symbol of a message: Betulia and Judith. Both are symbols of something. Betulia means "House of the Lord" and Judith "Judea".
In this first verse we have a noun that has a daughter Judith, followed by 14 other masculine nouns.
In the story of Judith, I think this word is the key to us today. The son in the Old Testament is seen as a gift from God (Gen. 1:28; Dt 28.4 to 11; Is 54.1, Ps 128.3). The translation of the Bible Cei ends this verse, unlike the Vulgate, with "son of Israel" that in the translation of the Bible is translated with interfaith "Jacob, founder of the Israeli people.
We can grasp a thought for us that should not be understood in terms of generation, but of choice.
Israel and the Israelites, especially the pious people, calling themselves sons of God (Ex 4:22, Isaiah 1:2). but the son of God and for the people of the Bible, is not to be seen on the side of nature, or in the natural relationship between God and man (cf. Mt 5:9), but in the election by God (cf. Hos 2) and in the work of man.
The Jewish wisdom tradition and gives great importance to the lives of people right, pie. The Hebrew text of Sir conclusion of this 4.1-10's promise: "And God will call you son and will be merciful to you (you will grace) and will save you from the grave (destruction)."
With these words of promise, everyone can find his way, his call every day that the Lord speaks.
And that's what Judith did, this extraordinary woman who has shown faith in the Lord in the darkest hours of life. There are four points to guide, together with this woman, our vocation: 1. trust in God, 2, the value of prayer, 3. fidelity to the Word (the Law of Moses), 4. the power of God
These four points are not only part of the exodus of the Israelites, but also that of each of us. In this story, God is continually present with a special providence that demonstrates his love and loyalty for the people, despite his resistance.
We, like Judith, are chosen directly by God for a mission of service in favor of the chosen people, becoming an instrument of divine providence, the bearers of gifts, the servants of God among his people.
Judith is also a vocation as a model act for the good of all people. his vocation is oriented a mission, of which God is the first support; vocation and mission are made from genuine miracles that God accompanies them because all the people might believe. Judith
Faith is the faith of a people (remember that his name means "Jewess"), and say faith is to believe in propositions, but to a person who for Christians is Christ.
Instead of Holofernes that marked his life from the Word which says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, which puts flesh his support and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, when the well does not see it, the parched places in the desert in a salt land where no one can live "(Jer 17.5-6).
The Christian is a person who has a new way of living and that makes his faith a set of gestures of worship or moralistic impositions, but the fundamental perspective, the logic underlying his whole life.
When you accept the faith, not only accepts a message, you do not accept an ideology, a set of values \u200b\u200band methods are organized according to the canons of a particular culture, but the same commitment to Christ, choosing him, his person, his living presence in history. And it is as far as trying to believe, that is to "trust in God," which warns the shocking invasion that God does in her life with the violence of his greatness, that goes beyond time and space, giving new identities to each of his children.
This will, then, the new Betulia, where the new temple of the Lord pours forth the acua living for all peoples.
question
1. From reading the Bible is clear that God calls first, and that, when called, God is faithful. What does it mean to say that the vocation from God?
2. Your life is guided by the vocational four points mentioned, as it was for Judith?
3. Your faith in God makes you do every day of the "new steps"? What?
4. You are in the world, such as Judith, defending and promoting life?
prayer
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life, whom shall I fear? If
against an army encamp me, my heart shall not fear;
if war break out against me, yet I trust.
One thing I ask of the Lord, that will I seek:
live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to taste the sweetness of the Lord and to behold his temple.
He gives me a place of refuge in times of trouble.
He hides me in his house, me high on a cliff.
And now he raised his head above the enemies who surround me;
tent I will offer sacrifices of joy in his house,
sing hymns of joy to the Lord (Psalm 27).
actio
Try to listen - read - carefully and look for this poem in your life, discount rate:
For that Self deeper
because nothing is lost because nothing is in vain.
you listening? For that piece of heaven
buried in each
also because it can open up my ...
because I could be there.
you listening? (Fornarina Lucia).
9, [1] Then Judith fell on his face, and scattered ashes on his head and put the bag in the closet was covered under and hour when it was offered in the temple of God in Jerusalem, the incense of the evening , Judith prayed aloud the Lord.
10, [1] When Judith had ceased to plead with the God of Israel, and had finished speaking all these words, [2] rose from prostration, he called his servant and went down particularly in the house where he used to pass the days of Saturdays and parties. [3] [...] put on his clothes party, who had used when her husband was alive Manasseh. [5] And he gave to her maid a bottle of wine cruet of oil, also filled a bag of toasted flour, dried figs and loaves of bread and pure, made a bundle of all these containers, placed it on his shoulders. [6] Then they went out the door and found the city of Bethulia ready at Uzziah and the elders of the city, Cabri and Carmi. [7] These people, when they saw transformed in appearance and changed his clothes, are very admiring of her beauty and said, "[8] The God of our fathers to give you please find and complete what you have agreed to do, the pride of Israel, and for the exaltation of Jerusalem. " [9] And she leaned over to worship God and said to them: "Let me open the door of the city and I will go to give fulfillment to the words cards that have extended to me. "Those young people to guard gave order to open them as requested. [10] So they went and Judith: it alone and the servant he had with him. From the city followed the men with their looks while down the mountain, until he crossed the valley and could no longer see her.
12 [20] Holofernes delight of her presence and plenty of drank as much wine as he had never drank only a day since he was in the world.
13 [1] When it grew dark, his servants made haste to retreat. Bagoas closed from outside the tent and the guards away from the sight of his master, and each went to his bed, but in fact they were all weakened, because drinking was excessive. [2] Judith was left alone in the tent, and Holofernes stretched out on the couch, drunk. [4] [...] Judith fermatasi the couch at him, said in his heart: "Lord, the God of all power, look at this gracious work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. [5 ] It 's time to think about your legacy and to get my plan for the destruction of the enemies who have risen against us. " [6] She went to the bedpost that he was at the head of Holofernes, broke off his sword, [7] She came close to the bed, grabbed him by the hair of his head and said, "Give me strength, Lord God Israel, at this time. " [8] And as hard as she could hit him twice in the neck and cut off his head. [10] [...] both came out, according to their use, for prayer, crossed the field, did a tour in the valley, then climbed the mountain to Betulia and reached the city gates.
[11] Judith cried out to guard the door: "Open, open now the gate: God is with us, our God, to exercise its power even in power against Israel and its enemies, as demonstrated today. "
A very long song, but that should be read from the first chapter. The Book of Judith, in fact, contains the story of the victory over the enemies of the chosen people, thanks intervention of a woman, Judith. What words are in vocational
this woman, a young widow, beautiful, wise, pious and resolute, that the first will to fight against the inertia of his people and then against the Assyrian army?
The presentation of this woman is done by a genealogy. In Jewish culture comes from the organization to clan and tribe. Most of the rights and privileges of the person were an individual to his membership in clans and tribes.
The genealogy is so important because it presents itself as a written document of this membership (see Gen 5.1 to 11; Es 6.14 to 24; 1Chr 1-9; Ezr 2.59 to 63).
front of the verses of the lineage Judith has to wonder: Who is Judith? Where you from?
The author has simply picked up some random memory to complete the album of life, but from the beginning forward the testimony of the faith of a people. The details of history escape us, but God is at work. First
ahead two names that are a symbol of a message: Betulia and Judith. Both are symbols of something. Betulia means "House of the Lord" and Judith "Judea".
In this first verse we have a noun that has a daughter Judith, followed by 14 other masculine nouns.
In the story of Judith, I think this word is the key to us today. The son in the Old Testament is seen as a gift from God (Gen. 1:28; Dt 28.4 to 11; Is 54.1, Ps 128.3). The translation of the Bible Cei ends this verse, unlike the Vulgate, with "son of Israel" that in the translation of the Bible is translated with interfaith "Jacob, founder of the Israeli people.
We can grasp a thought for us that should not be understood in terms of generation, but of choice.
Israel and the Israelites, especially the pious people, calling themselves sons of God (Ex 4:22, Isaiah 1:2). but the son of God and for the people of the Bible, is not to be seen on the side of nature, or in the natural relationship between God and man (cf. Mt 5:9), but in the election by God (cf. Hos 2) and in the work of man.
The Jewish wisdom tradition and gives great importance to the lives of people right, pie. The Hebrew text of Sir conclusion of this 4.1-10's promise: "And God will call you son and will be merciful to you (you will grace) and will save you from the grave (destruction)."
With these words of promise, everyone can find his way, his call every day that the Lord speaks.
And that's what Judith did, this extraordinary woman who has shown faith in the Lord in the darkest hours of life. There are four points to guide, together with this woman, our vocation: 1. trust in God, 2, the value of prayer, 3. fidelity to the Word (the Law of Moses), 4. the power of God
These four points are not only part of the exodus of the Israelites, but also that of each of us. In this story, God is continually present with a special providence that demonstrates his love and loyalty for the people, despite his resistance.
We, like Judith, are chosen directly by God for a mission of service in favor of the chosen people, becoming an instrument of divine providence, the bearers of gifts, the servants of God among his people.
Judith is also a vocation as a model act for the good of all people. his vocation is oriented a mission, of which God is the first support; vocation and mission are made from genuine miracles that God accompanies them because all the people might believe. Judith
Faith is the faith of a people (remember that his name means "Jewess"), and say faith is to believe in propositions, but to a person who for Christians is Christ.
Instead of Holofernes that marked his life from the Word which says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, which puts flesh his support and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, when the well does not see it, the parched places in the desert in a salt land where no one can live "(Jer 17.5-6).
The Christian is a person who has a new way of living and that makes his faith a set of gestures of worship or moralistic impositions, but the fundamental perspective, the logic underlying his whole life.
When you accept the faith, not only accepts a message, you do not accept an ideology, a set of values \u200b\u200band methods are organized according to the canons of a particular culture, but the same commitment to Christ, choosing him, his person, his living presence in history. And it is as far as trying to believe, that is to "trust in God," which warns the shocking invasion that God does in her life with the violence of his greatness, that goes beyond time and space, giving new identities to each of his children.
This will, then, the new Betulia, where the new temple of the Lord pours forth the acua living for all peoples.
question
1. From reading the Bible is clear that God calls first, and that, when called, God is faithful. What does it mean to say that the vocation from God?
2. Your life is guided by the vocational four points mentioned, as it was for Judith?
3. Your faith in God makes you do every day of the "new steps"? What?
4. You are in the world, such as Judith, defending and promoting life?
prayer
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life, whom shall I fear? If
against an army encamp me, my heart shall not fear;
if war break out against me, yet I trust.
One thing I ask of the Lord, that will I seek:
live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to taste the sweetness of the Lord and to behold his temple.
He gives me a place of refuge in times of trouble.
He hides me in his house, me high on a cliff.
And now he raised his head above the enemies who surround me;
tent I will offer sacrifices of joy in his house,
sing hymns of joy to the Lord (Psalm 27).
actio
Try to listen - read - carefully and look for this poem in your life, discount rate:
For that Self deeper
because nothing is lost because nothing is in vain.
you listening? For that piece of heaven
buried in each
also because it can open up my ...
because I could be there.
you listening? (Fornarina Lucia).
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