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The first reading from Jeremiah, chapter 20, verses 10-13.
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I hear the whisperings of many, terror on every side, denounce, let us denounce him.
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All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine.
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He will be trapped, then we can prevail and take our vengeance on him.
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But the Lord is with me like a mighty champion.
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My persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.
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In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion.
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O Lord of hosts, you who test the just, who probe mind and heart, let me witness the
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vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause.
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Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for He has rescued the life of the poor, from the power
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Jeremiah says, they are seeking an opportunity to ruin me, as the Pharisees did our savior.
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Let me witness the vengeance you take on them.
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This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill will, but zeal of justice.
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He expresses in a human manner a future punishment.
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God having shown that His prayer should be heard, He gives thanks, and thus shows that
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what He is going to say precedes not from impatience.
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The Gospel from John chapter 10 verses 31 through 42.
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The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus.
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Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works for my father, for which of these
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are you trying to stone me?
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The Jews answered him, we are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy.
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You, a man, are making yourself God.
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Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, I said you are gods.
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If it calls them gods to whom the Word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside,
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can you say that the one whom the father is consecrated and sent into the world, blasphemes
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because I said I am the Son of God?
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If I do not perform my father's works, do not believe me.
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But if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may
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realize and understand that the father is in me and I am in the Father.
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And they tried again to arrest him, but he escaped from their power.
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He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.
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Many came to him and said, John performs no sign, but everything John said about this
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And many there began to believe in him.
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They took up stones because said they, being a man, they'll make us thyself God.
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The Jews, says St. Augustine, understood well enough what the Aryans will not understand.
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That from Christ's words it followed that he was one in the same God with the eternal
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The Jews in opposition to our Savior's doctrine took up stones to destroy him in order
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that he might preach no more to them.
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So heretics at the present day exercised the odium of their impiety against the same Lord
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by perverting his holy doctrines, and as much as in them lies, pulling him in his servants
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down from the glorious seats of heavenly bliss.
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So says St. Augustine.
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I said you are gods.
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This is addressed to princes established to govern the people of God.
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They are the image of God on earth by the authority they exercise and which they receive
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Christ stops the mouths of the Jews by an argument which they could not answer that sometimes
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they were called gods who acted by God's authority.
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But then he immediately declares that it is not in this sense only that he is God, first
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because he has been sanctified by the Father, which St. Augustine and others understand of
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that infinite sanctification which he has necessarily by always proceeding from the Father.
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Others expounded of a greater sanctity and fullness of grace above all other saints given
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to him even as he was man.
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Secondly, he adds at the same time and confirms what he had often told them that he was the
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Son of God sent into the world, that his work showed that he was in the Father and the
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By this they saw that he was far from recalling or contradicting what he had said before.
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And therefore they sought to apprehend him and put him to death for blasphemy.
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He escaped out of their hands, perhaps making himself invisible or hindering them by his
