October 1 - Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23; Ps.88:2-8; Lk.9:51-56) “My soul is surfeited with troubles and my life draws near to the netherworld.” After sitting in silence seven days, scraping the boils from his skin, finally, “Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.” Finally he cries out against all his troubles, asking, “Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?” Only so much can mortal man bear, and so Job seeks now only the tranquility of death, wherein “the weary are at rest.” How well our psalm today describes Job’s state, he who is among those “whose path is hidden from them…
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