October 2 - Thursday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Neh.8:1-12; Ps.19:8-11; Lk.10:1-12) "They understood the words that had been expounded to them." What a blessed day we hear of in our first reading. And what a blessed reception the Word of God finds in the hearing of the people! For "the whole people gathered as one man" and "listened attentively to the book of the law" of Moses as "Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that had been made for the occasion" and "read out of the book from daybreak until midday." And we know that all the people indeed understood the wonder of what was read to their humble, obedient hearts, "for all the…
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