Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsLuke 15
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Luke 15 in the BibleLuke 15:10
Before the Angels.
[1] The Angels and other celestial spirits in heaven, do rejoice at every sinner's conversion: they know then and have care of us, yea our hearts and inward repentance be open to them: how then can they not hear our prayers? And betwixt Angels and the blessed souls of Saints there is no difference in this case [2], the one being as highly exalted as the other and as near God, in whom and by whom only they see and know our affairs, as the other.
- 1 The Angels and Saints know our hearts.
- 2 Mt. 22, 30.
Luke 15:23
The fatted calf.
◦ This feasting and festivity (saith S. Augustine li. 2. qu. Evang. c. 33. to. 4. ) are now celebrated throughout the whole world the Church being dilated and spread: for, that calf, in the body and blood of our Lord, is both offered to the Father, and also feedeth the whole house. And as the calf signifieth the B. Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, so the first stole may signify our innocency restored in baptism, and the rest, other graces and gifts given us in the other Sacraments.
- ◦ The B. Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar.
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Luke 15:7
Than upon ninety nine just.
◦ Neither God, nor the Saints in heaven, nor men in earth do for all that esteem more of penitent sinners, than they do of them that continue just and godly: though by the sudden motion and present affection of joy that man taketh and expresseth in such alteration and new fallen good, it be here signified that the conversion of every sinner is exceeding acceptable to God, and giveth his Saints new cause of joy and thanks-giving to God in another kind than for the continuance of the just.