The woman who lifted up her voice

Saint Luke - Chapter 11

The woman who lifted up her voice. J-J Tissot

[27] Factum est autem, cum haec diceret : extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba dixit illi : Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quae suxisti.
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.

[28] At ille dixit : Quinimmo beati, qui audiunt verbum Dei et custodiunt illud.
But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

[29] Turbis autem concurrentibus coepit dicere : Generatio haec, generatio nequam est : signum quaerit, et signum non dabitur ei, nisi signum Jonae prophetae.
And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

[30] Nam sicut fuit Jonas signum Ninivitis, ita erit et Filius hominis generationi isti.
For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

[31] Regina austri surget in judicio cum viris generationis hujus, et condemnabit illos : quia venit a finibus terrae audire sapientiam Salomonis : et ecce plus quam Salomon hic.
The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold more than Solomon here.

[32] Viri Ninivitae surgent in judicio cum generatione hac, et condemnabunt illam : quia poenitentiam egerunt ad praedicationem Jonae, et ecce plus quam Jonas hic.
The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas; and behold more than Jonas here.

[33] Nemo lucernam accendit, et in abscondito ponit, neque sub modio : sed supra candelabrum, ut qui ingrediuntur, lumen videant.
No man lighteth a candle, and putteth it in a hidden place, nor under a bushel; but upon a candlestick, that they that come in, may see the light.

[34] Lucerna corporis tui est oculus tuus. Si oculus tuus fuerit simplex, totum corpus tuum lucidum erit : si autem nequam fuerit, etiam corpus tuum tenebrosum erit.
The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome.

[35] Vide ergo ne lumen quod in te est, tenebrae sint.
Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkness.

[36] Si ergo corpus tuum totum lucidum fuerit, non habens aliquam partem tenebrarum, erit lucidum totum, et sicut lucerna fulgoris illuminabit te.
If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness; the whole shall be lightsome; and as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam