The Second Sunday of the Blessed Month of Tobe

When the Incarnate Word had shown His Divine manifestation to all peoples and nations through the first Sunday Readings, those nations began to recognize this unique Savior through the Readings of the second one; as they began to seek Him, coming from all countries and distant places so that they may be enriched with His salvation, and justified with faith in Him. So, if the first Sunday is to announce the Gentiles to have been accepted, this second Sunday reveals their being justified in person of the Son of God: which is the praise of the church along the month of Tobe and on Theophany feasts: “Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” 

Psalms

To begin comes the Vesper Psalm to reveal the divine salvation to all human-beings: 

“All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.” 

Then the Morning Psalm shows how joyfully and delightfully all humanity are to receive this Savior: 

“The Lord reigns; Let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad!” 

Thus all come to Him through the Liturgy Psalm: 

“To You all flesh will come.” 

So they behold His salvation through the Vesper, rejoice in Him in the Morning, and come to Him through the Liturgy. 

Vesper and Morning Gospels

The Vesper Gospel reveals the true Incarnate Word, and the importance and preciousness of His holy body: 

“… and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.” 

As for the Morning Gospel, therein is shown that all people came to Him from everywhere; shown also is the gift of His salvation given to them: 

“And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude… so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to touch Him. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, ‘You are the Son of God.’” 

The Liturgy Readings

Now the Pauline Epistle reveals the justification of the Gentiles by faith in Christ, as a doorway to salvation; thus unnecessary for them to be first converted to Judaization: 

“Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing… For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.” 

Likewise the Catholicon also emphasizes the importance of the working faith in the Son of God: 

“And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.” 

Therefore the Praxis announces the Jerusalem council resolution of our fathers the apostles of accepting and justifying the Gentiles, without any commitment neither to the law nor to Judaization: 

“To the brethren who are of the Gentiles… greetings. Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls… to whom we gave no such commandments- it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul… For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden”. 

The Liturgy Gospel

Then the Liturgy Gospel comes showing the greatness of the light of the Son of God to whom come all the peoples, even those who are out of the faith –the men of this generation- So if it had been of old that the queen of Sheba had come to Solomon for to hear his wisdom, and if Nineveh had received the preaching of Jonah; how much rather those strange peoples would have to receive Him who is much greater than Jonah and Solomon: 

“The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is hear. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.”