November 8 2009 Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
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1 Kings 17:10-16 (3 Kings DRC)
Douay Rheims Challoner
He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her:
Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying:
Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
And she answered:
As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
And Elias said to her:
Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.
She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.
Responsorial Psalm 145:7-10
DR Challoner Text Only
Who keepeth truth for ever:
who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong:
who giveth food to the hungry.
The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
The Lord enlighteneth the blind.
The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down:
the Lord loveth the just.
The Lord keepeth the strangers,
he will support the fatherless and the widow:
and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
The Lord shall reign for ever:
thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
Hebrews 9:24-28
Haydock NT
For Jesus hath not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies every year with the blood of others: For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this the judgment: So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 12:38-44
Haydock New Testament
And he said to them in his doctrine:
Beware of the Scribes, who love to walk in long robes, and to be saluted in the market-place, And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues, and to have the highest places at suppers: Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.
And Jesus sitting over-against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. And calling his disciples together, he saith to them:
Amen, I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury. For all they did cast in of their abundance: but she, of her want, cast in all she had, even her whole living.
Haydock Commentary 1 Kings 17:10-16
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
- Ver. 13. First. He puts the faith of the widow to a severe trial; and the gospel requires nothing more perfect than what she practised. The true faith, which she then received, was her first and most precious recompense; and we shall soon see, that her guest drew down blessings upon her. C.
- Ver. 14. Until, nor for some time afterwards; otherwise they would still have been in danger of perishing, as the corn could not grow immediately. Salien, A.C. 929.
Haydock Commentary Hebrews 9:24-28
- Ver. 25. Should offer himself, &c. He takes notice that Christ, by virtue of his sacrifice, and his dying once on the cross, satisfied for the sins of all men that ever were from the beginning of the world. It was decreed from eternity that the Son of God should come to redeem mankind: the ransom that was not yet paid was accepted; and all might be saved who believed in their Redeemer, who was to come, and who, by the graces that God offered and gave them, lived well. Wi. — Christ shall never more offer himself in sacrifice, in that violent, painful, and bloody manner, nor can there be any occasion for it; since by that one sacrifice upon the cross, he has furnished the full ransom, redemption, and remedy for all the sins of the world. But this hinders not that he may offer himself in the sacred mysteries in an unbloody manner, for the daily application of that one sacrifice of redemption to our souls. Ch.
- Ver. 26. He came at the end of the ages, as it were in the last age of the world, to the putting away or abrogating of sin. Wi. — Though less, viz. a single tear, might have satisfied the justice of God, nothing less than his own precious blood could satisfy the charity of Jesus Christ. By his death, as S. Austin observes, Christ has bound the devil in a chain, so that he can tempt us no further than we are able to resist: he may bark, he may tempt, he may solicit us; but he can bite none, except those that wilfully cast themselves within his reach. Serm. 1. post Trin.
- Ver. 28. To exhaust the sins of many. That is, of all, according to the style of the Scriptures. When he came first, he took upon him the load of our sins; but at his second coming, at the end of the world, he will come in a quite different manner, not as laden with our sins, not after the similitude of a sinful man, not to redeem us, but with great power and majesty to judge all men. Wi. — To exhaust. That is, to empty or draw out to the very bottom, by a plentiful and perfect redemption. Ch.
Haydock Commentary Mark 12:38-44
- Ver. 43. God accepts alms, if they are corresponding to each one’s abilities; and the more able a man is, the more must he bestow in charities. The widow’s mite was very acceptable to God, and very meritorious to herself; because though small the offering considered in itself, it was great considering her extreme indigence.
- Ver. 44. But she, of her want,[2] or indigence, out of what she wanted to subsist by, as appeareth by the Greek. Wi.




Daily Bible Readings Monday November 9 2009 Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Posted by Bob on November 9, 2009
November 9 2009 Monday Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Saint of the Day – Dedication of St. John Lateran
About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.
Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/110909.shtml
Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Douay-Rheims Challoner
And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar. And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.
And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come. And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.
Responsorial Psalm 45:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 (Ps 46 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only
Our God is our refuge and strength:
a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.
Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled;
and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.
The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful:
the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.
God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved:
God will help it in the morning early.
The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.
Come and behold ye the works of the Lord:
what wonders he hath done upon earth
1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17
Haydock NT
You are God’s building. According to the grace of God, that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For no one can lay another foundation, but that which is laid: which is Christ Jesus.
Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? But if any man violate the temple of God: him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 2:13-22
Haydock New Testament
And the Pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem: And he found in the temple those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the changers of mony sitting. And when he had made a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and he poured out the changers’ money, and the tables he overthrew. And he said to them that sold doves:
And his disciples remembered that it was written:
The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
The Jews therefore answered, and said to him:
What sign dost thou shew to us, seeing thou dost these things?
Jesus answered, and said to them:
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
The Jews then said:
Six and forty years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
But he spoke of the temple of his body. When, therefore, he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
Haydock Commentary Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
Haydock Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17
Haydock Commentary John 2:13-22
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