Daily Readings Wed 22nd Week Ordinary Time Sept 5 2007

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Sept 05 2007 Wednesday 22^nd Week Ordinary Time.

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The readings on this site are not official for the Roman Catholic Church, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the current readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible.

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Colossians 1:1-8 Haydock NT

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother:

² To them who are at Colosse (Colossae), the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus. ³ Grace be to you, and peace from God, our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.

⁴ Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which you have towards all the saints, ⁵ for the hope that is laid up for you in heaven: which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel: ⁶ Which is come to you, as also it is in the whole world, and bringeth forth fruit, and growth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard, and knew the grace of God in truth, ⁷ As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus. ⁸ Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit:

Haydock Commentary Colossians 1:1-8

• Ver. 6. In the whole world; i.e. a great part of it. Wi.—This epistle was written in the year 62, at which time the gospel had spread itself through the whole world by the preaching not only of the apostles, but of their disciples, and by the noise which this new religion made. Calmet.—S. Austin sheweth with S. Paul, that the Church and Christ’s gospel was to grow daily, and to spread all over the world; which cannot stand with what heretics allude of the failure of the Church, nor with their own obscure conventicles. ep. lxxx. ad finem.
• Ver. 7. Of Epaphras, who seems to have been their first apostle, and their bishop. Wi.
• Ver. 8. Your love. Your charity for all men, founded on the love of God. Others understand it of the affection which they had for S. Paul. S. Chrys.

Luke 4:38-44 Haydock NT

³⁸ And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her. ³⁹ And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. ⁴⁰ And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them to him. But he laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. ⁴¹ And devils went out of many, crying out and saying: “Thou art the Son of God.” And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

⁴² And when it was day, going out, he came into a desert place: and the multitudes sought him, and came to him: and they detained him, that he should not depart from them. ⁴³ To whom he said: “I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.” ⁴⁴ And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

Haydock Commentary Luke 4:38-44

• Ver. 38. It is evident that S. Peter was married; but after his call to the apostleship, he left his wife, as S. Jerome writes, in ep. xliii. C. ii. ad Julianum, and l. i. adv. Jovin. See Matt. xix. 29.
• Ver. 40. The evangelist mentions this circumstance, because these distressed people did not dare to bring their sick before that time, either through fear of the Pharisees, or of violating the Sabbath. Origen.
• Ver. 41. It appears, that when the devil expresses himself thus, it is less through conviction than artifice. He suspected the fact; and to certify the same, he said to him in the desert, if you be the Son of God, change these stones into bread. In the same manner by saying here, you are the Son of God, he wished to give him an occasion of explaining himself on the subject. V.—But Jesus Christ would not accept of the testimony of evil spirits, lest he might be suspected of some intelligence with them, to cause himself to be acknowledged to the Son of God. Ibid.
• Ver. 43. From the apparent good dispositions of these people, we might be induced to think, that if Christ had yielded to their solicitations, and remained with them, he could have drawn all to himself; yet he did not choose to do this, but has left us an example worthy our imitation, in seeking out the perishing and strayed sheep; for by the salvation of one soul, our many sins will be remitted. S. Chrys. in cat. Græc. Pat. hom. in Matt.
• Ver. 44. Our divine Redeemer frequented the Jewish synagogue, to shew he was no seducer. If he had inhabited wilds and deserts, it might have been objected to him, that he concealed himself, like an imposter, from the sight of men. S. Chrys. Ibid.