Daily Bible Readings Commentary October 1 2007 Monday 26th Week Ordinary Time.

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October 1 2007 Monday 26^th Week Ordinary Time.

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The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Catholic Church, 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.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/100107.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Zacharias 8:1-8 (Zechariah 8:1-8)
Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible text from SacredBible.org

1 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a great jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for her.
3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain.
4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.
6 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?
7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.
8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in justice.

Haydock Commentary Zacharias 8:1-8 (Zechariah 8:1-8)

• Ver. 2. Jealous for her, treating her as a spouse, (C.) and not neglecting her as one incorrigible. H.
• Ver. 3. Truth. Idols and infidelity shall reign there no more. The Jews were more faithful after the captivity. But the Church of Christ is alone perfectly chaste. C.
• Ver. 6. Days. If no prospect of such happiness now appear, is anything difficult to Omnipotence? H. Lu. i. 37.
• Ver. 7. Sun, from Chaldea and the islands. This chiefly regards the Christian Church. C.—Assyria and Chaldea lay to the north. The promises are too great for the synagogue. W.
• Ver. 8. Justice. I will fulfil my promises, if they adhere to virtue. C.

Gospel According to Luke 9:46-50

Haydock New Testament

46 And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be greater.
47 But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
48 And said to them:

Whoever shall receive this child in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me. For he that is the least among you all, he is the greatest.

49 And John answering, said:

Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.

50 And Jesus said to him:

Forbid him not: for he that is not against you, is for you.

Haydock Commentary Luke 9:46-50

• Ver. 46. And there entered a thought, &c. It is improbable that all the disciples had fallen into this fault: but the evangelist, that he might not point out any in particular as guilty of it, says indiscriminately, that this thought had entered among them. S. Cyril. ex D. Thom.
• Ver. 49. We forbade him. S. John having the most love for his Lord, and being particularly beloved by him, thought all were to be excluded from these gifts, who were not obedient to his divine Master. S. Aug.—But we must remember, that not the minister is the author of these miracles, but the grace which is in him, who performs these wonders by virtue of the power of Christ. S. Cyril.—How wonderful is the power of Christ, who by his grace works miracles in the persons of the unworthy, and those that are not disciples; as men are sanctified by the priest, though the priest should not be in the state of grace! Theophylact.
• Ver. 50. Forbid him not. Our Lord is not moved by this event, to teach us that perfect virtue entertains no thoughts of revenge, and that anger cannot be found where the fulness of charity reigns. The weak must not be driven away, but assisted. Let the breast of the religious man be ever unmoved by passion, and the mind of the generous undisturbed by desires of revenge. S. Ambrose.