Daily Bible Readings Commentary October 12 Friday 27th Week Ordinary Time Catholic Church

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October 12 2007 Friday 27^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/101207.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Joel 1:13-15 & 2:1-2
Douay-Challoner Text from SacredBible.org

13 Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:
15 Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.
1 Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand.
2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years of generation and generation.

Haydock Commentary Joel 1:13-15 &2:1-2

• Ver. 13. Go in to the temple, or sleep on sackcloth. Judith iv. 9. C.
• Ver. 14. Sanctify. Appoint (H.) or proclaim a general fast, as was usual in such emergencies. 3 K. xxi. 9. and 2 Par. xx. 3. Fasting and other good works are calculated to appease God’s wrath. W.
• Ver. 15. Day. Heb. ahah layom: (H.) “Ah, what a day!”—Mighty. Sept. “destruction.” They have read in a different manner. God is about to give sentence, (C.) and to send Nabuchodonosor, (S. Jerome) or to destroy by famine. V. 17.
• Ver. 1. Ch. 2. Blow. The prophets often ordered, to signify what will take place. W.—The people were gathered by the sound of trumpets. The danger from the locusts was imminent; and all are exhorted to avert it, by praying in the temple, &c.—Tremble at the sound. Amos iii. 6. C. Extemplò turbati. Ǽn. viii—Lord. That is, the time when he will execute justice on sinners, (Ch.) and suffer affliction to fall upon them. W. C. i. 15.
• Ver. 2. Darkness. This implies great misery. v. 10. C.—People. The Assyrians or Chaldeans. Others understand all this of the army of locusts laying waste the land. Ch.—Morning; unexpectedly, (C.) and soon. H.—No human force can prevent the ravages of the locusts.—Beginning, in Palestine. Moses says the same; but speaks of Egypt. Ex. x. 14.

The Gospel According to Luke 11:14-26
Haydock New Testament

14 And he was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke, and the multitude wondered. 15 But some of them said:

He casteth out devils, through Beelzebub, the prince of devils.

16 And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. 17 But he seeing their thoughts, said to them:

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall. 18 And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils. 19 Now if I cast out devils through Beelzebub: through whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out devils: doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you. 21 When a strong man, armed, keepeth his court, those things which he possesseth are in peace. 22 But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils. 23 He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. 25 And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

Haydock Commentary Luke 11:14-26

• Ver. 14. This possessed person is said in S. Mathew to have been also blind. Upon him, therefore, were wrought three wonders: the blind saw, the dumb spoke, the possessed was delivered; which daily takes place in the persons of such as are converted to the number of true believers: the devil is expelled, and they both receive the light of faith beaming upon their eyes, and have the strings of their silent organs loosed to sound forth the praises of God. Ven. Bede.—And the multitude, &c. The multitude, though devoid of learning, were constant admirers of the actions of our Lord, whilst the Scribes and Pharisees either denied them, or by a sinister interpretation, ascribe them to the power of the unclean spirit. Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 17. And house upon house shall fall. He speaks of a house or family divided, which thereby shall fall to ruin. Wi.
• Ver. 19. Your judges. They will condemn you of injustice, envy, and hatred against me, and blasphemy against God; because when they perform any exorcisms, though they appear but little more than human in their actions, yet you ascribe them to the virtue of God; but when I perform any miracle, though there always appear most evident signs of the power and virtue of God, you ascribe all to the hand and machination of the devil. Tirinus.
• Ver. 24. Man, &c. By this one man is meant the whole Jewish people, out of whom the unclean spirit had been driven by the law. S. Ambrose.—For as long as they were in Egypt, they lived after the manners of the Egyptians, and were the habitation of the unclean spirit; but it was expelled from them, when they slew the paschal lamb in figure of Christ, and escaped destruction by sprinkling themselves with its blood. S. Cyril ex Divo Thoma.—But the evil spirit returned to his former habitation, the Jews, because he saw them devoid of virtue, barren, and open for his reception. And their latter state is worse than their former; for more wicked demons possessed the breast of the Jews than before. Then they raged against the prophets only; but now they persecute the Lord himself of the prophets: therefore have they suffered much greater extremities from Vespasian and Titus, than from Egypt and Babylon; for besides being deprived of the merciful protection of Providence, which before watched over them, they are destitute of all grace, and delivered up to a more poignant misery, and a more cruel tyranny of the devil. S. Chrys. xliv. hom. on S. Matt.
• Ver. 26. The last state, &c. But these words are also addressed to us Christians, who may often, and with reason, fear lest the vice we think extinguished in us, against return and seize on our slothful and careless souls, finding them cleansed indeed from the filth of sin by the grace of baptism, but destitute of every ornamental and protective virtue. It brings with it seven other evil spirits, by which we must understand every vicious inclination. V. Bede.—The latter state of these souls is worse than the former; because having been delivered from all former sins, and adorned with grace, if they again return to their iniquities a much more grievous punishment will be due for every subsequent crime. S. Chrys. xliv. hom. on S. Matt.