October 24 2007 Wednesday 29th Week Ordinary Time.
About the sources used.
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/102407.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Romans 6:12-18
Haydock New Testament
12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God as those that are alive from the dead: and your members as instruments of justice unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine into which you have been delivered. 18 Being then made free from sin, you are become the servants of justice.
*note on this passage from Romans: I strongly urge you to check the Jerusalem Bible for this passage for the perspective. For now you can check it at Universalis
The Gospel According to Saint Luke 12:39-48
Haydock NT
39 But this know ye, that if a master of a family did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broke upon. 40 Be you also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.
41 And Pope Peter I* said to him:
Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
42 And the Lord said:
Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. 44 Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.
45 But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants, and maid-servants, and to eat, and to drink, and be drunk; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day that he expecteth not, and at an hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
47 And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and hath not prepared, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.** And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.
*It actually says “And Peter said…”. I’m just having fun. 
** Purgatory?
Haydock Commentary Romans 6:12-18
- Ver. 12. Let not sin, therefore, reign, &c. He compares sin and justice to two kings, or generals, under one of which every man fights in this world. Sin is the tyrant, under which fight the wicked, and make their minds and their members the instruments, or arms of iniquity to sin, when they follow and yield to their disorderly lusts. But he exhorts them to live so as to make the powers of their souls, and their members, instruments or arms of justice to God, to fight under God, their lawful king, and under the banner of his justice. Wi.
- Ver. 14. You are not under the law of Moses, as some of you were before: but now you are all under grace, or of the law of grace, where you may find pardon for your sins. But take care not to abuse this grace of pardon offered you, nor multiply your sins, and defer your conversion, as some may do, by presuming, that after all, by the merits of Christ, you can find pardon. This, says Tertullian, is the greatest ingratitude, to continue wicked, because God is good. Reflect that you make yourselves servants of him whom you obey. By yielding to your passions, you become slaves to sin. If you keep your obedience to the law of Christ, and to his doctrine, the form of which you have delivered to you by the gospel, you are the happy servants of justice, and the servants of God, who is justice itself. Wi.
- Ver. 17. Thanks be to God, &c. He thanks God, not because they had been in sin, but because after having been so long under the slavery of sin, they had now been converted from their heart, and with their whole strength gave themselves to that form of doctrine to which they had been conducted by the gospel. He returns God thanks for their obedience to the faith, because this obedience of the human will is the work and gift of God, that so no one may glory in his sight. Ephes. ii. Estius.
Haydock Commentary Luke 12:39-48
- Ver. 39. Some have imagined that the devil, our implacable enemy, is designated by the thief, and our souls by the house, and man by the householder: yet this interpretation does not agree with what follows; for the coming of our Lord is compared to the thief, as if surprising us on a sudden. This latter opinion, therefore, seems to be the more probable one. Theophylactus.
- Ver. 48. Shall be beaten with few stripes. Ignorance, when it proceeds from a person’s own fault, doth not excuse, but only diminisheth the fault. Wi.
Daily Bible Readings With Traditional Catholic Commentary October 24 2007 Wednesday 29th Week Ordinary Time
Posted by Bob on October 24, 2007
October 24 2007 Wednesday 29th Week Ordinary Time.
About the sources used.
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/102407.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Romans 6:12-18
Haydock New Testament
12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God as those that are alive from the dead: and your members as instruments of justice unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine into which you have been delivered. 18 Being then made free from sin, you are become the servants of justice.
*note on this passage from Romans: I strongly urge you to check the Jerusalem Bible for this passage for the perspective. For now you can check it at Universalis
The Gospel According to Saint Luke 12:39-48
Haydock NT
39 But this know ye, that if a master of a family did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broke upon. 40 Be you also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.
41 And Pope Peter I* said to him:
Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
42 And the Lord said:
Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. 44 Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.
45 But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants, and maid-servants, and to eat, and to drink, and be drunk; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day that he expecteth not, and at an hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
47 And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and hath not prepared, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.** And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.
*It actually says “And Peter said…”. I’m just having fun.
** Purgatory?
Haydock Commentary Romans 6:12-18
Haydock Commentary Luke 12:39-48
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