Daily Bible Readings With Traditional Catholic Commentary January 8 2008 Tuesday

January 8 2008 Tuesday Octave of Epiphany

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. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/010808.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

 

1 John 4:7-10
Haydock NT

7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. 9 By this hath appeared the charity of God in us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live by him. 10 In this is charity: not as if we had loved God, but because he first loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

Mark 6:34-44
Haydock NT

34 And Jesus going out, saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying:

This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: 36 Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

37 But he answering, said to them:

Give you them to eat.

And they said to him:

Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

38 And he saith to them:

How many loaves have you? Go and see.

And when they knew, they say:

Five, and two fishes.

39 And he commanded them to make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass. 40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. 41 And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes; looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all. 42 And they all did eat, and had their fill. 43 And they took up the leavings, twelve baskets full of fragments, and of fishes. 44 And they that did eat, were five thousand men.

Haydock Commentary 1 John 4:7-10

• Ver. 7. Let us love one another. This is the repeated admonition of S. John, the evangelist, both in this epistle and to the end of his life, as S. Jerome relates in his Epist. ad Galat. (cap. vi. tom. 4, part 1, p. 414) that the apostle being very old, and when carried to Church meetings of the Christians, being desired to give them some exhortation, he scarce said any thing, but “love one another;” and it being tedious to his disciples to hear always the same thing, they desired some other instruction, to whom (says S. Jerome) he gave his answer, worthy of S. John: that this was the precept of our Lord, and that if complied with, it was sufficient.—Charity is of God, is love, is the fountain and source of all goodness and mercy, infinitely good in himself, and in his love and mercy towards mankind. This love and charity of God hath appeared by his sending his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. See Jo. i. 14.—Thus God having first loved us, (v. 10) when we were sinners, and his enemires, let us not be so ungrateful as not to love him, and to love one another after his example. Wi.

 

Haydock Commentary Mark 6:34-44

• Ver. 37. For two hundred pence. See Matt. xviii. 28. The apostles seems to speak these words ironically, to signify that they had not so much money as could procure a mouthful for each of them. Wi.