Read The Bible in a Year Catholic Edition

This is for all the Catholics out there who would like to read the entire Bible in a year, the Catholic Bible with all the books, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

No. It’s not mine. It’s from the Coming Home Network website. The PDF file can be printed out and used for your reference. The guide is for both the Bible and the Catechism and it’s sensibly laid out, but doing so requires that you set aside time each day.

Here’s where you can find it : http://www.chnetwork.org/libdownload.html

If you miss a day just pick up where you left off. No big deal if you don’t quite make it through a year.

Daily Bible Readings January 10 2008 with Traditional Catholic Commentary

January 10 2008 Thursday 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/011008.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

1 John 4:19–5:4
Haydock NT

19 Let us, therefore, love God, because God first hath loved us. 20 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not? 21 And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God, love also his brother.

1 Everyone who believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him that begot, loveth him also who was born of him. 2 In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the charity of God that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy. 4 For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

The Gospel According to Saint Luke 4:14-22
Haydock NT

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and the fame of him went out through the whole country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, and was extolled by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up, and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day, and he rose up to read. 17 And the book of Isaiah, the prophet, was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: wherefore he hath anointed me, to preach the gospel to the poor he hath sent me, to heal the contrite of heart, 19 To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward.” 20 And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them:

This day is fulfilled this Scripture in your ears.

22 And all gave testimony to him: and they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth, and they said:

Is this not the son of Joseph?

Haydock Commentary 1 John 4:19-5:4

• Ver. 20. He that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not? By this is signified, that it is more easy and natural to love the things that we see, and that enter by the senses. Pretend not then to love the invisible God, whose perfections are hidden from you in this life, unless you love your brother whom you see. But he adds another reason to prove that no man can love God unless he love his brother; because, saith he, (v. 21) this is God’s express command, that he who loveth God love also his brother: so that a man cannot love God unless he also love his neighbour. Wi.
• Ver. 1. That Jesus is the Christ, the promised Messiah, the Redeemer of the world, is born of God, is made his adoptive son by his grace in baptism. Wi.—Is born of God; that is, is justified, and become a child of God by baptism; which is also to be understood, provided the belief of this fundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the other conditions, which, by the word of God and his appointment, are also required for justification; such as a general belief of all that God has revealed and promised; hope, love, repentance, and a sincere disposition to keep God’ holy law and commandments. Ch.—Loveth him that begot; i.e. the eternal Father.—Loveth him also who was born of him; i.e. loveth him who is his only begotten and eternal Son. Wi.
• Ver. 2. In this we know that we love the children of God, (that is, all men, and especially the faithful, who are made his adoptive children) when we love God, and keep his commandments, for these two branches of charity, the love of God and of our neighbour, are inseparable: the one is known and proved by the other. Wi.
• Ver. 3. And his commandments are not heavy; not burdensome. Not but that they comprehend what seems hard to human frailty, and especially to men carried away with the love of vanities in this world, who think it hard to comply with Christ’s doctrine of self-denials, of renouncing their inclinations, of suffering death, sooner than to sin against God, or to renounce their faith: but the love of God, and the promises of an eternal happiness in the next life, with the assistances which God gives them, make the yoke of Christ sweet, and his burden light. See Mat. xi. 30. How different is this doctrine from that of those late heretics, who pretend that God’s commandments are impossible, even to just men, when they employ all their endeavours. See the first proposition of Jansenius, and this heresy of Calvin condemned by the council of Trent, sess. 6, cap. xi. can. 18. Wi.
• Ver. 4. This is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. That is, a lively faith, working by charity, makes a man victorious over the greatest temptations, and over all the adversaries of his salvation. Wi.—Our faith; Not a bare speculate or dead faith, but  a faith working by charity. Gal. v. 6. Ch.

 

Haydock Commentary Luke 4:14-22

• Ver. 17. As he unfolded the book: and again, (v. 20) when he had folded the book. Books at that time were not like ours now-a-days, but were skins or parchments, rolled or folded up. Wi.—Some are of the opinion that the Jews of Nazareth, having heard of the miracles and fame of Jesus, and that he was accustomed to teach in the synagogues, though he had never been instructed in any learning, when he rose to speak, purposely gave him the book of Isaiah, which was esteemed the most difficult to be explained, in order to try his learning; though it was probable that is was done by the all-directing interposition of Divine Providence. Maldonatus.
• Ver. 18. By the poor are to be understood the Gentiles; who might truly be called poor, since they possessed neither the knowledge of the true God, nor of the law, nor of the prophets. Origen.—Isaiah in this place speaks of himself, as a figure of the Messiah. The captivity of Babylon, which is the literal object of this prophecy, was a figure of the then state of mankind; the return from this captivity announced by the prophet, and effected by Cyrus, represented the redemption of man, effected by Jesus Christ. V.
• Ver. 19. To set at liberty them that are bruised, or oppressed. These words are not in the prophet; but are added by S. Luke, to explain the others.—To preach the acceptable year, as it were the jubilee year, when slaves used to be set at liberty. Wi.
• Ver. 20.  To observe and admire a person that had never learned letters, and who stood up amongst them an experienced teacher. Menochius. See John vii. 15. and Maldonatus.
• Ver. 21. By this Christ wished to shew that he was the Messiah foretold by the prophet Isaiah, whom they so anxiously expected: he declares himself to be the person pointed out by the prophet. There seems also to be a secret reprehension in these words of Christ; as if her were to say: Why are you so desirous to behold the Messiah, whom, when he is before your eyes, you will not receive? Why do you seek him in the prophets, when you neither understand the prophets, nor perceive the truth of their predictions, when they are fulfilled before your eyes? Maldonatus.