January 21 2008 Monday 2nd Week Ordinary Time
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/012108.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
1 Samuel 15:16-23
Douay-Rheims Challoner
16 And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.
17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.
18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.
19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?
20 And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
21 But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.
22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.
23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.
The Gospel According to Saint Mark 2:18-22
Haydock NT
18 Now the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, used to fast: and they come, and say to him:
Why do they disciples of John, and of the Pharisees, fast; but thy disciples do not fast?
19 And Jesus saith to them:
Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: and then they shall fast in those days. 21 No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater rent. 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine will burst the bottles, and both the wine will spilled, and the bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles.
Haydock Commentary 1 Samuel 15:16-23
- Ver. 17. Eyes. God rejects the proud, and gives his grace to the humble. See Luke 1:52. H.
- Ver. 20. Lord. Sept. “of the people.”
- Ver. 21. First-fruits, or the best.—Slain. Heb. “of the anathema.”
- Ver. 22. Rams. Can God be pleased with victims which he has cursed? H.
- Ver. 23. Obey. Heb. “Rebellion is the sin of divination or witchcraft, and resistance is iniquity, and Therapim.” Sym. “the injustice of idols.” Theraphim here designate idolatrous representations. Gen 31:19. They were probably of Chaldee original, in honour of the sun and fire, (C.) and were venerated like the Penates, and supposed to be the sources of prosperity, from the Arab. Taraph, “to give abundance.” Hence Laban was so solicitous to recover what Rachel had taken away. Louis de Dieu.—By sacrifices we give our goods, or another’s flesh is immolated; (Mor. xxxiii. 10. D.) by obedience, we give outselves to God. S. Greg. W.
Haydock Commentary Mark 2:18-22
- Ver. 18. See Matt. ix. 14, and Luke 5:33.
- Ver. 20. Jesus Christ here foretelleth that fasting shall be used in his Church, no less than in the old law, or in the time of John the Baptist. See Matt. ix. 15.—When first we begin to be converted to God, the spiritual consolations which God infuses into our souls, cause in us an overflowing of spiritual delights, so that we then feast, and are in the midst of delight; but when the Bridegroom shall be taken away, when these spiritual consolations cease, then we fast, and find the commandments difficult. It is then we must prepare ourselves for tribulation. Ven. Bede.
- Ver. 22. From Bob, not Haydock. Bottles. In the Greek ασκους. This is a skin bag used as a bottle, not to be confused with glass bottles today which can be reused without worry. Modern versions translate “wineskins”
Daily Bible Readings January 21, 2008 Monday
Posted by Bob on January 21, 2008
January 21 2008 Monday 2nd Week Ordinary Time
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/012108.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
1 Samuel 15:16-23
Douay-Rheims Challoner
16 And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.
17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.
18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.
19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?
20 And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
21 But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.
22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.
23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.
The Gospel According to Saint Mark 2:18-22
Haydock NT
18 Now the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, used to fast: and they come, and say to him:
Why do they disciples of John, and of the Pharisees, fast; but thy disciples do not fast?
19 And Jesus saith to them:
Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: and then they shall fast in those days. 21 No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater rent. 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine will burst the bottles, and both the wine will spilled, and the bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles.
Haydock Commentary 1 Samuel 15:16-23
Haydock Commentary Mark 2:18-22
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