Getting Behind Again

Life gets in the way sometimes, and sometimes I just forget. It was a little of both last week. Hopefully things get back to normal.

I tried to catch up today but got caught up answering questions and phone calls throughout the evening. It happens. Sorry if any of you rely on the daily posting of the readings. I suppose that the worst case scenario is that I can copy them from elsewhere for the sake of saving time, which would make it easier especially on nights like tonight. It’s all copyright free anyway.

Daily Bible Readings January 22, 2008 Tuesday

January 22 2008 Tuesday 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/012208.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

1 Samuel 16:1-13
Douay-Rheims Challoner

1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
3 And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to thee.
4 Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they said: Is thy coming hither peaceable?
5 And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6 And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord’s anointed before him?
7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
8 And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he said: Neither hath the Lord chosen this,
9 And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
10 Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel said to Isai: The Lord hath not chosen any one of these.
11 And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
12 He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.

The Gospel According to Saint Mark 2:23-28
Haydock NT

23 And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn-fields on the Sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward and to pluck the ears of corn. 24 And the Pharisees said to him:

Behold, why do they do on the Sabbath-day that which is not lawful?

25 And he said to them:

Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he and they that were with him? 26 How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar, the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful to eat but for priests, and gave to them who were with him?

27 And he said to them:

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.

Haydock Commentary 1 Samuel 16:1-13

• Ver. 1. How long. It seems his tears were not soon dried up, as he lamented the fall of one whom he had formerly so much admired, and perceived what evils would ensue. Salien.—He had hoped that the decree might have been revocable. But God now convinces him of the contrary, by ordering him to go and anoint a successor.—Horn. Such vessels were formerly very common, and were used to contain liquor, and instead of cups. 3 K. 1:39. Horace ii. Sat. 2. The ancient silver cups, at Athens, resembled horns. Athen. xi. 7. But  the northern nations, particularly Denmark, &c used horns to drink, as the Georgians still do. The rims are ornamented with silver, &c. Plin. xi. 37. Chardin. C.—A fragile vial was not used, but a horn, to denote the duration and abundance of David’s reign. Rupert. M.
• Ver. 2. Of the herd. Heb. “a heifer in thy hand.” H.—Females might be employed as peace-offerings. Lev. 3:1—Lord.  This was one, though not the principal reason. No one doubted but that he might lawfully offer sacrifice, at a distance from the tabernacle, as he was guided by God. The Jews allow that prophets have this privilege, and may dispense with the ceremonial law, (Grot.) when they act by God’s authority, as we ought to believe they do, as long as there is no proof to the contrary. II.
• Ver. 3. Sacrifice, to partake of the feast, (M.) which must be consumed in two days, or thrown into the fire. Lev. 7:16. C.
• Ver. 4.  Wondered. Heb. “trembled,” being full of consternation, (H.) as the prophet did not now stir much from home; and fearing lest he had some bad news to impart, or had incurred the king’s displeasure, (C.) unless he came to punish some of the people at Bethlehem. M.
• Ver. 5. Sanctified, prepared by aspersions, washing, and continence. Ex. 19:14. What sorts of uncleanness excluded from the feast, are specified, Lev. 22. M.—Samuel arrived in the evening, and announced that sacrifice would be offered the ensuing morning. T.
• Ver. 6. Him. Heb. “surely the Lord’s anointed is in his presence.” This he spoke by his own spirit, judging from the comeliness of Eliab. C.—But the beauty of Saul’s body had concealed a deformed soul. H.
• Ver. 7. Rejected, or not chosen. M.—God had positively rejected this eldest son, as his pride seems to have been the greatest. C. xvii. 28. H.—Heart. This is one of God’s perfections. Glorified saints see man’s heart in his light, for their own and our advantage, (S. Greg. Mor. xii. 11. S. Aug.) as the prophets have sometimes done. 3 K. xiv. W.
• Ver. 10. Seven. David was absent. Isai had eigth sons. C. xvii. 12. Yet only seven are mentioned, 1 Par. ii. 13. Perhaps one of those whom he produced on this occasion, might be a grandson, or one is omitted in Chronicles. C.
• Ver. 11. Young son, (parvulus,) “a little one;” (H.) or the youngest, who might be about 15, (C.) or 28. Seder. Olam. Iii. M.
• Ver. 12. Ruddy, like the spouse, Cant. v. 10. Some explain it of his hair. So Alexander is said to have had reddish or golden locks.—Behold. Heb. “with the beauty of the eyes.”
• Ver. 13. Brethren. Some say, without informing him, (C.) or them, (M.) what the unction meant. If he told the brothers, he would no doubt take the necessary precautions to keep it secret, as the whole family would have been in imminent danger, if the transaction had come to the ears of Saul, v. 2. Josephus says, that Samuel only informed Isai in private: and David’s brothers treat him with no peculiar distinction. Whence it is inferred, that they had not been present when he was anointed. Some witnesses seem, however, to have been requisite, as the title of David to the regal dignity depended on this ceremony, now had a right to the kingdom, but not the possession; being like a son expecting his father’s estate as his future right, of which, as yet, he cannot dispose. C.—Came upon, to make him prosper. M.—Heb. “came with prosperity; (Sept.) impetuosity.” God endued him with all those graces which might render him fit to command. C.-0-So David prays himself, “with a princely spirit confirm me;” (Ps. 1. 14.) or, strengthen me with a perfect spirit. Salien observes, that he did not now receive the spirit of charity, as if he had hitherto been in enmity with God, (C. xiii. 14.) but he began to advance in virtue with more rapid strides, while Saul became every day more criminal and abandoned to the devil. H.—David received the spirit of fortitude and of prophecy, of which Saul had formerly had some experience, when he was first elevated to that high dignity. C. x. He was changed into a new man, and adorned with all that could render a king most glorious. Though eh returned to his wonted occupations, the spirit of the Lord enabled him to destroy wild beasts, as in play, (Eccli. xlvii. 3.) and to compose and sing many of those divine canticles which we still admire. Salien, A. 2969.—Whether he composed all the Psalms, as S. Chrysostom endeavours to prove, we shall examine hereafter. H.

 

Haydock Commentary Mark 2:23-28

• Ver. 25. When he had need. In necessity many things are done without sin, which in other circumstances it would be unlawful to do. B.
• Ver. 26. Under Abiathar. The priest from whom David had these loaves, is called Achimelech, 1 K. xxi. The most probable answer to this difficulty is, that the priest had both these names of Achimelech and of Abiathar, as also his father had before him. For he that (1 K. xxii.) is called Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, is called 2 K. viii. 17, Achimelech, the son of Abiathar. See also 1 Par. xviii. 16. Wi.—Others say that Abiathar, son of Achimelech, was present, and sanctioned the deed of his father, thus making it his own. Dion. Carth.
• Ver. 28. The maker of the law may abrogate or dispense with it when and where, for just cause, it seemeth good to him: thus the Church can dispense with, change, or abrogate, for just reasons, the discipline of the Church founded upon Church authority. This we prove also from the action of David, (v. 26, supra) which the Scripture notices without blaming it, because the observance of the law, prescribed for the utility of man, must yield to the necessities of man.