January 26 2008 Saturday 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.
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2 Timothy 1:1-8
Haydock NT
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus: 2 To Timothy, most beloved son, grace mercy, peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus, our Lord.
3 I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have a remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day. 4 Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy. 5 Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother, Lois, and in thy mother, Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also. 6 For which cause I admonish thee, that thou stir up the grace of God, which is in thee, by the imposition of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety. 8 Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God.
Or Titus 1:1-5
Haydock NT
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to piety: 2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: 3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God, our Saviour. 4 To Titus, my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God, the Father, and from Christ Jesus, our Saviour. 5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldst ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee.
Responsorial Psalm 95:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 LXX/Latin (96 Hebrew)
Douay-Rheims Challoner Text Only
Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle:
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name:
shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the Gentiles:
his wonders among all people.
Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles,
bring ye to the Lord glory and honour:
Bring to the Lord glory unto his name.
Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned.
For he hath corrected the world,
which shall not be moved:
he will judge the people with justice.
The Gospel According to Saint Mark 3:20-21
Haydock NT
20 And they come to a house: and the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold of him: for they said:
He is become mad.
Haydock Commentary 2 Timothy 1:1-8
- Ver. 3. Whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience. That is, have always served and worshipped the one true God, as my forefathers had done, which was true even when he persecuted the Christians; though this he did not with a pure conscience, but with a false mistaken zeal; and his ignorance could not excuse him, after he might have known Christ. Wi.
- Ver. 5. Thy grandmother, Lois. The principal intention S. Paul seems to have had in writing this second epistle to Timothy, was, to comfort him under the many hardships under which he laboured, for the faith of Christ. To this end he endeavours first to strengthen his faith, by calling to his mind the example given him in his grandmother, as also in his mother, Eunice. Some likewise think S. Paul is here exhorting Timothy to a desire of martyrdom, in the perfect discharge of his ministry, by his own example; as the same writers think it most probable that he was confined in prison at Rome, or at Laodicea, at the time he wrote this epistle. Dionysus Carthus.—Certain that in thee also. Wi.
- Ver. 6. That thou stir up the grace of God. In the Greek is a metaphor for fire that is blown up again.—Which is in thee by the imposition of my hands, when thou wast ordained bishop. Wi.—The grace, which S. Paul here exhorts Timothy to stir up in him, was the grace he had received by imposition of hands, either in his confirmation, or at receiving the sacrament of orders, being a bishop. This verse seems to shew that the imposition of hands is used in these two sacraments, as the essential matter of the sacraments, being the instrumental cause of the grace therein conferred. Dion. Carthus.
- Ver. 7. Of fear. Of a cowardly fear, and want of courage.—Of sobriety. Though the Protestants here translate of a sound mind, yet they translate the same Greek word by sobriety in divers other places, as Acts xxvi. 25. 1 Tim. ii. 9 and 15. and c. iii. 2 Tit. i. 8. &c. Wi.
- Ver. 8. Labour with the Gospel. That is, labour with me in preaching, &c. Or by the Greek be partner with me in suffering. Wi.
Haydock Commentary 2 Titus 1:1-5
- Ver. 1. According to the faith of the elect of God; that is, of the Christians, now the elect people of God.—Truth, which is according to piety: because there may be truth also in things that regard not piety. By truth, S. Chrys. here understands the truth of the Christian religion, as distinguished from the Jewish worship, which consisted in a great measure in the figures and types of truth. Wi.
- Ver. 2. Who lieth not, or who cannot lie, being truth itself.—Hath promised of the worlds. Lit before secular times. Wi.
- Ver. 3. Manifested his word. S. Jerome understands the word incarnate; others, the word of God preached, which S. Paul says, was committed to him, &c. See S. Chrys. p. 383. Wi.
- Ver. 4. To Titus, my beloved, (in the Greek, my true and genuine son, … grace and peace. In the present ordinary Greek copies is added mercy which the Prot translators followed; but it is judiciously admitted by Dr. Wells, as not found in the best MSS nor in S. Chrys. Greek edition, nor in the ancient Greek and Latin Fathers. Wi.
- Ver. 5. That thou shouldst, &c. The sense cannot be, that he was to change anything S. Paul had ordered, but to settle things which S. Paul had not time to do; for example, to establish priests in the cities, that is to say, bishops, as the same are called bishops v. 7.; and, as S. Chrys. and others observe it, it is evident from this very place, that the word presbyter was then used to signify either priests or bishops. If S. Jerome here meant that bishops were only placed over priests by ecclesiastical and not by divine institution, as some have expounded his words, his singular opinion against so many others is not to be followed. Wi.—That the ordaining of priests belongs only to bishops, is evident from the Acts and from S. Paul’s epistles to Timothy and Titus. It is true, S. Jerome seems to express himself as if in the primitive Church there was no great difference between priests and bishops, yet he constantly excepts giving holy orders, (ep. 85) as also confirming the baptized, by giving them the Holy Ghost by imposition of hands and holy chrism; (dial. cont. Lucif. c. iv.) which preeminence he attributes to bishops only. To assert here that there is no distinction between a priest and bishops is an old heresy, condemned as such by the Church. See S. Epiphanius, hær. 75. S. Austin, hær. 53.
Haydock Commentary Mark 3:20-21
- Ver. 21. And when his friends had heard of it: lit. his own. We cannot here understand his apostles, for they were in the house with him; but either some of his kindred and friends, or some that were of the same country and town of Nazareth, though perhaps enemies to him.—For they said. It is not certain who said this, whether his friends or his adversaries.—He is become mad. By the Greek, he is not himself. Christ might be called a madman by the Scribes and Pharisees, when he blamed their vices and when he preached with such extraordinary zeal. Or, as the Greek implies, he was thought to be transported out of his wits, and, and the Prot. translation hath it, was beside himself. If they were his friends that said this of him, they did not think so, but only pretended it, that they might get him safe out of the hands of his adversaries. Wi.
