Daily Bible Readings Feb 9 2008 1st Saturday After Ash Wednesday with Traditional Catholic Commentary

February 9 2008 Friday After Ash Wednesday

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman 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. The order of the readings is based upon the Liturgical calendar published on the USCCB website.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/020908.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Isaiah 58:9b-14
Douay-Rheims Challoner

9 The Lord shall say: If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.
10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday.
11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.
12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:
14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Psalm 85:1-6
DR Challoner Text Only

Incline thy ear, O Lord,
and hear me: for I am needy and poor.
Preserve my soul, for I am holy:
save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for I have cried to thee all the day.
Give joy to the soul of thy servant,
for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.
For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild:
and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.
Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer:
and attend to the voice of my petition.

The Gospel According to Saint Luke 5:27-32
Haydock NT

27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the custom-house, and he said to him:

Follow me.

28 And leaving all things, he rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them. 30 But the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying to his disciples:

Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

31 And Jesus answering, said to them:

They who are in health need not the physician: but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the just, but sinners, to penance.

Haydock Commentary Isaiah 58:9b-14

• Ver. 9. Finger, contemptuously, or threatening. S. Jer.—Some explain it of the ordaining sacred ministers, or taking another’s property.
• Ver. 10. Soul, effectually, and with love relieving the distressed. C.
• Ver. 11. Fail. Sept. Alex. adds, “and thy bones as a flower shall spring and grow fat, and shall inherit ages of ages.” S. Jerome says this is not in the best copies. H.
• Ver. 12. Generation. As the Jews did not comply with the condition, the Church falls heir to these promises.
• Ver. 13. Sabbath, doing no work, or refraining from the violation of festivals.—Delightful. We must not think the Sabbath of the Lord a loss: (Amos viii. 5.) but rejoice in praising him. Ps. xlv. 11. C.—A word, or to apply to God’s word. Grot.—Pious reading on holidays is the duty of all who have an opportunity. H.
• Ver. 14. Earth. Judea. C.—Sept. “upon the good things of the land.” H.

 

Haydock Commentary Luke 5:27-32

• Ver. 28. The profane Julian charged S. Matthew of levity, in leaving all and following a stranger at one word. But hereby is seen the marvelous efficacy of Christ’s word and internal working, which in a moment can alter the heart of man, and cause him to despise what before was most near and dear to him. And this was done not only whilst Christ was living on earth, but daily in his Church. Thus S. Anthony, S. Francis, and others, hearing this word in the Church, forsook all and followed Jesus. S. Jer. in Matt. ix. Athan. in vita. S. Anton. August. Confess. l. viii. c. 11. Bonav. in vit. S. Francisci.
• Ver. 29. And Levi made him a great feast, to testify his gratitude to Jesus for the favour he had done him. It appears that both S. Mark and S. Luke affect, through consideration for S. Matthew, to designate him here by his less known name of Levi; whereas he designates himself, through humility, in this same circumstance, by his more known appellation of Matthew. See Matt. ix. 9. V.
• Ver. 31. Jesus Christ gives them here to understand, that they were of the number of those who languished under a severe indisposition, and that he was come to act as their Physician. S. Chrysos. Hom. xxxi. in Matt.