Daily Bible Readings Tuesday February 12 2008 1st Week of Lent

February 12 2008 Tuesday 1^st Week of Lent

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/021208.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Isaiah 55:10-11
CPDV Text

10 And in the same manner as rain and snow descend from heaven, and no longer return there, but soak the earth, and water it, and cause it to bloom and to provide seed to the sower and bread to the hungry,
11 so also will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish whatever I will, and it will prosper in the tasks for which I sent it.

Responsorial Psalm 33:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19 (Ps 34 Heb)
CPDV Text Only

Magnify the Lord with me,
and let us extol his name in itself.
I sought the Lord, and he heeded me,
and he carried me away from all my tribulations.
Approach him and be enlightened,
and your faces will not be confounded.
This poor one cried out, and the Lord heeded him,
and he saved him from all his tribulations.
The eyes of the Lord are on the just,
and his ears are with their prayers.
But the countenance of the Lord is upon those who do evil,
to perish the remembrance of them from the earth.
The just cried out, and the Lord heard them,
and he freed them from all their tribulations.
The Lord is near to those who are troubled in heart,
and he will save the humble in spirit.

The Gospel According to Saint Matthew 6:7-15
Haydock NT

7 And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not you therefore like them. For your Father knoweth what you stand in need of, before you ask him. 9 You therefore shall pray in this manner:

(In Green – how it’s recited at Mass where different)
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.
(daily bread)
And forgive us our debts,
(And forgive us our trespasses)
as we also forgive our debtors.
(as we forgive those who trespass against us)
And lead us not into temptation.
But deliver us from evil. Amen.

14 For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. 15 But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.

Haydock Commentary Isaiah 55:10-11

• Ver. 11. Sent it. I will assuredly bring you from Babylon; and the rain shall sooner return upwards than I will break my promise.

 

Haydock Commentary Matthew 6:7-15

• Ver. 7. Long prayer is not here forbidden; for Christ himself spent whole nights in prayer: and he sayeth, we must pray always; and the apostle, that we must pray without intermission, 1 Thess. v.; and the holy Church hath had from the beginning her canonical hours for prayer, but rhetorical and elaborate prayer, as if we thought to persuade God by our eloquence, is forbidden; the collects of the Church are most brief and most effectual. Aug. ep. 121. c. viii, ix, x. B.—Perseverance in prayer is recommended us by the example of the poor widow, who by her importunity prevailed over the unjust judge. Chry. hom. xix.—The Greek word means, to babble or trifle.
• Ver. 9. As God is the common Father of all, we pray for all. Let none fear on account of their lowly station here, for all are comprised in the same heavenly nobility … By saying, “who art in heave,” he does not mean to insinuate that he is there only, but he wishes to withdraw the humble petitioner from earth, and fix his attention on heaven. Chry. hom. xx. Other prayers are not forbidden. Jesus Christ prayed in different words (John, c. viii.), and the apostles; (Acts i.24,) but this is an example of the simple style to be used in prayer, and is applicable to all occasion.—Hallowed be thy name, from the word holy, be held and kept holy, be glorified by us, and that not only by our words, but principally by the lives we lead. The honour and glory of God should be the principal subject of our prayers, and the ultimate end of our every action; every other thing must be subordinate to this. A.
• Ver. 10. Those who desire to arrive at the kingdom of heaven, must endeavour so to order their life and conversation, as if they were already conversing in heaven. This petition is also to be understood for the accomplishment of the divine will in every part of the world, for the extirpation of error, and explosion of vice, that truth and virtue may everywhere obtain, and heaven and earth differ no more in honouring the supreme majesty of God. Chry. hom. xx.
• Ver. 11. Our supersubstantial bread. So it is at present in the Latin text: yet the same Greek word in S. Luke, is translated daily bread, as we say it in our Lord’s prayer, and as it was used to be said in the second or third age, as we find by Tertullian and S. Cyprian. Perhaps the Latin word, supersubstantialis, may bear the same sense as daily bread, or bread that we daily stand in need of; for it need not be taken for supernatural bread, but for bread which is daily added, to maintain and support the substance of our bodies. Wi.—In S. Luke the same word is rendered daily bread. It is understood of the bread of life, which we receive in the blessed sacrament. Ch.—It is also understood of the supernatural support of the grace of God, and especially of the bread of life received in the blessed Eucharist. A.—As we are only to pray for our daily bread, we are not to be over solicitous for the morrow, nor for the things of this earth, but being satisfied with what is necessary, turn all our thoughts to the joys of heaven. Chry. hom. xx.
• Ver. 12. Of all the petitions this alone is repeated twice. God puts our judgment in our own hands, that none might complain, being the author of his own sentence. He could have forgiven us our sins without this condition, but he consulted our good, in affording us opportunities of practicing daily the virtues of piety and mildness. Chry. hom. xx.—These debts signify not only mortal but venial sins, as S. Augustine often teaches. Therefore every man, be he ever so just, yet because he cannot live without venial sin, ought to say this prayer. Cont. 2 epis. Pelag. l. i. c. 14.—l. xxi. de civit. Dei. c. xxvii. B.
• Ver. 13. God is not the tempter of evil, or author of sin. James i. 13. He tempteth no man: we pray that he would not suffer the devil to tempt us above our strength: that he would remove the temptations, or enable us to overcome them, and deliver us from evil, particularly the evil of sin, which is the first, and the greatest, and the true efficient cause of all evils. A.—In the Greek we here read, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory; which words are found in some old Greek liturgies, and there is every appearance that they have thence slipped into the text of S. Matt. They do not occur in S. Luke (vi. 4.), nor in any one of the old Latin copies, nor yet in the most ancient of the Greek texts. The holy Fathers prior to S. Chrysostom, as Grotius observes, who have explained the Lord’s prayer, never mention these words.—And not being found in Tertullian, S. Cyprian, S. Jerome, S. Ambrose, S. Augustine, &c., nor in the Vatican Greek copy, nor in the Cambridge MSS. &c. as Dr. Wells also observes, it seems certain that they were only a pious conclusion, or doxology, with which the Greeks in the fourth age began to conclude their prayers, much after the same manner as, Glory be to the Father, &c. was added to the end of each psalm. We may reasonably presume, that these words at first were in the margin of some copies, and afterwards by some transcribers taken into the text itself. Wi.
• Ver. 14. Here he again recommendeth the forgiving of others, as the means of obtaining forgiveness. A.