June 30 2008 Monday 13th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
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 for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.
Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/063008.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Amos 2:6-10, 13-16
DR Challoner Text
Thus saith the Lord:
For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name. And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath. It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.
Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life. And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life. And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm 49:16bc-23 (Ps 50 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only
Why dost thou declare my justices,
and take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hast hated discipline:
and hast cast my words behind thee.
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him:
and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil,
and thy tongue framed deceits.
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother,
and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
These things hast thou done, and I was silent.
Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee:
but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Understand these things, you that forget God;
lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:
and there is the way by which I
will shew him the salvation of God.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 8:18-22
Haydock New Testament
And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass over the water. And a certain scribe came and said to him:
Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.
And Jesus saith to him:
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And another of his disciples said to him:
Lord, permit me first to go, and bury my father.
But Jesus said to him:
Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.
Haydock Commentary Amos 2:6-10, 13-16
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
- Ver. 6. Just man. Joseph, (Rupert) or our Saviour, (Sanct.) or any other. The expression is proverbial. Ezec. xiii. 19. C. — Israel contemned the law, and adopted the abominations of all. W.
- Ver. 7. Humble, provoking him to anger. — Name. Such incests caused infidels to blaspheme. Lev. xviii. 8. C. — They must be punished with severity. W.
- Ver. 8. Altar. Herein they offended doubly, (Ex. xxii. 26.) as they used the garments of others to hide their shameful actions. 4 K. xxiii. 7. C. — Sept. “and tying up their garments with cords, they made veils touching the altar, and drank wine procured by calumnies,” (H.) or “rapine,” &c. Chal. — Condemned by them unjustly, though some think that a very delicious and intoxicating wine is meant, such as was given to people in grief. Prov. xxxi. 6. Mark xv. 23. Helena learnt in Egypt how to compose such wine. Odys. iv. — Feasting in temples on carpets was an ancient custom.
- Ver. 9. Beneath. The Israelites seemed like locusts in comparison. Num. xiii. 34.
- Ver. 13. I will screek. Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your sins, &c. The Spirit of God, as S. Jerom takes notice, accommodates itself to the education of the prophet, and inspires him with encouragements taken from country affairs. Ch. — Sept. “I am overturned.” Heb. “pressed.” C.
- Ver. 14. Swift. Jeroboam I. Other kings are described afterwards. S. Jer. — In the latter times all was in confusion. C.
Haydock Commentary Matthew 8:18-22
- Ver. 20. By the fox is meant craft and cunning, by the birds pride. Thus then our blessed Lord answered him; pride and deceit dwell in your heart, but you have left no place for the Son of Man to rest his head, who can rest only in the meek and humble. S. Augustin. — Jesus Christ rejected this scribe, because he wished to follow Jesus rather through the desire of glory and wealth, hoping to be great in his kingdom, than with the design of perfecting himself in virtue; so that our Saviour answers him: You cannot expect riches from me; who am poorer than the beasts of the field, or birds of the air; they have a place of rest, whereas I have none. M.
- Ver. 22. Let the dead bury their dead. The first words, let the dead, cannot mean those that were dead by a corporal death; and therefore must needs be understood of those who were spiritually dead in sin. Wi. — Two similar answers are mentioned in Luke ix. 57, 60. Jesus Christ may have given the same answers on two different occasions. V. — God will not suffer us to go and bury a deceased parent, when he calls us to other employments. S. Chry.
Daily Bible Readings Monday June 30 2008 13th Week of Ordinary Time
Posted by Bob on June 30, 2008
June 30 2008 Monday 13th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
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 for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.
Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/063008.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Amos 2:6-10, 13-16
DR Challoner Text
Thus saith the Lord:
For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name. And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath. It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.
Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life. And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life. And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm 49:16bc-23 (Ps 50 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only
Why dost thou declare my justices,
and take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hast hated discipline:
and hast cast my words behind thee.
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him:
and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil,
and thy tongue framed deceits.
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother,
and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
These things hast thou done, and I was silent.
Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee:
but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Understand these things, you that forget God;
lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:
and there is the way by which I
will shew him the salvation of God.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 8:18-22
Haydock New Testament
And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass over the water. And a certain scribe came and said to him:
Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.
And Jesus saith to him:
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And another of his disciples said to him:
Lord, permit me first to go, and bury my father.
But Jesus said to him:
Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.
Haydock Commentary Amos 2:6-10, 13-16
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
Haydock Commentary Matthew 8:18-22
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