Daily Bible Readings Tuesday July 1 2008 13th Week of Ordinary Time

July 1 2008 Tuesday 13^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Blessed Junipero Serra

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Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/070108.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12
DR Challoner Text

Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities. Shall two walk together except they be agreed? Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion’s whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there be no fowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth, before it hath taken somewhat? Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done? For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy?

I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord. Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I shall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel.

Responsorial Psalm 5:4b-8
DR Challoner Text Only

O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.
In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see:
because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.
Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee:
nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.
Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity:
thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie.
The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.
But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy,
I will come into thy house;
I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 8:23-27
Haydock New Testament

And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awaked him, saying:

Lord, save us, we perish.

And Jesus saith to them:

Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?

Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm.

But the men wondered, saying:

What manner of man is this, for the winds, and the sea obey him?

Haydock Commentary Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Family, including all the posterity of Jacob. W. — He afterwards addresses the ten tribes in particular. S. Jer. C.
• Ver. 2. Known, with love, (H.) and favoured with the law, &c. Above all, styling you my people. Ex. xix. 6. Ezec. xx. 5. C. — Visit. That is, punish. Ch. — I will treat you like my children, that I may spare you in eternity. C.
• Ver. 3. Agreed? As t hey cannot do this well, so neither can man be acceptable to God, unless he keep his laws. W. — The prophet here proves his mission, intimating that if he were not inspired, he would soon be open to detection. He had been banished from Bethel. C. 7. By many similes, he shows that the event will prove the sincerity of his character, and that he cannot resist the holy spirit which is in him.
• Ver. 4. Nothing? Thus, shall I inveigh against your crimes, if there were no need?
• Ver. 5. Somewhat? When the prophet speaks, has he no reason? God shews that he has sent him, by inflicting the punishments which he denounces.
• Ver. 6. Afraid. Yet you can hear these terrible truths without consternation! Will you therefore escape? C. — Evil. He speaks of the evil of sin, of which God is not the author. Ch. — All evil of punishment is sent by God, either to reclaim sinners or to be the beginning of sorrows, if they die impenitent. W. — You know that He rewards or punishes. If, therefore, what I foretell come to pass, do not blame me.
• Ver. 7. Prophets. In vain then would you silence them. C. ii. 12, and vii. 12. He always tends to the conclusion. v. 8. C.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 8:23-27

• Ver. 23. This bark is the Catholic Church. The sea denotes the world, the winds and tempests shew the attempts of the wicked spirits to overturn the Church. The Lord seems to sleep, when he permits his Church to suffer persecution and other trials, which he permits, that he may prove her faith, and reward her virtue and merits. Chry. hom. xxiii. in Mat. viii. The apostles had followed their divine Master. They were with him, and executing his orders, and it is under these circumstances they are overtaken with a storm. If their obedience to Jesus Christ, if his presence did not free them from danger, to what frightful storms do those persons expose themselves, who undertake the voyage of the present life without him? What can they expect but to be tossed to and fro for a time, and at last miserably to founder? Faithful souls ought, from the example here offered them, to rise superior to every storm and tempest, by invoking the all-powerful and ever ready assistance of heaven, and by always calling in God to their help before they undertake any thing of moment. A.
• Ver. 25. Should God appear to sleep, with the apostles, we should approach nearer to him, and awaken him with our repeated prayers, saying: “Lord, save us, or we perish.” A. — Had our Saviour been awake, the disciples would have been less afraid, or less sensible of the want of his assistance: he therefore slept, that they might be better prepared for the miracle he was about to work. Chry. hom. xxviii.
• Ver. 26. Why are you fearful, having me with you? Do you suppose that sleep can take from me the knowledge of your danger, or the power of relieving you? A. — He commanded the winds. Christ shewed himself Lord and Master of the sea and winds. His words in S. Mark (iv. 39,) demonstrate his authority: Rising up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, be still. Wi. — As before our Lord restored Peter’s mother-in-law on the spot, not only to health, but to her former strength; so here he shews himself supreme Lord of all things, not only by commanding the winds to cease, but, moreover, by commanding a perfect calm to succeed. Chry. hom. xxiv. How many times has he preserved his Catholic Church, when (to all human appearance, and abstracting from his infallible promises) she has been in the most imminent danger of perishing? How many times by a miracle, or interposition of his omnipotence, less sensible indeed, but not less real, has he rescued our souls, on the point of being swallowed up in the infernal abyss? A. — He commands the mute elements to be subservient to his wish. He commands the sea, and it obeys him; he speaks to the winds and tempests, and they are hushed; he commands every creature, and they obey. Man, and man only, man honoured in a special manner by being made after the image and likeness of his Creator, to whom speech and reason are given, dares to disobey and despise his Creator. S. Aug. hom. in Mat.
• From this allegory of the ship and the storm, we may take occasion to speak of the various senses in which the words of Scripture may be occasionally taken. . . . The sense of Scripture is twofold, literal and spiritual. The literal is that which the words immediately signify. The spiritual or mystic sense is that which things expressed by words mean, as in Genesis xxii, what is literally said of the immolation of Isaac, is spiritually understood of Christ; and in Coloss. ii. 12, by the baptism of Christ, S. Paul means his burial. The spiritual sense in its various acceptations, is briefly and accurately given in the following distich:
• Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria,
• Moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia.