Daily Bible Readings Monday July 7 2008 14th Week of Ordinary Time

July 7 2008 Monday 14^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Blessed Emmanuel Ruiz and Companions

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Hosea (Osee) 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22
DR Challoner Text

And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali. And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name. And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.

Responsorial Psalm 144:2-9 (Ps 145 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

Every day will I bless thee:
and I will praise thy name for ever;
yea, for ever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised:
and of his greatness there is no end.
Generation and generation shall praise thy works:
and they shall declare thy power.
They shall speak of the magnificence
of the glory of thy holiness:
and shall tell thy wondrous works.
And they shall speak
of the might of thy terrible acts:
and shall declare thy greatness.
They shall publish the memory
of the abundance of thy sweetness:
and shall rejoice in thy justice.
The Lord is gracious and merciful:
patient and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is sweet to all:
and his tender mercies are over all his works.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 9:18-26
Haydock New Testament

While he was speaking these things to them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying:

Lord, my daughter is just now dead: but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

And Jesus rising up, followed him, with his disciples. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within herself:

If I shall only touch his garment, I shall be healed.

But Jesus turning about, and seeing her said:

Take courage, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole.

And the woman was made whole from that hour. And when Jesus came into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude in an uproar, he said:

Give place: for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth.

And they laughed scornfully at him. And when the crowd was turned out, he went in, and took her by the hand: and the girl arose. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that country.

Haydock Commentary Osee (Hosea) 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 16. My husband. In Heb. Ishi. — Baali: my lord. The meaning of this verse is: that, whereas, Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those days by wives speaking to their husbands, the synagogue, whom God was pleased to consider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from the name of Baali, because of his affinity with the name of the idol Baal. Ch. — The very name shall become obsolete. H.
• Ver. 17. Baalim. It is the plural number of Baal; for there were divers idols of Baal. Ch. — The Jews hence styled Esbaal, Isboseth; as boseth means “confusion.” 1 Par. viii. 33.
• Ver. 18. Beasts. The most savage nations shall receive the gospel, and become mild. Is. xi. 6. Theod. — Wild beasts shall not infest the land. Lev. xxvi. 22. C.
• Ver. 21. Hear the heavens, &c. All shall conspire in favour of the Church, which in the following verse is called Jezrahel, that is, the seed of God. Ch. — Harmony shall subsist between all the parts of the universe. The earth shall receive rain, &c. This happiness was enjoyed in figure by the Jews, after their return, and in reality by Christians. Theod.
• Ver. 22. Jezrahel. This most fruitful valley shall again be covered with abundant crops. The whole nation of the Jews shall be happy. C.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 9:18-26

• Ver. 18. A certain ruler.[4] Lit. a prince of a synagogue. He is called Jairus. Mark v. Luke viii. — My daughter is just now dead: or, as the other evangelists express it, is at the point of death; and her father having left her dying, he might think and say she was already dead. Wi. — In effect, news was shortly after brought him that she was dead. It is thus that some commentators explain the apparent difference found in Mark v. 22, and Luke viii. 41. — But come, lay thy hand, &c. Let us admire and imitate the humility and kindness of our Redeemer; no sooner had he heard the request of the ruler, but rising up, he followed him. Though, says S. Chrysostom, he saw his earthly disposition, requesting him to come and lay his hand upon her.
• Ver. 20. And behold a woman. This woman, according to Eusebius, came from Cæsarea Philippi, who, in honour of her miraculous cure, afterwards erected a brazen monument, descriptive of this event, before the door of her house in Cæsarea Philippi. Euseb.
• Ver. 22. EpistrafeiV kai idwn, turning about and seeing, as if he were ignorant, and wished to see who it was that had touched him, as the other evangelists relate. In S. Mark (v. 29,) we see she was cured on touching the garment; and Jesus only confirms the cure by what he says in verse 34. — But Jesus turning about. Our divine Saviour, fearing lest he might alarm the woman by his words, says immediately to her, Take courage; and at the same time calls her his daughter, because her faith had rendered her such. S. Chrysos.
• Ver. 23. And when Jesus . . . saw the minstrels. It was a custom among the Jews at funerals to hire persons to make some doleful music, and great lamentations. Wi. — Ovid also mentions the lugubrious music attendant on funerals.
• Cantabat mœstis tibia funeribus. 4. Fast.
• Ver. 24. The girl is not dead. Christ, by saving so, insinuated that she was not dead in such a manner as they imagined; that is, so as to remain dead, but presently to return to life, as if she had been only asleep. Wi. — But sleepeth. In the xi. chapter of S. John, Christ again calls death a sleep. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. Thus he teaches us to be no longer in dread of death, since it was reduced to the condition of a sleep. If you believe this, why do you vainly weep? why do you afflict yourself? this the Gentiles do, who have not faith. Your child is asleep, not dead, is gone to a place of rest, not to destruction. Therefore the royal prophet says, “Turn, O my soul, into thy rest, for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.” Psalm cxiv. If then it is a kindness, why should you weep? what else could you do at the death of an adversary, an enemy, the object of your greatest aversion? S. Chrysos. hom. xxxii. — Christ here asserts that the girl is only asleep, to shew that it was easy for him to raise her from death as from sleep. Theophylactus.
• Ver. 25. He took her by the hand, and as in his hands is the key both of life and death, (Apoc. i. 18,) so he commanded the soul to return and the girl to arise. A. — and when the crowd, &c. That is, if after a sinful and worldly life we wish to rise again, and be cleansed from the miserable condition of moral sin, denoted by the girl who was dead, we must cast out of our minds the great multitude of worldly concerns; for whilst these have possession, the mind is unable to recollect itself and apply seriously to consideration. S. Gregory.