Daily Bible Readings Wednesday July 9 2008 14th Week of Ordinary Time

July 9 2008 Wednesday 14^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions

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.

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Hosea (Osee) 10:1-3, 7-8, 12
DR Challoner

Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols. Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water. And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.*

Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

*Rev 6:16 – normally I would not do this, but any time I see a reference from Revelation that I recognize in the OT I try to note it. The reason for this is due to the coded nature of the Book of Revelation which shows us that we should first try to understand the historical context . It is a book of history and it tells a tale of the early Church. This is at least as important as the many (usually failed) attempts to find prophetic references.

Responsorial Psalm 104:2-7
DR Challoner Text Only

Sing to him, yea sing praises to him:
relate all his wondrous works.
Glory ye in his holy name:
let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened:
seek his face evermore.
Remember his marvellous works which he hath done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
O ye seed of Abraham his servant;
ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
He is the Lord our God:
his judgments are in all the earth.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 10:1-7
Haydock New Testament

And, having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother. James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew, the publican, and James, the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus. Simon, the Chananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent; and commanded them, saying:

Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the cities of the Samaritans enter not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Haydock Commentary Hosea (Osee) 10:1-3, 7-8, 12
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Branches. Sept. “Wood.” Sym. This is all: it yields no fruit. Prot. “empty.” H. — Heb. “plucked.” The grapes are taken away, as the Israelites were; though they boasted of their numbers. C. ix. 16. They are often compared to a vine, the symbol of fecundity. Is. v. 3. Ps. cxxvii. 3. C. — The greater benefits of God enhanced their ingratitude. W. — On every noted hill (H.) profane altars were erected.
• Ver. 2. Divided between the Lord and idols. 3 K. xviii. 21. C. — The Jews relate that Osee, the last king of Israel, gave the people leave to go to Jerusalem; (4 K. xvii. 2.) and as they would not take advantage of it, their ruin was decreed. S. Jer.
• Ver. 3. No king, in captivity; or they give this title to the golden calf. Manahem had destroyed one, so that they could not but see its vanity. The neighbouring nations looked upon their idols as their kings.
• Ver. 7. Pass. Heb. “As for Samaria, it is undone. Its king is like froth, or a bubble,” &c. C. xi. 1. The calf; (v. 3.) Zacharias or Osee may be meant.
• Ver. 8. Us, as the Jews would do at the last siege, and sinners before the day of judgment. Lu. xxiii. 30. Apoc. vi. 14. Too happy, if they could by a speedy death escape eternal torments! C. — People shall be in the utmost consternation at the approach of the Assyrians. H. — They will not think themselves secure enough in their caverns.
• Ver. 12. Mouth. Heb. “in proportion to (C.) your piety.” Sept. “gather a vintage of the fruit of life.” H. — Ground. Reform you conduct. C. — Justice, when Christ shall appear, the source of all our grace and justice. S. Jer. &c. C. — Sept. “Light up for yourselves the light of knowledge, for it is time; seek the Lord, till ye obtain the fruit of justice.”

Haydock Commentary Matthew 10:1-7

• Ver. 1. Before this time the 12 were called disciples, and not apostles. But now he selects these from the disciples, and makes them, as it were, masters and interpreters of the ways of God to man. He sent afterwards 72 other disciples, (Luke x. 1,) but these 12 only to the whole world. A. — His twelve, &c. Christ chose 12 apostles, that they might correspond to the number of the Jewish patriarchs, by whom they may be said to have been prefigured; and that as the whole Jewish people were descended according to the flesh from the 12 patriarchs, so the whole Christian people might be descended according to the spirit from the 12 apostles. M. — Others say he chose 12, neither more nor less, to correspond with the 12 prophets of the old law, with the 12 fountains in Elim; and the 12 stones selected from the river Jordan, and preserved in the ark of the testament. Others compare the 12 apostles to the 12 months of the year, and the four evangelists to the four seasons: thus Sedulius, l. i. carm.
• Quatuar hi proceres una te voce canentes,
• Tempora ceu totidem latum sparguntur in orbem.
• Sic et apostolici semper duodenus honoris
• Fulget apex numero menses imitatus, et horas,
• Omnibus ut rebus semper tibi militet annus.
• Ver. 2. First, Simon.[1] Simon was the first of the apostles, not in the time of his vocation, as his brother Andrew was called to the apostleship before him, but in dignity, in as much as he was constituted the vicar of Christ, and the head of the Church. M. —Who is called Peter. When he first came to our Saviour, (Jo. i. 42,) he said, Thou art Simon, son of Jonas, (or John) thou shalt be called Peter; in Chaldaic, Cephas; that is to say, a rock, designing to make him the first fundamental stone or head of his whole Church. See also Matt. xvi. 18. Beza, without any grounds, would have the word first to be an addition. But it is found in all Greek MSS. as well as in the ancient fathers. Wi.
• Ver. 3. James, the son of Zebedee, called James the greater, put to death by Herod. Acts. xii. 2. He was brother to John the Evangelist. The other James was called the less, also James of Alpheus, and the brother of the Lord, bishop of Jerusalem, martyred there about the year 61. Wi. — Some take Bartholomew to be the same as Nathaniel. Bartholomew signifies son of Tholmew; and he might have been called Nathaniel, son of Thalmew. V.
• Ver. 5. Go not into the way of the Gentiles, or among the Gentiles. In this first mission, the apostles were ordered to preach to the Jews only, or to the children of the kingdom. Matt. vii. 12. See also Matt. xv. 24. and Acts xii. 46. Wi. — These twelve Jesus sent. In this mission of the apostles we may observe three things: first, whither Jesus sent them; secondly, what he ordered them to teach; and thirdly, what they were to do. As to the first, he tells them not to go in the way of the Gentiles, nor enter in the city of the Samaritans; but to go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. We must here take notice that this commandment, given by Christ to the apostles, of confining their preaching to the house of Israel, does not contradict one related in Matthew, (c xxviii.) Go teach all nations, &c. We observe that these two commandments were given at two very different times; the first indeed, (the subject of our present annotation) the apostles received before the resurrection of Christ; the other after. It was necessary first to warn the Jews of the arrival of the Messias amongst them; otherwise they might have excused themselves for having rejected him, by saying, “He had sent his apostles to preach, no to them but to the Gentiles and Samaritans.” S. Jerom. — S. Chrysostom assigns another reason why the apostles were sent first to preach in Judea, viz. that having withstood the opposition of one nation, they might be more prepared to hold out against the attacks, which they would no doubt have afterwards to sustain, in their endeavours to convert the whole world. S. Chrysos. — He forbids them to preach to the Gentiles, because it was proper that the word of God should first be announced to the Jews, children of the kingdom. Vide Acts c. xiii, v. 42. M.
• Ver. 7. And going, &c. What the apostles were to preach, is the second thing to be taken notice of in their mission. We here learn what it is, viz. that The kingdom of heaven is at hand. We here behold the great dignity to which the apostles were raised, when sent to preach. For, says S. Chrysostom, they are not sent to announce sensible things, like Moses and the prophets, but something wholly new, and before unheard of. They are not like the prophets, to confine themselves to the preaching of temporal things, their doctrine is wholly heavenly; they are sent to announce the good things of eternity. S. Thos. Aquin.