Daily Bible Readings Tuesday July 15 2008 Memorial of St. Bonaventure Bishop and Doctor of the Church

July 15 2008 Tuesday
Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, bishop and doctor of the Church
Saint of the Day – St. Bonaventure

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/071508.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Isaiah 7:1-9
DR Challoner

And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it. And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind. And the Lord said to Isaiah:

Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller’s field. And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia. Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof. Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be. But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people: And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.

Responsorial Psalm 47:2-8 (Ps 48 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded,
on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.
In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.
For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves:
they gathered together.
So they saw, and they wondered,
they were troubled, they were moved:
Trembling took hold of them.
There were pains as of a woman in labour.
With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 11:20-24
Haydock New Testament

Then he began to upbraid the cities, wherein were done the most of his mighty works, because they had not done penance.

Wo to thee, Corozain, wo to thee Bethsaida: for if in Tye and Sidon the mighty works had been done that have been done in you, they would long ago have done penance in sack-cloth and ashes. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

And thou, Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? Thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom that have been done in thee, perhaps it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

Haydock Commentary Isaiah 7:1-9
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Achaz. This must be seventeen years later than the former prediction. 4 K. xv. 37. The kings of Syria and Israel jointly attacked Juda, but were forced to raise the siege of Jerusalem. The next year they came separately, and committed the following ravages. The news of their junction threw all into confusion. v. 2. Isaias was then sent to inform the king, that the designs of his enemies should not take effect. Yet the two kings obtained each a victory. But they could not dethrone Achaz, as they intended. C. — Paine traduces this prophecy as a lie, asserting that they succeeded. What! did they make Tabeel king? v. 6. The Israelites would not even keep the captives who had been taken. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. Watson, let. 5. — Achaz had been made captive before. But now the Lord defeated the projects of his enemies, as he will the conspiracy of heretics against his Church. W.
• Ver. 3. Jasub. This name was mysterious: Shear-Jashub means “the rest shall return” from Babylon, or be converted under Ezechias. C. x. 22. C. — Prot. Go “thou, and Shear-Jashub, thy son, at the end of the conduit,” &c. H.
• Ver. 4. Tails. So he styles the two kings in derision. The distrust of Achaz was punished by the loss of many of his subjects, but he was not dethroned, having engaged the Egyptians and Assyrians to attack his enemies. v. 17.
• Ver. 6. Tabeel. Chal. “whom we shall think proper.” He will not so much as name him.
• Ver. 8. Rasin. Both the king and his capital shall be ruined. — And five. Capellus (p. 497.) would read six and five; or, in eleven years time. But (C.) Ephraim was led captive twenty-one years after, and the Cutheans took their place when sixty-five years had elapsed. A. 3327. Usher — Most people date from the prophecy of Amos to the ruin of Samaria, just sixty-five years. The former solution seems preferable. C.
• Ver. 9. Continue. Sept. “and will not understand, even the Lord,” &c. H. — Heb. “and since you do not believe,” (C.) or “because you are not confirmed” by a miracle. Grot.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 11:20-24

• Ver. 21. Woe to thee, Corozain, &c. These four verses shew us how dangerous it is to resist the divine graces, and not to make good use of those favourable opportunities which the divine Providence hat placed us in, of working our salvation and of improving ourselves in virtue and sanctity. Wi. — Sack-cloth and ashes, &c. It was the custom for those who were in mourning, to be clothed with sack-cloth, and sit in ashes. M.
• Ver. 22. More tolerable, &c. For as the fault of him who never had the truth announced to him, was less than of him who rejected it when offered, so also his punishment would be less. M.
• Ver. 23. If we compare this with Luke x. 15, it will appear that Jesus Christ made twice this reproach to these two impenitent cities. V.