July 17 2008 Thursday 15th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Francis Solano
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/071708.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
DR Challoner
The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.
Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.
Responsorial Psalm 101:13-21 (Ps 102 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever:
and thy memorial to all generations.
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion:
for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants:
and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord,
and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
For the Lord hath built up Sion:
and he shall be seen in his glory.
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble:
and he hath not despised their petition.
Let these things be written unto another generation:
and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary:
from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters:
that he might release the children of the slain:
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 11:28-30
Haydock New Testament
Jesus said:
Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.
Haydock Commentary Isaias 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
- Ver. 7. In. God will remove every obstacle, at their return.
- Ver. 9. Night of distress.
- Ver. 12. Works, both in punishing and rewarding. C. — God crowns his own gifts. E.
- Ver. 16. They. Sept. “We,” &c. C. — Affliction is a wholesome medicine. H.
- Ver. 18. Wind. Our expectation of aid from others has been disappointed. C. — Sept. “the spirit of thy salvation, which thou hast wrought on the earth. We shall not fall, but the inhabitants of the earth shall fall.” H. — Their copies must have been different from ours. — Fallen. The Chanaanites are left for our trial and punishment. C.
- Ver. 19. Dead: a civil death, shall regain their liberty; and those who have left this world in a state of virtue, shall be happy. — Ruin. Cyrus liberated the Jews, having conquered Babylon.
Haydock Commentary Matthew 11:28-30
- Ver. 28. All you that, &c. That is, you who are wearied with the heavy load of your sins, and the grievous yoke of the old law. M.
- Ver. 29. Take up my yoke, &c. Fear not the yoke of Christ, for it is a yoke of the greatest sweetness. Be not disheartened when he mentions a burden, because it is a burden exceeding light. If then our Saviour says, that the way of virtue is exceeding narrow, and replete with difficulties and dangers, we must call to mind that it is so to the slothful only. Perform therefore with alacrity what is required, and then will all things be easy; the burden will be light, and the yoke sweet. S. Chrysos. hom. xxxix.
- Ver. 30. For my yoke is sweet, &c. For though, in regard of our weak nature, it be a very heavy yoke, yet the grace of God renders it easy and light, because our Lord himself helps us to bear it, according to that of the prophet Osee, (C. xi, v. 4) I will be unto them as he that takes the yoke from off their head. S. Bernard says, that our Saviour sweetens by the spiritual unction of his grace, all the crosses, penances, and mortifications of religious souls. S. Austin owns that before he knew the power of grace, he could never comprehend what charity was, nor believe that any one was able to practice it; but the grace of God renders all things easy. Rodriguez. On Mortification. C. xix.
Daily Bible Readings Thursday July 17 2008 15th Week of Ordinary Time
Posted by Bob on July 17, 2008
July 17 2008 Thursday 15th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Francis Solano
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/071708.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.
Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
DR Challoner
The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.
Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.
Responsorial Psalm 101:13-21 (Ps 102 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever:
and thy memorial to all generations.
Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion:
for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants:
and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.
All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord,
and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
For the Lord hath built up Sion:
and he shall be seen in his glory.
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble:
and he hath not despised their petition.
Let these things be written unto another generation:
and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary:
from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.
That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters:
that he might release the children of the slain:
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 11:28-30
Haydock New Testament
Jesus said:
Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.
Haydock Commentary Isaias 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
Haydock Commentary Matthew 11:28-30
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