Daily Bible Readings Monday July 21 2008 16th Week of Ordinary Time

July 21 2008 Monday 16^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Lawrence of Brindisi

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/072108.shtml – Note. The Official Liturgical readings may not match the current NAB you may have.

Micah 6:1-4, 6-8
DR Challoner

Hear ye what the Lord saith:

Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel. O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary.

What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Responsorial Psalm 49:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23 (Ps 50 NAB/Hebrew)
They really chop some of these up don’t they.
DR Challoner Text Only

Gather ye together his saints to him:
who set his covenant before sacrifices.
And the heavens shall declare his justice:
for God is judge.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices:
and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
I will not take calves out of thy house:
nor he goats out of thy flocks.
Why dost thou declare my justices,
and take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hast hated discipline:
and hast cast my words behind thee.
These things hast thou done,
and I was silent.
Thou thoughtest unjustly
that I should be like to thee:
but I will reprove thee,
and set before thy face.
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:
and there is the way by which I will shew him
the salvation of God.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 12:38-42
Haydock New Testament

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying:

Master, we would see a sign from thee.

But he answering, said to them:

An evil and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas, the prophet. For as Jonas was in the whale’s belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas is here.

The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon is here.

Haydock Commentary Micah (Micheas) 6:1-4, 6-8
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. The mountains, &c. That is, the princes, the great ones of the people. Ch. — But Heb. intimates real mountains, which had witnessed the impiety of the people, (C.) and had been defiled with their altars, &c. Prot. “Contend thou before the,” &c. (H.) as God’s advocate. He condescends to justify his conduct towards Israel. Is. iii. 13. C. — He had shewn them great favours, but they were ungrateful. Off. for good Frid. W.
• Ver. 4. Slaves. Their prison, in Algiers, &c. is dreadful. C. — Mary. She taught the women. Chal. Theod. — She was a figure of Christ’s mother, as Moses and Aaron were of himself. W.
• Ver. 6. What shall I offer, &c. This is spoken in the person of the people, desiring to be informed what they are to do to please God. Ch. — They can answer nothing in their own defence.
• Ver. 7. Fat. Heb. “torrents of oil.” — First-born, like Jephte, or the king of Moab. Jud. xi. and 4 K. iii. 27. Saturn taught the Phœnicians this impiety. Eus. præp. iv. 16. C.
• Ver. 8. Solicitous. Heb. also, “humbly.” H. — This was preferable to all other sacrifices of the old law, (W.) and was frequently inculcated. Deut. x. 12. Ps. xlix. 9. Is. i. 11. Yet the carnal Jews always made perfection consist in exterior ceremonies.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 12:38-42

• Ver. 38. We would see a sign. They wanted to see some new and unusual miracles. They wished, says S. Jerom, either that he would call down fire from heaven, like Elias; or, like Samuel, cause it to rain, to thunder and lighten in summer, contrary to the nature of the country. M. — That they might be assured he was sent by God, and acted by his Spirit.
• Ver. 39. Sign of Jonas. I will give no other sign than my death and resurrection, as then, though unwillingly, they will acknowledge me, and people will believe and be converted: so in John (C. viii.) it is said, When you shall have exalted the Son of man, then you shall know that I am he. M.
• Ver. 40. In the whale’s belly.[4] The word signifies a great fish, and was not perhaps that which we commonly call a whale. In the prophet Jonas, it is called, a great fish. — Three days and three nights; not three whole days and three nights, but part of three natural days, from which, in common computation, the nights used not to be separated. We have an instance of this, Esther iv. 16, where the Jews were ordered to fast with her three days, and three nights: and yet (C. v, v. 1) Esther, after part of three days, went to the king. — In the heart of the earth: by which is signified, Christ’s descent into hell; as S. Paul says (Ephes. iv. 9.) that he descended into the inferior parts of the earth, and this cannot be understood of the grave only. Wi. — Jesus Christ expired on the cross about the ninth hour, or 3 p.m. when the general and supernatural darkness that covered the earth, may be counted for the first night, and the light which again appeared, for the term of the first day. V. — As Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites, so is Christ to the Jews; for as he by the prodigy of remaining so long in the fish’s belly, and afterwards coming forth alive, gave such authority to his preaching, that the Ninivites were converted; so Christ, by his death and resurrection on the third day, shall shew that he is the true Christ, and this generation shall acknowledge him for the Messias. M.
• Ver. 42. Queen of Saba, a province of Arabia, situated to the south of Judea. 3 K. x. 1. and seq.