Daily Bible Readings Tuesday July 22 2008 Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene

July 22 2008 Tuesday Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene
Saint of the Day – St. Mary Magdalene

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Micah (Micheas) 7:14-15, 18-20
DR Challoner

Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, I will shew him wonders.

Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Responsorial Psalm 84:2-8
DR Challoner Text Only

Lord, thou hast blessed thy land:
thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people:
thou hast covered all their sins.
Thou hast mitigated all thy anger:
thou hast turned away
from the wrath of thy indignation.
Convert us, O God our saviour:
and turn off thy anger from us.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever:
or wilt thou extend thy wrath
from generation to generation?
Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life:
and thy people shall rejoice in thee.
Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy;
and grant us thy salvation.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 20:1-2, 11-18
Haydock New Testament

AND on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene cometh in the morning, it being yet dark, to the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith to them;

They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping. Whilst she was then weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre: And she saw two Angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. They say to her;

Woman, why weepest thou?

She saith to them;

Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

When she had said this, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing: and she knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith to her;

Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?

She thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him;

Sir, if thou hast taken him away, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

Jesus saith to her;

Mary.

She turning, saith to him;

Rabboni, (that is to say, Master).

Jesus saith to her;

Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them; I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.

Mary Magdalene cometh, and telleth the disciples;

I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me.

Haydock Commentary (Micah) Micheas 7: 14-15, 18-20
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 14. Alone: destitute of all things, or in full security. Jer. xv. 17. Num. xxiii. 9. God will feed his people (C.) in the most fertile places, designated by Carmel and Basan. H. — A pastor must maintain sound doctrine and discipline. W.
• Ver. 15. Wonders. The prophets speaking of the return, have Christ and his religion in view; so that they seem not to find terms sufficiently magnificent. Is. ix. 15. and xliii. 16. Zac. x. 11. We know from Esdras that nothing so surprising attended the liberation of the people. C.
• Ver. 18. No more, for past offences. Yet, if they transgress again, they must not expect impunity. The Jews still bleed for the murder of the Messias. C.
• Ver. 19. Away. Prot. “subdue,” (H.) or trample upon. C.
• Ver. 20. Truth, performing what he had promised out of mercy to Abraham. W.

Haydock Commentary John 20:1-2, 11-18

• Ver. 1. As our Saviour had been interred in great haste, the holy women who had before accompanied Jesus in all his journeys, brought perfumes to embalm his sacred body again, in a manner more proper, than Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea had been able to do before. S. John makes mention of Mary Magdalene only, because it was his intention to give a particular relation of all that she did: but we learn from the other evangelists, that there were three holy women at the sepulchre together, viz. Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome. Calmet. — This was on the first day of the week, the morrow of the sabbath. V. — Christ rose again, leaving the stone and seals still lying on the sepulchre. But as this was to be believed by others also, after the resurrection, the tomb was opened, and thus the belief of what had taken place, propagated. This it was that struck Magdalene; for as soon as she saw the stone rolled from the sepulchre, without entering, or even looking into it, she immediately ran, in the ardour fo her affection, to carry the news to the disciples. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxiv. in Joan.
• Ver. 14. It may be asked, why Magdalene, after putting the question to the angels, turns around, without waiting for the answer. No doubt, as soon as she had spoken, the heavenly messengers perceived their Lord behind Mary, and by their looks and actions, gave her to understand that they beheld their Lord. This caused her immediately to look behind her. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxv. in Joan.
• Ver. 15. If thou hast taken him away. Thinking him, as the evangelist remarks, to be the gardener, how comes it, that without saying whom she sought, she asks if he had taken him away? Because such was the ardour of her love, that she could not imagine any one could think of any other but him, of whom her own mind was so full. S. Greg. hom. xxv. in Evan.
• Ver. 16. Jesus saith to her, Mary. Magdalene, now in grief and tears, knew not Jesus, till he called upon her by her name, and with his usual voice: then with joy, she cried out, Rabboni, Master. And Jesus saith to her, touch me not, &c. The meaning of which words seems to be: I am not yet leaving thee, nor ascending to the Father, so that thou mayest have time enough to embrace my feet afterwards; now go to my disciples, &c. Wi. — Magdalene, having inquired where he had placed him, appears to have turned towards the angels, to inquire the cause of the awe and reverence she had observed in them. Upon this, Jesus calls upon her by name, and she, turning again towards him, discovers him by his voice. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxv. in Joan.
• Ver. 17. I will not leave you again; be not in a hurry to touch me; you shall all have this pleasure. I will remain with you some time, before my ascension. Announce my resurrection to my apostles. You shall see me again. This is the interpretation most modern commentators put upon this place. Others suppose, that Magdalene imagined he was risen from the dead to live with men as before, like Lazarus. He addresses these words to her to disabuse her of this notion. Calmet.