Daily Bible Readings Monday July 28 2008 17th Week of Ordinary Time

July 28 2008 Monday 17^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Leopold Mandic

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Jeremiah 13:1-11
DR Challoner

Thus saith the Lord to me:

Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water.

And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins. And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying:

Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me. And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me:

Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle ,which is fit for no use. For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I brought close to me all the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

Deuteronomy 32:18-21
DR Challoner

Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee,
and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath:
because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
And he said: I will hide my face from them,
and will consider what their last end shall be:
for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
They have provoked me with that which was no god,
and have angered me with their vanities:
and I will provoke them with that which is no people,
and will vex them with a foolish nation.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 13:31-35
Haydock New Testament

Another parable he proposed to them, saying:

The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown up, it is greater than any herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.

Another parable he spoke to them:

The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. That the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Haydock Commentary Jeremiah 13:1-11
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Girdle, usually worn by women. S. Jer. Ex. xxviii. 42. — It denoted the Jews, who became more corrupt during the captivity; (v. 7. 11.) so that God delivered them out of his pure mercy. Thus He explains this prophetical action. C. — Loins. God cherished his people. M. — Water. He made choice of them when they were rough and deformed. S. Jer. — Their sins cause their ruin. H.
• Ver. 4. Euphrates, above 150 leagues distant. Some think this was only to be done in spirit: but it is generally supposed that the prophet made this long journey twice. Bochart suggests that Euphrates (Heb. Peratha) may be put for Ephrata, or Bethlehem, as the first syllable is often cut off. C. — Yet a journey to the Euphrates would represent more strikingly the destination of the people; and it would not be difficult for God to convey Jeremias thither in a short time, if requisite, as he sent Habacuc through the air to carry a dinner to Daniel; (xiv. 32.) though this supposition is not here necessary, as the labour to which Jeremias was repeatedly exposed, might shew the people their manifold transgressions and captivities. H. — Such prophetic actions make a deeper impression than words. Heb. i. The ingratitude of the people is here described, to C. xxi. W.
• Ver. 9. Rot. I will bring them low. M. — They shall see that all their dependance must be on the divine mercy.
• Ver. 11. Glory; that they might serve me for the edification of the world.

Haydock Commentary Deuteronomy 32:18-21

• Ver. 18. Created. Sept. “gave thee food.” Heb. “of the rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee, (H.) or praises thee,” the source of thy felicity. C. — Calvin (Instit. i. 11. 9,) to insinuate that Catholics adore pictures, as the Israelites did the golden calf, pretends that they could not have forgotten that God delivered them out of Egypt. Thus he contradicts the Scriptures! W.
• Ver. 19. Daughters. The women of Israel, who were not less addicted to idolatry than the men. H.
• Ver. 20. From them. The Jews themselves acknowledged, in the siege of Jerusalem, that God had abandoned and given up to destruction his once beloved people. Joseph. Bel. vii. 8. C. — Consider, or look on their utter ruin with indifference, or rather with complacency. H. — I will laugh at your destruction. Prov. i. 16. C. — God loves without seeing any preceding merit in his creatures, but he never abandons them till they have first proved unfaithful. W.
• Ver. 21. Vanities. Sept. “idols.” H. — Nation. The Gentiles were of this description, when they were called to the true faith. This excited the indignation of the Jews, as they would neither enter heaven themselves, nor suffer others to obtain that happiness. Rom. i. 19. Theod. q. 41. “An association bound together by law, constitutes a nation. A multitude which has no laws, or bad ones, is unworthy of the name.” Grot. — The Jews looked upon all others with sovereign contempt. C. — Now, in their turn, they are despised. W.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 13:31-35

• Ver. 32. The least of all seeds. That is, it is one of the least seeds; but in hot countries it is observed to grow to a considerable height, and to become a bush or a little tree. Wi. — The gospel of Christ, compared in this verse to the grain of mustard seed, has indeed little show of grandeur and human greatness. S. Paul calls it a scandal to the Jew, and a stumbling block to the Gentile. But Jesus Christ here assures us, that when it has been spread and promulgated by his ambassadors, viz. the apostles, it shall surpass every other mode of instruction both in fame and extent. S. Amb. S. Jer. S. Aug.
• Ver. 33. In three measures. Sata, the word here used, was a particular Hebrew measure, which corresponds not to any particular measure that we make use of, and therefore I have put measures, as it is in other English translations. See Walton de Ponderibus & mensuris, before his first tome. p. 42. Wi. — It was the Seah of the Jews, the third part of the Epha, and contained about ten pints, and appears to be the ordinary quantity they baked at a time. V. — By the woman here mentioned, S. Jerom understands the Church gathered from all nations; or the power and wisdom of God, according to S. Augustine.
• Ver. 35. By the prophet. It is taken from Psalm lxxvii. 2. S. Jerom remarks that many copies have, Isaias, the prophet, but supposes that the evangelist wrote, Asaph, the prophet, to whom the title of this psalm seems to attribute it; but it was probably chanted by Asaph, and composed by David, who is simply characterized under the name of prophet, because he prophesied in composing his canticles. V.