Daily Bible Readings Friday August 22 2008 Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

August 22 2008 Friday Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint of the Day – Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Ezekiel 37:1-14
DR Challoner

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry. And he said to me:

Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live

and I answered:

O Lord God, thou knowest.

And he said to me:

Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one, its joint. And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in them. And he said to me:

Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.

And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. And he said to me:

Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off. Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people: And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:

Responsorial Psalm 106:2-9
DR Challoner Text Only

Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord,
whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy:
and gathered out of the countries.
From the rising and from the setting of the sun,
from the north and from the sea.
They wandered in a wilderness,
in a place without water:
they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
They were hungry and thirsty:
their soul fainted in them.
And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation:
and he delivered them out of their distresses.
And he led them into the right way,
that they might go to a city of habitation.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him:
and his wonderful works to the children of men.
For he hath satisfied the empty soul,
and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 22:34-40
Haydock New Testament

And the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together: And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

Jesus said to him:

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

Haydock Commentary Ezechiel 37:1-14
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Spirit, by a divine impulse. He was not really removed. M. C. — Bones. “This passage is very famous.” S. Jer. — It insinuates the liberation of the captives and of the Gentiles, as well as the mystery of the resurrection. W. — If this were not to take place, it would not be adduced as a figure. Tert. S. Jer.
• Ver. 5. Spirit. That is, life, soul, and breath. Ch. — At the resurrection, the same souls shall return to their respective bodies.
• Ver. 7. Noise of the bones moving, which denotes the wars of Cyrus and the hurry of the nations to which he restored liberty.
• Ver. 9. Spirit; wind or soul. The latter animates the body, as the grace (C.) of the Holy Spirit does the soul. H.
• Ver. 11. Off, like branches. Notwithstanding these desponding thoughts, God will restore his people, (W.) by means of Cyrus. The grave is often put for punishment and grievous calamities. Osee vi. 3.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 22:34-40

• Ver. 34. The Pharisees heard that he had silenced their adversaries, the Sadducees, &c. Some of them, says S. Luke, (xx. 39.) applauded him, saying, Master, thou hast said well. Wi. — The Pharisees assembled themselves together, that they might confound him by their numbers, whom they could not by their arguments. Wherefore they said one to another: let one speak for all, and all speak by one, that if one be reduced to silence, he alone may appear to be refuted; and, if he is victorious, we may all appear conquerors. Hence it is said, And one of them, a doctor of the law, (S. Chrysostom) asked him, tempting him, if he were really possessed of that wisdom and that knowledge which people so much admired in him. V.
• Ver. 40. On these two, &c. Whereby it is evident that all dependeth not upon faith only, though faith be the first, but much more upon charity, which is the love of God and of our neighbour, and which is the sum of all the law and the prophets; because he that hath this double charity, expressed here by these two principal commandments, fulfilleth all that is commanded in the law and the prophets. B.