Daily Bible Readings Friday October 3 2008 26th Week in Ordinary Time

October 3 2008 Friday 26^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Mother Theodore Guérin

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Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
Douay-Rheims Challoner

Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:

Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment. From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep? Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors? Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things.

Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness? That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified? And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly garments.

Responsorial Psalm 138:1-3, 7-10, 13-14ab (Ps 139 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off:
my path and my line thou hast searched out.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
or whither shall I flee from thy face?
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there:
if I descend into hell, thou art present.
If I take my wings early in the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
Even there also shall thy hand lead me:
and thy right hand shall hold me.
For thou hast possessed my reins:
thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified:
wonderful are thy works

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 10:13-16
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

Wo to thee, Corozain, wo to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought in you, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sack-cloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, at the judgment, than for you.
And thou, Capharnaum, which are exalted unto heaven: thou shalt be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despiseth you, despiseth me. And he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.

Haydock Commentary Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Then. Sept. “After Eliu had ceased to speak.” H. — Lord. That is, an angel speaking in the name of the Lord. Ch. — The name Jehova (H.) here occurs, though it never does in the speeches; whence many have inferred that the Lord spoke in person; which argument, however, is not conclusive; and that this work was written after the apparition in the burning bush. C. — The Heb. edition would at least be given after that event. — Whirlwind, designed to strike the senses, (H.) and to represent the distressed condition of Job. Pineda. — This awful appearance imposed silence upon all. H. — Some think that a time was allowed for reflection and repentance, before God passed sentence; but the Sept. &c. seem to suppose that the cause was decided as soon as Eliu had ended his discourse. C. — God discusses the controversy, and gives sentence in favour of Job. W.
• Ver. 12. Place. Thou art but as yesterday: where is thy power? C.
• Ver. 13. And didst. Some explain Heb. “that it (Aurora) might spread at once to the extremities of the earth. Then the wicked flee before it;” as they hate the light. C. xxxiv. 26. Jo. iii. 20. C. — Sept. and Prot. may be understood in this sense. H. — Allusion may also be made to the shaking of a sieve, to separate the wheat from the chaff; (Amos ix. 9. Luk. xxii. 31. C.) or of a carpet, to clean it from the dust. D. — Did God ask thee to help him to exterminate the wicked? The short digression in these three verses, shews the punishment exercised on offenders. It is not contrary to the true spirit of poetry. M.
• Ver. 14. Seal. Men, formed to the image of God, shall die; and others shall be place in their stead, (M.) with as much ease as an impression is made upon clay. H. — Garment. The body seems to be the clothing of the soul, and will be changed. Ps. ci. 27. M. — Chal. “their form will be changed to clay, and they shall resemble a tattered garment.” Heb. “their seal shall be changed like clay,” &c. All their glory shall perish. C. — Sept. “hast thou taken earth or clay, and formed a living creature, and endued it with speech on the earth?” Is man the workd of thy hands? H.
• Ver. 17. Doors? Sept. “through fear; or have the porters of hell flown away at thy sight?” H.
• Ver. 19. Darkness. The poetical style of this book represents these things as real beings, in the same manner (C.) as the house, (v. 20) or palace of the sun, &c. are described by the ancients. H.
• JOB 40
• CHAPTER XL.
• Ver. 3. Judgment. Job had frequently acknowledged that God could not be in the wrong. But he had expressed himself in to forcible language, of which God makes him, as it were, ashamed. C. — Sept. “rejectest thou not my decision? yea, dost thou think that I have judged thee in a different manner, in order that thou mayst appear just?” H.

Haydock Commentary Luke 10:13-16

• Ver. 15. And thou, Capharnaum, &c. Capharnaum is situated on the western coast of the sea of Tiberias. Christ having left Nazareth, made the former city the usual place of his abode. There was no city in which he had preached so much, or wrought so many miracles. On this account, he said it was exalted to the heavens; but for its incredulity he threatens it shall be cast down even unto hell. Calmet.