Daily Bible Readings Tuesday October 7 2008 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary

October 7 2008 Tuesday Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
Saint of the Day – Our Lady of the Rosary

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ONCE AGAIN – Call Upon Mary, by St Bernard

Galatians 1:13-24
Haydock New Testament

For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God, and laid it to waste, And I made progress in the Jews’ religion, above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. Neither went I to Jerusalem to the apostles, who were before me; but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus: Then after three years, I came to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days: But other of the apostles I saw none, except James, the brother of the Lord.

Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria, and Cilicia. And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ: But they had heard only: He, that persecuted us in times past, doth now preach the faith which once he impugned: And they glorified God in me.

Responsorial Psalm 138:1b-3, 13-15 (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.
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, and my soul knoweth right well.
My bone is not hidden from thee,
which thou hast made in secret:
and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 10:38-42
Haydock New Testament

Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman, named Martha, received him into her house: And she had a sister, called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord’s feet, heard his word. But Martha was busy about much serving: who stood, and said:

Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak to her, therefore, that she help me.

And the Lord answering, said to her:

Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled by many things. But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Haydock Commentary Galatians 1:13-24
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 14. He here alludes to his being a Pharisee, as he himself mentions more openly in Acts xxiii. 6. A Pharisee, and son of Pharisees. This sect always distinguished itself by its zeal for ancient traditions, which shews evidently that he was very far from being instructed in a religion of which he was the sworn enemy; nor since his conversion did he apply for instruction. What he delivered, he learned not of man, but of God. See below.
• Ver. 16. I condescended not to flesh and blood. Lit. I did not acquiesce to flesh and blood. I had no regard to temporal friends or advantages. Some expound it, I did not think it necessary to consult the other apostles, men who were my countrymen: and so it follows, I came not to Jerusalem to the apostles, to be instructed by them, having been instructed by Christ himself. Wi.
• Ver. 17. So far from receiving his apostleship from the other apostles, he saw none of them, till he had spent three years in announcing the word of God. Calmet. — In this epistle to the Galatians, S. Paul treats the same matter as in his epistle to the Romans; to the former he writes less exactly and more briefly, as very rude and uncivilized; to the latter, with more precision, and with greater copiousness, as replenished with all knowledge: repleti omni scientia. Rom. xv. 14.
• Ver. 18. Then three years after, I came to Jerusalem to see (and as S. Chrys. says, out of respect to make a visit to) Peter, but staid only at Jerusalem fifteen days, and saw none of the apostles except him, and James, the brother, or cousin of our Lord; so that I was yet unknown by face to the Christian churches in Judea. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Luke 10:38-42

• Ver. 40. Calvin here ridicules the professors of evangelical poverty, because they gather from this place that there are two states of life, viz. the active and the contemplative, figured by Martha and Mary. But what will he answer, when he is informed, that this is the opinion not merely of monks, but even of a S. Austin, (Serm. xxvii, De verbis Domini,) of a S. Jerom, (Com. 3 cap. of Jeremiah,) of a S. Greg. and many others? Not that they were ignorant that there was another more natural explanation; but they were of opinion that nothing could be found more proper for the illustration of these different states of life. Maldonatus.
• Ver. 42. One thing is necessary. Some think that Christ’s meaning was, that Martha was preparing many dishes, when one was sufficient. But others, that this one thing necessary, was to learn, and comply with the will of God; which Mary was employed about. Wi.