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Tobinatorstark has started another Daily Bible readings blog from another Catholic translation of the Latin Vulgate. The Ronald Knox translation, with Douay Challoner for the Old Testament, accompanied by the Latin Vulgate text and Haydock Commentary. The Knox translation is a predecessor to many modern Bible translations in the sense that it is less literal and more literary, but it keeps with the Latin tradition whereas newer translations rely on the oldest Greek texts. Both are good. It might be especially helpful for students of Latin to have a translation in a more modern form of English.

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Daily Bible Readings Monday October 13 2008 28th Week in Ordinary Time

October 13 2008 Monday 28^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/101308.shtml

Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1
Haydock New Testament
I included the entire passage for this.

But he that was by the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he by the free-woman, according to the promise. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two testaments. The one indeed on Mount Sina, bringing forth unto bondage, which is Agar. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath an affinity with that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free; which is our mother. For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not; break forth and cry out, thou that travailest not; for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise. But as then he, who was born according to the flesh, persecuted him who was according to the spirit: so also now. But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman. Therefore, brethren, we are not the children of the bond-woman, but of the free; by the freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free.

STAND firm, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Responsorial Psalm 112:1b-5a and 6-7
DR Challoner Text Only

Praise the Lord, ye children:
praise ye the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
from henceforth now and for ever.
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same,
the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.
The Lord is high above all nations;
and his glory above the heavens.
Who is as the Lord our God,
who dwelleth on high:
and looketh down on the low things
in heaven and in earth?
Raising up the needy from the earth,
and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 11:29-32
Haydock New Testament

And when the people were gathered together, he began to say:

This generation is a wicked generation: they ask a sign, and a sign shall not be given them, but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninivites, so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

The Queen of the South shall rise in judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold more than Solomon here.

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they did penance at the preaching of Jonah; and behold more than Jonah here.

Haydock Commentary Galatians 4:22-5:1
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 22. It is written in the law, that is, in Genesis, (c. xvi. and c. xxi.) that Abraham had two sons, &c. that his two sons, Ismael, born of his servant, Agar, and Isaac of his wife, Sara, in an allegorical sense, represent the two testaments or covenants, which God made with his people: that by Ismael was represented that covenant of the former law delivered to Moses on Mount Sina, by which the Jews were made his elect people, yet as it were his servants, to be kept to their duty by fear of punishments; but by Isaac is represented the new covenant or testament of Christ, given at Jerusalem, where he suffered, where the new law was first published; by which law, they who believe in Christ were made the spiritual children of Abraham, the sons of God, and heirs of the blessings promised to Abraham: that Sina, the mountain in Arabia, hath[3] an affinity with Jerusalem, and with here children, who remain under the servitude of the law of Moses: we cannot understand a conjunction, or an affinity, as to place and situation, Sina and Jerusalem being nearly twenty days’ journey distant from each other; therefore it can only be an affinity in a mystical signification, inasmuch as Jerusalem was the capital of the Jews, where the children of those who received the law on Mount Sina lived still under the servitude of the same law: but Christians, who believe in Christ, must look upon themselves as belonging to Jerusalem, and not to the city of Jerusalem upon earth, but to the celestial Jerusalem in heaven, which is our mother, now no longer servants and slaves to the former law, but free, being made the sons of God by the grace of Christ, and heirs of heaven. And these blessings were promised to all nations, not only to the Jews, of which the much greater part remained obstinate, and refused to believe in Christ, but also particularly to the Gentiles, according to the prophecy of Isaias, (c. liv.) rejoice thou that hast been barren, like Sara, for a long time; i.e. rejoice, you Gentiles, hitherto left in idolatry, without knowledge or worship of the true God, now you shall have more children among you than among the Jews, who were his chosen people. Wi.
• Ver. 29. S. Paul makes another observation upon this example of Ismael and Isaac: that as Ismael was troublesome to Isaac, for which he and his mother were turned out of the family, so also now the Jews insulted and persecuted the Christians, who had been Gentiles; but God will protect them as heirs of the blessings promised: they shall be accounted the spiritual children of Abraham, while the Jews, with their carnal ceremonies, shall be cast off. Wi. — This, says S. Austin, is a figure of heretics, (who are the children of the bond-woman) unjustly persecuting the Catholic Church. Ep. 48.
• CHAPTER V.
• Ver. 1. Be not held again under the yoke of bondage, of the old law. Wi. — This verse must be understood in the same manner as the 9th verse of the preceding chapter. See the annotations upon it.

Haydock Commentary Luke 11:29-32

• Ver. 29. But the sign of Jonas. Instead of a prodigy in the heavens or in the air, I will give you one in the bosom of the earth, more wonderful than that of the prophet Jonas, who came out alive from the belly of the fish, which had swallowed him. Thus I will return alive from the bosom of the earth three days after my death. Calmet. — He gave them a sign, not from heaven, for they were unworthy to behold it, but from the deep; the sign of his incarnation, not of his divinity; of his passion, not of his glory. V. Bede.
• Ver. 31. Queen of the South shall condemn this generation, not by exercising the power of judgment against them, but by having performed an action which, when put in competition with theirs, will be found superior to them. V. Bede.