Daily Bible Readings Tuesday October 14 2008 28th Week in Ordinary Time

October 14 2008 Tuesday 28^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Callistus I

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Galatians 5:1-6
Haydock New Testament

STAND firm, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. Behold I, Paul, tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to every man that circumciseth himself, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect to you; whosoever of you are justified by the law, you are fallen from grace. For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but fiath, which worketh by charity.

Responsorial Psalm 118:41, 43-45, 47-48
DR Challoner Text Only

Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord:
thy salvation according to thy word.
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth:
for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.
So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.
And I walked at large:
because I have sought after thy commandments.
I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved:
and I was exercised in thy justifications.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 11:37-41
Haydock New Testament

And as he was speaking a certain Pharisee prayed him to dine with him. And going in, he sat down to eat. And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. And the Lord said to him:

Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within? But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold all things are clean unto you.

Haydock Commentary Galatians 5:1-6
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• 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.
• Ver. 2. If you converted from heathenism be circumcised, it must be by believing and professing it necessary, which is false doctrine, and the Christ will profit you nothing: not that the practice of those ceremonies was at the time sinful, especially for those that had been Jews, but it was an error to judge them necessary for converted Gentiles. Besides, he that judges circumcision necessary, must also judge himself bound to keep all the other ceremonies and precepts of the law. Wi.
• Ver. 3. The false teachers had insisted on the observance of circumcision and a few other rites only, as necessary for salvation; but S. Paul assures them, that the receiving of circumcision is an open profession of Judaism, and that he that makes this profession, binds himself to the observance of every part of the law, since a curse is pronounced against those that do not keep it in all its parts. If then circumcision be necessary for salvation, the whole law is necessary also. Calmet.
• Ver. 4. If you think that justice cannot be obtained but under the law, you make a renunciation of the justice of Christ: his mediation becomes of no avail to you. Calmet.
• Ver. 5-6. We in spirit hope for true justice by faith in Christ; yet not by faith only, but by faith working by charity. Wi. — Here note with S. Austin, that faith is not to be idle, but working or doing good works in charity: wherefore not faith alone. De opere et fide. c. xiv.

Haydock Commentary Luke 11:37-41

• Ver. 38. Washed, &c. There was nothing ordained by the law concerning this washing of the hands, which the Pharisees observed before taking meat. Christ and his apostles washed their hands when they pleased, without looking for any mystery in such things, or making to themselves vain obligations in frivolous and indifferent things. They did not neglect what was ordained by the law in certain cases for purification; but beside that, they observed nothing more. Calmet.
• Ver. 41. But yet that which remaineth, give alms.[1] The sense seems not to be of what remaineth, give alms, as some expound it; but by the Greek, the sense is, give alms of what you have, i.e. of your goods, according to your abilities; and as Tobias said to his son, If thou hast much, give much; if little, give a little willingly. Tob. iv. 9. — All things are clean unto you. Not that alms without other pious dispositions, will suffice to your salvation; but that other necessary virtues will be given you, by the mercies of God. Wi. — These are the means I propose to you to gain that interior purity I am speaking of. But will alms suffice to expiate all sorts of crimes? Is it enough for the murderer, the homicide, &c. to give alms? Undoubtedly not. Our Saviour only compares alms-deeds with the exterior washing which the Pharisees affected. As if he had said, “It is not by the washing in common water that you will take out the stains of your souls, by the works of charity. Charity will be more efficacious to cleanse you than all the waters of the rivers and of the sea.” Or, according to Euthymius, if you wish to cleanse yourselves truly, bring forth worthy fruits of penance, give up ill acquired possessions; and as for the rest, redeem you sins by alms. Thus shall all things be made clean to you, as well within as without the vase. Calmet