Daily Bible Readings Wednesday October 15 2008 Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church

October 15 2008 Wednesday Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church
Saint of the Day – St. Teresa of Avila

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Galatians 5:18-25
Haydock New Testament

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are, fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, contentions, emulations, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things, shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they who are Christ’s, have crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscences. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.

Psalm 1
DR Challoner Text Only

Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:
But his will is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he shall meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters,
which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season.
And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust,
which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment:
nor sinners in the council of the just.
For the Lord knoweth the way of the just:
and the way of the wicked shall perish.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 11:42-46
Haydock New Testament

Jesus continued:

But wo to you Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue, and every herb, and pass over judgment, and the charity of God: Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone. Wo to you Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market-place. Wo to you, because you are as sepulchers that appear not, and men that walk over them are not aware.

Then one of the lawyers answering, said to him:

Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

But he said:

Wo to you lawyers also: because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Haydock Commentary Galatians 5:18-25
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver 19-21. Uncleanness, immodesty, luxury. In the Greek there are but two vices named; luxury is not mentioned; and, perhaps, the Latin interpreter put two words to explain one Greek word. Wi. — S. Austin here sheweth that there are other damnable sins besides infidelity.
• Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is charity, &c. There are numbered twelve of these fruits in the Latin, though but nine in the Greek text, in S. Chrys. S. Jerom. S. Aug. tract. lxxxvii. in Joan. p. 756. The difference may again happen by the Latin interpreter using two words to express one Greek word. It is observed, that longanimity and patience are in a manner the same; so are benignity and goodness; and so may be here continency and chastity. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Luke 11:42-46

• Ver. 43. Salutations in the market-place, &c. Such as wish to be saluted, and have the first places, that they may appear great, are likened to sepulchres, which are covered externally with ornaments, but are filled inwardly with rottenness. S. Cyril ex D. Thoma.
• Ver. 44. Sepulchres that appear not. This comparison is partly different from that of Matt. xxiii. 27. For there Christ compares hypocrites to whitened sepulchres, which may be seen and avoided; here he compares them to sepulchres covered with grass, which appear not: yet the comparison, in the main, is the same; that whether they appear or not, still under them is corruption: as the interior of the Pharisees was always full of vice and corruption. Wi. — Men that walk, &c. Because they bear with them a fair outside, but are made up of nothing but corruption. S. Ambrose.
• Ver. 45. Then one of the lawyers, &c. Correction, which turns to the advantage of the meek, appears always more intolerable to the wicked. Christ denounces woes against the Pharisees for deviating from the right path, and the doctors of the law found them equally applicable to themselves. S. Cyril ex D. Thoma. — How miserable is the conscience which, upon hearing the word of God, thinks itself insulted, and always hears the punishment of the reprobate rehearsed as the words of its own condemnation. Ven. Bede.