Daily Bible Readings Monday October 20 2008 29th Week in Ordinary Time

October 20 2008 Monday 29^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Blessed James of Strepar

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Ephesians 2:1-10
Haydock New Testament

AND you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief, Among whom also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: But God, who is rich in mercy, through his exceeding charity, with which he hath loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved) And hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in goodness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: for it is a gift of God; Not of works, that no man may glory. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, in good works; which God hath prepared, that we should walk in them.

Responsorial Psalm 99:2-5 (Ps 100 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Sing joyfully to God, all the earth:
serve ye the Lord with gladness.
Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.
Know ye that the Lord he is God:
he made us, and not we ourselves.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns:
and give glory to him. Praise ye his name:
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever,
and his truth to generation and generation.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 12:13-21
Haydock New Testament

And one of the multitude said to him:

Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.

But he said to him:

Man, who hath made me a judge or a divider over you?

And he said to them:

Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man’s life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.

And he spoke a similitude to them, saying:

The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. And he thought within himself, saying:

What shall I do, because I have no place to lay up together my fruits?

And he said:

This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me, and my goods. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thy rest, eat, drink, make good cheer.

But God said to him:

Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

Haydock Commentary Ephesians 2:1-10
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. He enlivened you, when you were dead. These words, he enlivened or restored to life, are necessary to express the literal sense and construction, as appears from the following fifth verse. by what is here translated offences, are commonly understood trespasses less grievous than by the word sins. Wi. — God hath quickened you, or restored you to life; these words, expressed in v. 5, are understood in this: in some editions they are expressed. V.
• Ver. 2. According to the course of this world, (i.e. the customs of this wicked corrupt world) according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit, &c. meaning the devils, who are permitted to exercise their power upon the earth, or in the air. See Jo. xii. 10. xiv. 30. xvi. 11. Wi. — Secundum sæculum mundi hujus: according to the custom of this world. You were dead to the eyes of God, but you live in the eyes of the world: and how do you live? according to the maxims of the world, in idolatry, in crime, in corruption of manners. Corrumpi et corrumpere sæculum est. Tacitus. Calmet.
• Ver. 3. Among whom, &c. S. Jerom (p. 3) refers it to trespasses or sins. — Were by nature; not by nature according to the state of man’s first creation in paradise, but by nature infected with original sin by the fall of our first parents. — Even as the rest; that is, all mankind. Wi.
• Ver. 4, &c. But God . . . hath raised up together, both Gentiles and Jews, to life in Christ, remitting our sins by faith in him, and by the grace of our merciful Redeemer, by his pure mercy, not by any works of ours, nor merely by the works of the former law. — Hath made us in a condition to sit together in heavenly places, to be hereafter crowned in heaven. Wi.
• Ver. 5. Quickened us together in Christ. Faith, baptism, and grace, are pledges of our future resurrection and glorification in heaven. Our present conversion is also a kind of resurrection. The time is come, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. S. Aug. upon S. John, No. 7.
• Ver. 8. Faith is the beginning, foundation, and the root of justification, and the first of all other virtues, without which it is impossible to please God. B.
• Ver. 9. Not of works, as of our own growth, or from ourselves: but as from the grace of God. Ch.
• Ver. 10. Fir we are his workmanship, not only as to our body and soul, but by a new creation in Christ Jesus, with a new heart by his grace. Wi. — S. Paul now compares our conversion to creation, to shew that we had been called and justified without preceding merit. In the same manner as the things which God has drawn out of nothing, cannot glory as if they had contributed any thing to their existence. S. Jerom. hic.

Haydock Commentary Luke 12:13-21

• Ver. 13. The inheritance. This man might think, that Jesus being the Messias, would act like a king and a judge. Wi. — Speak to my brother, &c. See in this the spirit of this world, at the very time Jesus is teaching disinterestedness, and the contempt of riches, he is interrupted by a man, who begs him to interfere in a temporal concern: deaf to every thing else, this man can think of his temporal interest only. Calmet. — He begged half an inheritance on earth; the Lord offered him a whole one in heaven: he gave him more than he asked for. S. Aug..
• Ver. 14. Judge, &c. Our Saviour does not here mean to say that he or his Church had not authority to judge, as the Anabaptists foolishly pretend; for he was appointed by the Father, the King of kings, and the Lord and Judge of all. He only wished to keep himself as much detached as possible from worldly concerns: 1. Not to favour the opinion of the carnal Jews, who expected a powerful king for the Messias. 2. To shew that the ecclesiastical ministry was entirely distinct from political government, and that he and his ministers were sent not to take care of earthly kingdoms, but to seek after and prepare men for a heavenly inheritance. S. Ambrose, Euthymius, Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 19. Much goods, &c. It is evident how far this poor man was mistaken, when he called these things goods, which with more reason ought to be esteemed evils. The only things that can rightly be called goods, are humility, modesty, and its other attendants. The opposite to these ought to be esteemed evils; and riches we ought to consider as indifferent. S. Chrys..