Daily Bible Readings Tuesday October 21 2008 29th Week in Ordinary Time

October 21 2008 Tuesday 29^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Hilarion

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.

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Ephesians 2:12-22
Haydock New Testament

That you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the society of Israel, and strangers to the covenants, having no hope fo the promise, and without God in this world. But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: Abolishing the law of commandments in decrees: that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace, And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself. And coming, he preached peace to you, who were afar off, and peace to them who were near.

For through him we have both access in one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow-citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God: Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: In whom all the building framed together, growth into a holy temple in the Lord; In whom you also are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Responsorial Psalm 84:9-14 (Ps 85 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me:
for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints:
and unto them that are converted to the heart.
Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him :
that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth have met each other:
justice and peace have kissed.
Truth is sprung out of the earth:
and justice hath looked down from heaven.
For the Lord will give goodness:
and our earth shall yield her fruit.
Justice shall walk before him:
and he shall set his steps in the way.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 12:35-38
Haydock New Testament

Jesus spake unto his disciples:

Let your loins be girded, and lamps burning in your hands, And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding: that when he cometh, and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen, I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and passing, will minister to them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or if he shall come in the third watch, and fine them so, blessed are those servants.

Haydock Commentary Ephesians 2:12-22
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 11-12. Be mindful that as for you, who are Gentiles, who were called an uncircumcised people by the circumcised Jews, that you were without Christ, without the hopes or expectation of the Messias, alienated from the conversation of those who were God’s elect people, and from the promises particularly made to them, that the Messias should be of their race: without God in this world, i.e. without the knowledge and the worship of God. But now by Christ, by believing in him, you who seemed to be far off, are made near by his blood, (v. 13) by him who died for all; for he hath brought peace to all men, breaking down by his incarnation and death that wall of partition, that enmity betwixt the Jews and Gentiles, making them but one; abolishing that former law, of so many ordinances,[1] precepts, and ceremonies, by decrees, (which may signify by his divine decrees; or rather, as S. Jerom expounds it by the Greek, abolishing the old law and its precepts by the precepts and doctrine of the new law) that he might reconcile to God both the Jews and Gentiles, that now they might be one mystical body, to wit, the Church of Christ, of which he is the head. Remember then that you are no longer strangers and foreigners, as you wer when the Jews were the only elect people of God: now, by faith and hope, you are fellow-citizens with the saints and with all the elect people of God: you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, (v. 20) who, by their prophecies concerning the Messias, and by their teaching and preaching of the gospel, are as it were subordinate foundation-stones under Christ, the chief founder and the chief corner-stone of his Church; in whom you also (Christians, at Ephesus, and all the faithful) are built up together, (v. 22) as parts of a spiritual edifice or temple, where God inhabits. Wi.
• Ver. 14. Christ destroyed the enmity which, like a wall of separation, stood between Jew and Gentile, and united them into one people. He did this in his flesh, by his own blood, or the sacrifice he made of his flesh on the cross. Calmet.
• Ver. 19. You are no longer strangers with regard to God and his holy alliance. You are no longer travellers and vagabonds, without a God, as you were before your conversion; not knowing to whom you belonged, nor finding in paganism either solid foundation or truth, neither hopes for this nor consolation for future life. But now you are become citizens of the same city as the saints, and domestics of the house of God. Calmet.
• Ver. 20. The Church is in this place said to be built upon the apostles and prophets; why not then upon S. Peter?

Haydock Commentary Luke 12:35-38

• Ver. 35. Let your loins be girded; i.e. be prepared to walk in the way of virtue; a comparison taken from the custom of the eastern people, who girded up their long garments, when they went about any business. Wi. — After our divine Saviour had given his disciples such excellent instructions, he wishes to lead them still farther in the path of perfection, by telling them to keep their loins girt, and to be prepared to obey the orders of their divine Master. By lamps burning in their hands he wished to insinuate, that they were not to pass their lives in obscurity, but to let their lights shine before men. Theophy.
• Ver. 38. In the first watch is childhood, the beginning of our existence, and by the second is understood manhood, and by the third is meant old age. He, therefore, who does not comply with our divine Master’s injunctions in the first or second watch, let him be careful not to lose his soul by neglecting to be converted to God in his old age. S. Greg. in S. Tho. Aquin.