Sunday Bible Readings October 26 2008 30th Week in Ordinary Time

October 26 2008 30^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Exodus 22:20-26
Douay-Rheims Challoner

He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry: And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries. If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Responsorial Psalm 17:2-4, 47, 51
DR Challoner Text Only

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer.
My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust.
My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
Praising, I will call upon the Lord:
and I shall be saved from my enemies.
The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God,
and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Giving great deliverance to his king,
and shewing mercy to David, his anointed:
and to his seed for ever.

1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10
Haydock New Testament

You know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became followers of us, and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Ghost: So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia, and in Achaia.

For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place, your faith which is towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entrance we had unto you: and how you were converted to God from idols, to serve the living and true God. And to wait for his Son from heaven, (whom he raised from the dead) Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 22:34-40
Haydock New Testament

And the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together: And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

Jesus said to him:

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and first commandment.

And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

Haydock Commentary Exodus 22:20-26
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 20. Death. Heb. “shall be anathema,” (erom) which denotes utter destruction both of the person and of his goods. Jonat. 1 K. xv. 3.
• Ver. 21. Were strangers. The Celtes punished with death the murderer of a stranger, which they only banished him who murdered a citizen. C.
• Ver. 24. Fatherless. Thus God will retaliate upon the oppressors of the poor. H.
• Ver. 25. Poor. Such are often most in want. Usury is not lawful, even with respect to the rich. The Heb. terms it a bite. M. — “What is usury, said Cato, but to kill a man.” The Romans required thieves to restore double, but usurers were to render four times as much as they had taken. Varro Rustic. i. — Restitution is prescribed, 2 Esd. v. 11. Some Calvinists have stood up in its defence, in opposition to the Scriptures, fathers, and Councils of the Catholic Church. Lend, hoping to gain nothing by it. Lu. vi. 35. “Let him who loves money,…lend (in the persons of the poor) to Him who says, Give, and it shall be given to you.“ S. Leo ser. The Jews themselves have reprobated usury in any use. C.

Haydock Commentary 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

• Ver. 5. In power. The sense is, I have preached the gospel to you, not only in words of persuasion, but have proved it by the power of miracles, in much fulness, or in great abundance. I have also taught you the gospel not by my words only, but by my actions; for you know what kind of a life I led among you. I had no interest but in gaining your souls. And I rejoice to hear you have received it in much power, by the Holy Ghost working within you. A. — And in much fulness.[1] Some would have the Greek word to signify in a full assurance; but in the style of the New Testament, it may as well signify a fulness, or plentitude. Wi.
• Ver. 8. From you was spread abroad the word.[2] The Greek, was sounded about. — In every place. In very many places. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 22:34-40

• Ver. 34. The Pharisees heard that he had silenced their adversaries, the Sadducees, &c. Some of them, says S. Luke, (xx. 39.) applauded him, saying, Master, thou hast said well. Wi. — The Pharisees assembled themselves together, that they might confound him by their numbers, whom they could not by their arguments. Wherefore they said one to another: let one speak for all, and all speak by one, that if one be reduced to silence, he alone may appear to be refuted; and, if he is victorious, we may all appear conquerors. Hence it is said, And one of them, a doctor of the law, (S. Chrysostom) asked him, tempting him, if he were really possessed of that wisdom and that knowledge which people so much admired in him. V.
• Ver. 40. On these two, &c. Whereby it is evident that all dependeth not upon faith only, though faith be the first, but much more upon charity, which is the love of God and of our neighbour, and which is the sum of all the law and the prophets; because he that hath this double charity, expressed here by these two principal commandments, fulfilleth all that is commanded in the law and the prophets. B.