Daily Bible Readings Monday October 26 2008 30th Week in Ordinary Time

October 27 2008 Monday 30^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Blessed Contardo Ferrini

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.

Official Readings of the Liturgy at – http://www.usccb.org/nab/102708.shtml

Ephesians 4:32–5:8
Haydock New Testament

And be ye kind one to another, merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ. BE ye, therefore, followers of God, as most dear children: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God, for an odour of sweetness. But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as it becometh saints: Nor obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

For know ye this, and understand, that no fornicator, nor unclean, nor covetous person, which is a serving of idols, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not, therefore, partakers with them. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk ye as children of the light:

Responsorial Psalm 1:1-6
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 13:10-17
Haydock New Testament

And he was teaching in their synagogue on the sabbath. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was bent down, and could not look upwards at all. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said to her:

Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.

And he laid hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue, being angry that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answering, said to the multitude:

There are six days wherein you ought to work: in them therefore come, and be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.

And the Lord answering him, said:

Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the Sabbath-day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water? And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-day?

And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.

Haydock Commentary Ephesians 4:32–5:8
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 3. Covetousness.[1] The Latin word is generally taken for a coveting or immoderate desire of money and riches. S. Jerom and others observe, that the Greek word in this an divers other places in the New Testament may signify any unsatiable desire, or the lusts of sensual pleasures; and on this account, S. Jerom thinks that it is here joined with fornication and uncleanness. But S. Chrys. in the last chapter, (v. 19. hom. xiii. and on this chap. v. 3.) shews that by the Greek word is understood avarice, or an immoderate desire of riches, when he tells (hom. xviii) that this sin is condemned by those words of Christ, Luke xvi. 13. You cannot serve God and mammon. Wi.
• Ver. 4. Nor obscenity.[2] What is here meant by this word, S. Chrys. tells us at large in the moral exhortation after his 17th homily; to wit, jests with immodest suggestions or a double meaning, and raillery or buffoonery against the rules of good conversation, scarce made use of by any but by men of low condition and a mean genius, which is not to the purpose of a Christian, who must give an account to God of all his words. Wi.
• Ver. 5. Nor covetous person, which is a serving of idols. It is clear enough by the Greek that the covetous man is called an idolater, whose idol in mammon; though it may be also said of other sinners, that the vices they are addicted to are their idols. Wi.
• Ver. 6. The apostle here puts them in mind of the general judgment, when the angel of God will, on account of their crimes of avarice, fornication, &c. fall on the children of unbelief; by which are meant the wicked. He had before assured them that the perpetrators of such crimes would be excluded from the kingdom of heaven; and now he moreover informs them, that the severest punishments will be inflicted on such wicked persons. Estius.
• Ver. 7. Be ye not, therefore, partakers with them: do not imitate their wickedness, or the wrath of the Almighty will likewise fall on you. Estius.
• Ver. 8. By darkness is here meant the state of infidelity into which they had been plunged so far as to adore stones as God, and committed without remorse the above-mentioned grievous sins. But delivered by Christ from this darkness, they have become light in the Lord, shining in faith and justice. Estius.

Haydock Commentary Luke 13:10-17

• Ver. 14. The president of the synagogue, when he saw the woman, who before crept on the ground, now raised by the touch of Christ, and hearing the mandate of God, was filled with envy, and decried the miracle, apparently through solicitude for keeping the sabbath. But the truth is, he would rather see the poor woman bent to the earth like a beast, than see Christ glorified by healing her. S. Cyril ex D Thoma Aquin.

Two Rosary Sites

Two sites to help you learn the Rosary meditations. This is especially for those of you who don’t understand the Rosary and think that recitation of the Rosary is just a bunch of Hail Mary’s and Our Father’s. Both sites offer their variations of the Rosary meditations, with a bead by bead meditation to help you. If you’re struggling with the Rosary you can choose one or the other, or both, and use these to aid you in learning the Rosary.

The Rosary is often called the scourge of the devil or a weapon against the devil. Part of the reason for this is the power of the meditations. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself.

Here are the sites:

http://www.rosary-center.org/howto.htm

http://www.catholicsource.net/rosary/rosarymain.html

Thanks to Ragamufin for mentioning the second link.