Daily Bible Readings Wednesday October 29 2008 30th Week in Ordinary Time

October 29 2008 Wednesday 30^th Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Narcissus of Jerusalem

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Ephesians 6:1-9
Haydock New Testament

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father, and thy mother, which is the first commandment, with a promise; That is may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth. And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. Servants, obey your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as Christ: Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with a good will doing service, as to the Lord and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good every one shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond, or free. And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening; knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven: and there is no respect of persons with him.

Responsorial Psalm 144:10-14 (Ps 145 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee:
and let thy saints bless thee.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom:
and shall tell of thy power:
To make thy might known to the sons of men:
and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.
Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages:
and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
The Lord is faithful in all his words:
and holy in all his works.
The Lord lifteth up all that fall:
and setteth up all that are cast down.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 13:22-30
Haydock New Testament

And he went through the cities and towns teaching, and making his journey to Jerusalem. And a certain man said to him:

Lord, are they few that are saved?

But he said to them:

Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able. But when the master of the house shall be gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying:

Lord, open to us:

and he answering, shall say to you:

I know you not whence you are.

Then you shall begin to say:

We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou has taught in our streets.

And he shall say to you:

I know you not whence you are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth: when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. And there shall come from the east, and the west, and the north, and the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And behold they are last who shall be first, and they are first who shall be last.

Haydock Commentary Ephesians 6:1-9
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 2. With a promise. This commandment being delivered with a special promise of a long life, which promise is to be understood conditionally, especially in regard to Christians, i.e. unless it be a greater favour to be taken out of the world young. Wi.
• Ver. 5. Your carnal; temporal masters, whether Christians or heathens. Wi.
• Ver. 6. Not serving to the eye; to please men only, but to do the will of God. Wi.
• Ver. 9. Forbearing threatenings; forbearing, and remitting the punishments which you might perhaps threaten them with, and they deserve. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Luke 13:22-30

• Ver. 24. Shall seek, &c. Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains, and not being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to it. Ch. — Our Lord answers here in the affirmative: viz. that the number of those who are saved, is very small, for a few only can enter by the narrow gate. Therefore does he say, according to S. Matthew, (C. vii.) Narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that enter therein. This does not contradict what is said in the 8th chapter of S. Matthew: That many shall come from the east, and sit down in the kingdom of God; for many indeed shall join the blessed company of the angels, but when considered with the number of the slain, they will appear but few. S. Aust. ser. xxxii. de Verb. Dei.
• Ver. 25. When the Almighty casts any off, he is said not to know them: in the same manner as a lover of truth may be said not to know how to tell a falsehood, being withheld powerfully from it by his love of truth. S. Greg. mor. c. 8.
• Ver. 26. These words are addressed particularly to the Jews, because Christ was born of them according to the flesh, eat and drank with them, and taught publicly in their streets; but they apply to us Christians also, for we eat the body of Christ, and drink his blood, when each day we approach the mystical table, and hear him teaching us in the streets of our souls. Theophylactus. — Many very fervent at the beginning afterwards grow lukewarm; and many, though at first frozen, have suddenly glowed with virtue; many, who in this world were contemned, have received glory in the next; while others, in honour amongst men, have passed to eternal torments. Ven. Bede.