Daily Bible Readings Saturday December 27 2008 Feast of St John the Apostle Third Day of Christmas

December 27 2008 Saturday Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist
3^rd Day in the Christmas Octave
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About the sources used. The readings on this site are from the Haydock Bible according to the daily Lectionary readings for the American Roman Catholic Church. The Haydock Bible contains traditional Catholic commentary and is free from copyright. Due to verse numbering differences and pastoral deletions in the actual Lectionary, these readings may at times vary from the actual readings.

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1 John 1:1-4
Haydock New Testament

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life; For the life was manifested: and we have seen, and do bear witness, and declare unto you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and hath appeared to us: That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice, and your joy may be full.

Psalm 96 (LXX/Latin) or 97 (Hebrew)
Douay-Rheims Challoner
For the same David, when his land was restored again to him.

The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice:
let many islands be glad.
Clouds and darkness are round about him:
justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.
A fire shall go before him,
and shall burn his enemies round about.
His lightnings have shone forth to the world:
the earth saw and trembled.
The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord:
at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.
Let them be all confounded that adore graven things,
and that glory in their idols.
Adore him, all you his angels:
Sion heard, and was glad.
And the daughters of Juda rejoiced,
because of thy judgments, O Lord.
For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth:
thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.
You that love the Lord, hate evil:
the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints,
he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.
Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.
Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord:
and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

The Gospel According to Saint John 20:1-8
Haydock NT

And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene cometh in the morning, it being yet dark, to the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith to them;

They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

Peter, therefore, went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the sepulchre. And they both ran together, and that other disciple out-ran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And when he stopped down, he saw the linen clothes lying; but yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying, And the napkin, that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapt up into one place.

Then the other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulchre; and he saw, and believed.

Haydock Commentary 1 John 1:1-4

• Ver. 1. The first two verses and part of the third have a great conformity with the beginning of S. John’s gospel. The construction is somewhat obscure, unless we observe that the second verse is to be taken by way of a parenthesis, and the sense is not complete till these words, we declare to you, &c. The whole may be expressed in this literal paraphrase: We declare and preach to you the eternal and always living word, which was from the beginning, (for this word which was with the Father from eternity, hath appeared, and manifested himself to us, when he took upon him our human nature, and was made flesh.) This word I say, incarnate, we have seen with out eyes, we have heard him preach his gospel, we have touched his true body with our hands, as we witness and declare to you, that you may have fellowship with us, and be made partakers of the graces which God came from heaven to bestow upon mankind, to make us his adoptive sons and heirs of heaven. Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 20:1-8

• Ver. 1. As our Saviour had been interred in great haste, the holy women who had before accompanied Jesus in all his journeys, brought perfumes to embalm his sacred body again, in a manner more proper, than Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea had been able to do before. S. John makes mention of Mary Magdalene only, because it was his intention to give a particular relation of all that she did: but we learn from the other evangelists, that there were three holy women at the sepulchre together, viz. Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome. Calmet.—This was on the first day of the week, the morrow of the Sabbath. V.—Christ rose again, leaving the stone and seals still lying on the sepulchre. But as this was to be believed by others also, after the resurrection, the tomb was opened, and thus the belief of what had taken place, propagated. This it was that struck Magdalene; for as soon as she saw the stone rolled from the sepulchre, without entering, or even looking into it, she immediately ran, in the ardour of her affection, to carry the news to the disciples. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxiv. in Joan.
• Ver. 5. He saw the linens cloths lying. S. Chrys. takes notice, that Christ’s body being buried with myrrh, the linen would stick as fast to the body as pitch, so that it would be impossible to steal, to take away the body without the linen cloths. Wi.
• Ver. 8. He saw and believed. He did not yet believe that Jesus was risen from the dead, because he was still ignorant that he was to rise from the dead. For although the apostles had so often heard their divine Master speak in the most plain terms of his resurrection, still being so much accustomed to parables, they did not understand, and imagined something else was meant by these words. S. Aug. tract. 120. in Joan.