Daily Bible Readings Tuesday February 17 2009 Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

February 17 2009 Tuesday Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Seven Founders of the Order of Servites

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Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10
Douay-Rheims Challoner

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, He said:

I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

But Noe found grace before the Lord. And the Lord said to him:

Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female. But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him. And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

Responsorial Psalm 28:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10 (Ps 29 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God
Bring to the Lord glory and honour:
Bring to the Lord glory to his name:
Adore ye the Lord in his holy court.
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is in power;
The voice of the Lord in magnificence.
The God of majesty hath thundered
And in his temple all shall speak his glory.
The Lord maketh the flood to dwell:
And the Lord shall sit king for ever.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 8:14-21
Haydock New Testament

And they forgot to take bread: and they had but one loaf with them in the ship. And he charged them, saying:

Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

And they reasoned among themselves, saying:

Because we have no bread.

Which Jesus knowing, saith to them:

Why do you reason, because you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither do you remember. When I broke five loaves among five thousand: how many baskets full of fragments took you up?

They say to him:

Twelve.

And when the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up?

And they say to him:

Seven.

And he said to them:

How do you not yet understand?

Haydock Commentary Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 5. At all times. Hebrew: only evil continually. They had no relish for any thing else: as we may say of a glutton, he thinks of nothing but his belly. Yet some good thoughts would occur occasionally, and we may grant that they did some things which were not sinful. M. — If we follow corrupt nature, and live among sinners, we find a law within us warring against the spirit; and a very powerful grace is necessary to rescue us from such a dangerous situation. C. — Though the expressions in this place seem general, they must be understood with some limitations. W.
• Ver. 6. It repented him, &c. God, who is unchangeable, is not capable of repentance, grief, or any other passion. But these expressions are used to declare the enormity of the sins of men, which was so provoking as to determine their Creator to destroy these his creatures, whom before he had so much favoured. Ch. — God acted outwardly as a man would do who repented. H.
• Ver. 8. Grace. Notwithstanding the general denunciation against all flesh, we see here that God will not confound the just with the guilty, in the same punishment. Noe pleased God, by observing the most perfect justice, in the midst of a corrupt generation. S. Chrys. &c. W.
• GENESIS 7
• Ver. 2. Of all clean. The distinction of clean and unclean beasts, appears to have been made before the law of Moses, which was not promulgated till the year of the world 2514. Ch. — Clean: not according to the law of Moses, which was not yet given, but such as tradition had described—fit for sacrifice; (M.) though they might be of the same species as were deemed clean in the law, which ratified the ancient institution. — And seven: (Heb.) simply seven, three couple and an odd female, for sacrifice after the deluge: one couple was to breed, the other two perhaps for food. H. — Some imagine, that there were fourteen unclean and four clean animals, of every species, in the ark, because the Sam., Sept., and Vulg. read, “seven and seven.” Origen, &c. — But our Saviour, sending the Disciples to preach two and two, did not appoint a company of four to go together, but only of two, as is generally allowed. Mark vi. 7. C.

Haydock Commentary Mark 8:14-21

• Ver. 15. Of the leaven of Herod. In S. Matt. c. xvi. v. 6, we read of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees: we may conclude that Christ named all of them. Wi.

Catena Aurea Mark 8:14-21
From Catechetics Online

• Theophylact: There follows: “Now they had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.”
• Bede: Some may ask, how they had no bread, when they had filled seven baskets just before they embarked in the ship. But Scripture relates that they had forgotten to take them with them, which is a proof how little care they had for the flesh in other things, since in their eagerness to follow the Lord, even the necessity of refreshing their bodies had escaped from their mind.
• Theophylact: By a special providence also the disciples forgot to take bread, that they might be blamed by Christ, and thus become better, and arrive at a knowledge of Christ’s power. For it goes on, “And He charged them, saying, Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.”
• Pseudo-Chrys., Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.: Matthew says, “of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees;” Luke, however, of the Pharisees only. All three, therefore, name the Pharisees, as being the most important of them, but Matthew and Mark have each mentioned one of the secondary sects; and fitly has Mark added “of Herod,” as a supplement to Matthew’s narrative, in which they were left out. But in saying this, He by degrees brings the disciples to understanding and faith.
• Theophylact: He means by leaven their hurtful and corrupt doctrine, full of the old malice, for the Herodians were the teachers, who said that Herod was the Christ.
• Bede: Or, the leaven of the Pharisees is making the decrees of the divine law inferior to the traditions of men, preaching the law in word, attacking it in deed, tempting the Lord, and disbelieving His doctrine and His works; but the leaven of Herod is adultery, murder, rash swearing, a pretence of religion, hatred to Christ and His forerunner.
• Theophylact: But the disciples themselves thought that the Lord spoke of the leaven of bread. Wherefore it goes on, “And they reasoned amongst themselves, saying, it is because we have no bread;” and this they said, as not understanding the power of Christ, who could make bread out of nothing; wherefore the Lord reproves them. For there follows: “And when Jesus knew it, He said unto them, Why reason ye because ye have no bread?”
• Bede: Taking occasion then from the precept, which He had commanded, saying, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod,” our Saviour teaches them what was the meaning of the five and the seven loaves, concerning which He adds, “And do ye not remember, when I brake the five loaves amongst five thousand, and how many baskets full of fragments ye took up?”
• For if the leaven mentioned above means perverse traditions, of course the food, with which the people of God was nourished, means the true doctrine.