March 23 2009 Monday Fourth Week of Lent
Saint of the Day – St. Turibius of Mogrovejo
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Isaiah 65:17-21
Douay Rheims Challoner
For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart. But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
Responsorial Psalm 29:2 and 4-6, 11-12a and 13b (Ps 30 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only
I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me:
and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell:
thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints:
and give praise to the memory of his holiness.
For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will.
In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.
The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me:
the Lord became my helper.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy
O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 4:43-54
Haydock New Testament
Now, after two days, he departed thence; and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath not honour in his own country. Then, when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day: for they also went to the festival day. He came again, therefore, into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler whose son was sick at Capharnaum. He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and prayed him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him:
Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.
The ruler saith to him:
Lord, come down before that my son die.
Jesus saith to him:
Go thy way, thy son liveth.
The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying: that his son lived. He asked, therefore, of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him:
Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
The father, therefore, knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him:
Thy son liveth:
And himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.
Haydock Commentary Isaias 65:17-21
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
- Ver. 17. New earth, in eternity, (Clarius) or here indeed, (2 Pet. iii. 3. &c. Houbigant) having purified the former by the general conflagration, which many assert will take place at the end of 6,000 years. S. Jer. S. Aug. &c. At the return of the captives, the country flourished again under the Machabees; (v. 18. Grot.) or rather the gospel changes the face of the earth. C. lxvi. 22. C. Forerius. — After the resurrection the qualities, and not the substance, of the world, will be changed. W.
- Ver. 20. Fill up. To die soon was deemed a misfortune. Ps. liv. 24. Ex. xx. 12. Virtue is the measure of the Christian’s life, and God will reward those who labour even late. Mat. xx. 13. — Accursed. This age will not be spared. Both just and wicked shall be immortal in eternity. Theod.
Haydock Commentary John 4:43-54
- Ver. 44. For Jesus himself gave testimony, &c. The connexion and reason given here by the word for, is obscure, when it is said, Jesus went into Galilee and gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. One would think this should not be a reason for his going into Galilee, but rather why he should not go thither. S. Cyril,[1] and also S. Chrys. distinguish different parts of Galilee; and say that when Jesus went into Galilee, the meaning is, that he would not at that time go to Nazareth, where he was bred, nor to Capharnaum, where he had lived for a time, but went to Cana, and those other parts of Galilee; and that the word for only gives the reason of this, that he would not go to Nazareth or Capharnaum, because no prophet is honoured in his own country. And for the same reason he again said to the ruler: (v. 48) Unless you see sign and wonders you believe not: whereas the Samaritans, from whom he was now coming readily believed without such miracles. Wi.
- Ver. 53. Thy son liveth; i.e. thy son is recovered, at this very moment. Wi.
