Daily Bible Readings Friday March 27 2009 Fourth Week of Lent

March 27 2009 Friday Fourth Week of Lent
Saint of the Day – Blessed Francis Faà di Bruno

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Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Douay-Rheims Challoner

For they (the wicked with works and words) have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right:

Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life. He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God. He is become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, and his ways are very different. We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.

Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.

These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them. And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.

Responsorial Psalm 33:17-21 and 23 (Ps 34 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things:
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The just cried, and the Lord heard them:
and delivered them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart:
and he will save the humble of spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the just;
but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.
The Lord keepeth all their bones,
not one of them shall be broken.
The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants:
and none of them that trust in him shall offend.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Haydock New Testament

AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea: because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jewish feast of tabernacles was at hand. But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. Some therefore of Jerusalem said:

Is not this he whom they seek to kill? And behold he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known of a truth that this is the Christ? But we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

Jesus, therefore, cried out in the temple, teaching and saying:

You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself: but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not. I know him: because I am from him, and he hath sent me.

They sought, therefore, to apprehend him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Haydock Commentary Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Right. He shews how the wicked brought death into the world, and expresses the sentiments of the epicureans, as in Ecclesiastes. The six first chapters are a sort of paraphrase of the nine first of Proverbs, in which the attractions of virtue and of pleasure are contrasted, &c. C.
• Ver. 12. Just. Infidels are not content to live in riot: they also persecute the just. W. — This passage points out the conduct of the Jews towards our Saviour, in so striking a manner, that Grotius would assert it has been altered by some Christian. But the Fathers adduce it as a clear prediction (C.) of the Jewish malice. Matt. xxvii. 41. Mar. xiv. 53. W.
• Ver. 13. Knowledge. The prophets spoke to sinners in the name of God, and many of them lost their lives in the cause. Christ appeared as a new star, to promote their welfare; yet this only serves to irritate them. C. Jo. viii. 16.
• Ver. 20. Words. Or he shall be punished for what he has said. Syr. Vat. &c. Matt. xxvi. 61. C. — We shall hence form a judgment of his real merits, (M.) unless this be spoken ironically; as if the just had foolishly flattered himself with the divine protection. Matt. xxvii. 43. H.
• Ver. 22. Secrets. The disbelief of mysteries leads to a dissolute life, and to the persecution of the just. W. — The pagans knew not the advantages of suffering, and even the apostles were ignorant of the mystery of the cross, till after the resurrection. C.

Haydock Commentary John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

• Ver. 2. This was the festival of Tabernacles, on which the Jews made tents, in imitation of those which were their habitations during their sojournment in the wilderness, for forty years. See Lev. xxiii. 34. The Jews called it a festival day; though it consisted not of one, but of many days successively. S. Austin, tract. 28. in Joan.
• Ver. 10. But why does he ascend to the festival day, when he said he would not? He did not say, I will not ascend, but only, I do not ascend; that is, in your company. S. Chrys. hom. xlvii. in Joan. — Or, I do not go up to this festival, viz. the first or second day of the feast, which lasted eight days, and to which you wish me to ascend: but he went afterwards, when the first part of the festival was over. S. Austin, tract. 28. in Joan.
• Ver. 26. Have the rulers, &c. the chief priests, elders, and all the members of the great sanhedrim. Wi.
• Ver. 27. We know this man whence he is. They looked upon him as no more than a man, and they thought they knew his father to be S. Joseph; they knew his Mother and kindred. — But when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. Thus said some of the people; but, doubtless, the more learned knew Christ was to be born at Bethlehem. Wi. — The Jews had imbibed this opinion of the secrecy of the origin of Christ from the prophet Isaias, C. liii. Who shall relate his generation? But they likewise were acquainted with many other texts of Scripture relative to the Messias, which plainly point out the place of his birth, viz. Bethlehem, and also the place of his residence, when it is said, He shall be called a Nazarite. His generation is indeed unknown with regard to his divinity, as Christ himself told the Jews in his answer: He is true that sent me, but you know him not. But as to his humanity, his origin is well known: You know me, and whence I am you know. S. Aust. tract. 31. in Joan.
• Ver. 28. You both know me; i.e. you know me as man, and where I have been educated. — But him that sent me, from whom I proceeded, and who sent me into this world to be its Redeemer, you know not; because you know not, that he was always, and from all eternity, my eternal Father, and I his eternal Son. Wi.