Daily Bible Readings Friday April 3 2009 Fifth Week of Lent

April 3 2009 Friday Fifth Week of Lent
Saint of the Day – St. Benedict the African

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Jeremiah 20:10-13
Douay-Rheims Challoner

For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced. And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for to thee I have laid open my cause. Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered the soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.

Responsorial Psalm 17:2-7 (Ps 18 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer.
My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust.
My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God:
And he heard my voice from his holy temple:
and my cry before him came into his ears.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint 10:31-42
Haydock New Testament

The Jews then took up stones, to stone him. Jesus answered them;

Many good works I have shewn to you from my Father: for which of those works do you stone me?

The Jews answered him;

For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Jesus answered them;

Is it not written in your law: I have said, you are gods? If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken, and the Scripture cannot be broken; Do you say of him, whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do: though you will not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

They sought, therefore, to take him: and he escaped out of their hands. And he went away again beyond the Jordan into that place where John was baptizing first, and there he abode: And many resorted to him, and they said:

John indeed did no sign. But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true.

And many believed in him.

Haydock Commentary Jeremias 20:10-13
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 10. Side, seeking an opportunity to ruin me, as the Pharisees did our Saviour. Ps. xl. 10. C. — Prot. “familiars watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he,” &c. H.
• Ver. 12. Let me see, &c. This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill-will, but zeal of justice. Ch. — He expresses in a human manner a future punishment.
• Ver. 13. Sing. God having shewn that his prayer should be heard, he gives thanks, (C.) and thus shews that what he is going to say proceeds not from impatience. Theod.

Haydock Commentary John 10:31-42

• Ver. 31. Then took up stones, &c. because, they said, being a man, thou makest thyself God. The Jews, says S. Aug. understood well enough what the Arians will not understand, that from Christ’s words it follows that he was one and the same God with the eternal Father. Wi. — The Jews, in opposition to our Saviour’s doctrine, took up stones to destroy him, in order that he might preach no more to them. So heretics at the present time exercise the odium of their impiety against the same Lord, by perverting his holy doctrines, and, as much as in them lies, pulling him and his servants down from the glorious seats of heavenly bliss. S. Aug.
• Ver. 34. This is addressed to princes established to govern the people of God. They are the image of God on earth by the authority they exercise, and which they have received from Him. — Is it not written in you law, (under which were also comprehended the Psalms) I have said: you are Gods? &c. Christ here stops the mouths of the Jews, by an argument which they could not answer, that sometimes they were called Gods, who acted by God’s authority. I have said: you are Gods. Psal. lxxxi. 6. But then he immediately declares, that it is not in this sense only that he is God. 1st, Because he has been sanctified by the Father, which S. Aug. and others understand of that infinite sanctification, which he has necessarily by always proceeding from the Father. Others expound it of a greater sanctity and fulness of grace above all other saints, given to him, even as he was man. But 2dly, he adds at the same time, and confirms what he had often told them, that he was the Son of God, sent into the world: that his works shew that he was in the Father, and the Father in him. by this they saw that he was far from recalling or contradicting what he had said before. And therefore (v. 30.) they sought to apprehend him, and put him to death for blasphemy. Wi. — Eloim, which name of God was so called from judging, and may be interpreted judges. M.
• Ver. 39. And he escaped out of their hands; perhaps making himself invisible, or hindering them by his divine power. Wi.