Daily Bible Readings Tuesday April 14 2009 Octave Of Easter

April 14 2009 Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
Saint of the Day – Blessed Peter Gonzalez

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Acts 2:36-41
Haydock New Testament

Therefore let all the house of Israel know most assuredly, that God hath made this Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they had heard these things they had compunction in their heart, and they said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles; What shall we do, men, brethren?

But Peter said to them;

Do penance, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you, and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

And with a great many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying; Save yourselves from this perverse generation. They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

Responsorial Psalm 32:4-5, 18-20 and 22 (Ps 33 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.
He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him:
and on them that hope in his mercy.
To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 20:11-18
Haydock New Testament

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping. Whilst she was then weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre: And she saw two Angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. They say to her;

Woman, why weepest thou?

She saith to them;

Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

When she had said this, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing: and she knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith to her;

Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?

She thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him;

Sir, if thou hast taken him away, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

Jesus saith to her;

Mary.

She turning, saith to him;

Rabboni, (that is to say, Master).

Jesus saith to her;

Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them; I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.

Mary Magdalene cometh, and telleth the disciples;

I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me.

Haydock Commentary Acts 2:36-41
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 37. They had compunction in their heart, with sorrow for their sins, especially against their Messias. Wi.
• Ver. 38. Be baptized: believing and making profession to believe, and hope for salvation, by the merits of Jesus Christ. Thus you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the grace of God, and perhaps those other gifts of speaking with tongues, working miracles, &c. Wi. — The gift of the Holy Ghost. That is, justifying grace, which is infused in our hearts by the laver of regeneration. The exterior gifts of the Holy Ghost, the gifts of tongues, of miracles, prophecy, &c. were, in the beginning of the Church, more regularly the consequence of confirmation or imposition of hands. Calmet.
• Ver. 39. The promise is to you. The good tidings of salvation were first announced to the Jew, then to the Gentile; first to the domestics, then to the strangers, who are far off. It is rather singular, that S. Peter, after here so clearly shewing that the Gentiles are called to the faith, should afterwards have made such objections to go to baptize Cornelius, because he was a Gentile. This can only be reconciled, by supposing, he did not know distinctly the time nor the manner of their vocation. Calmet.
• Ver. 40. And with a great many other words did he testify and exhort them. S. Luke only gives an abridgment of those exhortations, which S. Peter, and the apostles frequently gave to all the people. S. Peter, as S. Chrys. observes, and as we see in these Acts, was the mouth of all the rest. And on this first day of Pentecost, about three thousand were converted. Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 20:11-18

• Ver. 14. It may be asked, why Magdalene, after putting the question to the angels, turns around, without waiting for the answer. No doubt, as soon as she had spoken, the heavenly messengers perceived their Lord behind Mary, and by their looks and actions, gave her to understand that they beheld their Lord. This caused her immediately to look behind her. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxv. in Joan.
• Ver. 15. If thou hast taken him away. Thinking him, as the evangelist remarks, to be the gardener, how comes it, that without saying whom she sought, she asks if he had taken him away? Because such was the ardour of her love, that she could not imagine any one could think of any other but him, of whom her own mind was so full. S. Greg. hom. xxv. in Evan.
• Ver. 16. Jesus saith to her, Mary. Magdalene, now in grief and tears, knew not Jesus, till he called upon her by her name, and with his usual voice: then with joy, she cried out, Rabboni, Master. And Jesus saith to her, touch me not, &c. The meaning of which words seems to be: I am not yet leaving thee, nor ascending to the Father, so that thou mayest have time enough to embrace my feet afterwards; now go to my disciples, &c. Wi. — Magdalene, having inquired where he had placed him, appears to have turned towards the angels, to inquire the cause of the awe and reverence she had observed in them. Upon this, Jesus calls upon her by name, and she, turning again towards him, discovers him by his voice. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxv. in Joan.
• Ver. 17. I will not leave you again; be not in a hurry to touch me; you shall all have this pleasure. I will remain with you some time, before my ascension. Announce my resurrection to my apostles. You shall see me again. This is the interpretation most modern commentators put upon this place. Others suppose, that Magdalene imagined he was risen from the dead to live with men as before, like Lazarus. He addresses these words to her to disabuse her of this notion. Calmet.