Daily Bible Readings Wednesday April 22 2009 Second Week of Easter

April 22 2009 Wednesday Second Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – St. Adalbert of Prague

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

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Acts 5:17-26
Haydock New Testament

Then the high priest, rising up, and all that were with him, (which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with indignation. And they laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. But an Angel of the Lord, by night opening the doors of the prison, and leading them out, said:

Go, and, standing, speak in the temple, to the people, all the words of this life.

They having heard this, entered early in the morning into the temple, and taught. Now the high priest coming, and they that were with him, called together the council, and all the ancients of the children of Israel; and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the officers came, and having opened the prison, found them not, returning back, they told, Saying;

The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and the keepers standing before the doors: but opening it, we found no man within.

Now, when the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them what this would come to. But a man coming, told them:

Behold, the men whom you put in prison, are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

Then went the magistrate with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Responsorial Psalm 33:2-9 (Ps 34 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.
In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 3:16-21
Haydock New Testament

For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. He that believeth in him is not judged: but he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God.

Haydock Commentary Acts 5:17-26
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 26. Then went the magistrate;[4] which by the Greek was a military officer. But he did not bind them like prisoners, for fear of a tumult, but desired them to go along with them to the sanhedrim. Wi. — Without violence. They persuaded them to appear willingly before the sanhedrim, thinking, perhaps moreover, that they could not bind them, whom the walls of the prison could not confine. The apostles here, and on all other occasions, shew the most astonishing examples of patience, constancy, and obedience to the laws of the country. Menochius. — O Jews! who do you shut your eyes against the light? why so blindly mad? You say the apostles took Christ from the tomb. Tell me, then, who stole the apostles from under your locks and bolts? Who conveyed them from your prison through the midst of your guards, without alarming them? Shall the evidence of the miracle serve only to make you the less open to conviction? Ven. Bede. D. Carthus.

Haydock Commentary John 3:16-21

• Ver. 16-17. Give his only begotten Son — God sent not his Son into the world. He was then his Son, his only begotten Son, before he sent him into the world. He was not, therefore, his Son, only by the incarnation, but was his Son from the beginning, as he was also his word from all eternity. This was the constant doctrine of the Church, and of the Fathers, against the heresy of the Arians, that God was always Father,[1] and the Son always the eternal Son of the eternal Father. See note on chap. i. v. 14. Wi. — The world may be saved. Why, says S. Austin, is Christ called the Saviour of the world, unless from the obligation he took upon himself at his birth? He has come like a good physician, effectually to save mankind. The man, therefore, destroys himself, who refuses to follow the prescriptions of his physician. S. Aust.
• Ver. 18. Is not judged. He that believeth, viz. by a faith working through charity, is not judged; that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate unbeliever is judged; that is, condemned already, by retrenching himself from the society of Christ and his Church. Ch.
• Ver. 19. The judgment. That is, the cause of his condemnation. Ch.