Daily Bible Readings Monday May 4 2009 Fourth Week of Easter

May 4 2009 Monday Fourth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – Blessed Michael Giedroyc

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 11:1-18
Haydock New Testament

AND the apostles and brethren who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they who were of the circumcision, disputed against him, Saying:

Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them?

But Peter began and declared to them the matter in order, saying:

I was in the city of Joppe, praying, and I saw an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even to me. Into which looking I considered, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, and beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air:

And I heard also a voice, saying to me:

Arise, Peter, kill and eat.

And I said:

Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth.

And the voice answered the second time from heaven:

What God hath made clean, call not thou common.

And this was done three times: and all were taken up again into heaven. And behold immediately there were three men come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Cæsarea. And the spirit said to me, that I should go with them, nothing doubting. And these six brethren went with me also, and we entered into the man’s house. And he told us, how he had seen an Angel in his house, standing and saying to him:

Send to Joppe, and call hither Simon, who is surnamed Peter, Who shall speak to thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.

And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. If then God gave to them the same grace, as to us also who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?

When they had heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying:

God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance unto life.

Responsorial Psalm 41:2-3; 43:3, 4 (Ps 42 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

As the hart panteth after the fountains of water;
so my soul panteth after thee, O God.
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God;
when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
Sent forth thy light and thy truth:
they have conducted me,
and brought me unto thy holy hill,
and into thy tabernacles.
And I will go in to the altar of God:
to God who giveth joy to my youth.
To thee, O God my God,
I will give praise upon the harp

The Gospel According to Saint John 10:1-10
Haydock NT

Jesus said:

AMEN, amen, I say to you; he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep; To whom the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

This parable Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he was speaking to them. Jesus, therefore, said to them again;

Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All they who came, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep heard them not. I am the door. If any one enter by me, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures. The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.

Haydock Commentary Acts 11:1-18
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 2. Disputed against him. S. Epiphanius makes Cerintbus, who was the next heresiarch to Simon Magus, the author of this dispute. He likewise says it was he, who excited the Jews against S. Paul, (Acts xxi.) and that the first Council of Jerusalem was convened to condemn him. S. Epiph. hæres. 28. c. ii.
• Ver. 3. And didst eat with them. The Jews looked upon it as a thing altogether abominable, for them to eat with uncircumcised Gentiles; but S. Peter satisfied them, or silenced them by a plain and sincere recital of his vision, and of what happened at the house of Cornelius. Wi.
• Ver. 18. They held their peace, and glorified God, that the gate of salvation was also opened to the Gentiles. Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 10:11-18

• Ver. 1, &c. In this parable the fold is the Church: the good shepherd, and also the door is Christ: the thieves and robbers are false guides; the hirelings, such ministers as seek their own profit and gain, and a good living, as they call it; the wolves, heretics; the sheep not yet brought into the fold, the Gentiles not then converted. Wi.
• Ver. 3. His own sheep by name. By this is signified the particular care. Wi.
• Ver. 4. He goeth before them, leads them by his instructions and example. Wi.
• Ver. 8. All they who come are thieves, meaning those who came of their own accord, without being sent: not so the prophets, who had their mission from God. Wi.