Daily Bible Readings Wednesday May 6 2009 Fourth Week of Easter

May 6 2009 Wednesday Fourth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – Sts. Marian and James

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The Acts of the Apostles 12:24—13:5a
Haydock New Testament

But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled their ministry, taking with them John, who was surnamed Mark.

NOW there were in the church, which was at Antioch, prophets and teachers, among whom was Barnabas, and Simon, who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster-brother of Herod, the tetrarch, and Saul. And as they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them:

Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work to which I have taken them.

Then they fasting and praying, and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

So they being sent by the Holy Ghost, went to Seleucia: and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews.

Psalm 66 (67 Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

May God have mercy on us, and bless us:
may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us,
and may he have mercy on us.
That we may know thy way upon earth:
thy salvation in all nations.
Let people confess to thee, O God:
let all people give praise to thee.
Let the nations be glad and rejoice:
for thou judgest the people with justice,
and directest the nations upon earth.
Let the people, O God, confess to thee:
let all the people give praise to thee:
The earth hath yielded her fruit.
May God, our God bless us,
May God bless us:
and all the ends of the earth fear him.

The Gospel According to Saint John 12:44-50
Haydock NT

But Jesus cried out, and said;

He that believeth in me, doth not believe in me, but in him that sent me. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world; that whosoever believeth in me, may not remain in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and keep them not, I do not judge him: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that despiseth me, and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things, therefore, that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.

Haydock Commentary Acts 12:24—13:5a
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 25. Returned from Jerusalem, to Antioch, the capital of Syria.  Wi. — This John Mark, the companion of SS. Paul and Barnabas, was not the evangelist who bore that name; but a cousin of Barnabas, son of Mary, in whose house the apostles generally assembled at Jerusalem.  Calmet.
• Ver. 1. Manahen . . . foster-brother to Herod, or nursed with the same milk.  Wi. — It would appear from his having been  brought up with Herod, that he was of noble parentage.  He is likewise believed to have been one of the seventy-two disciples.  The Latins keep his feast on the 24th of May.  Calmet.
• Ver. 2. As they were ministering to the Lord.[1]  Mr. N. and some others translate, offering up sacrifice. There are indeed good grounds to take this to be the true sense, as the Rhemish translators observed, who notwithstanding only put ministering, lest, (said they) we should seem to turn it in favour of our own cause, since neither the Latin nor Greek word signifies of itself to sacrifice, but any public ministry in the service of God; so the S. Chrys. says, when they were preaching. Wi. — Separate me. Though Paul and Barnabas are here chosen by the Holy Ghost for the ministry, yet they were to be ordained, consecrated, and admitted by men; which loudly condemns all those modish and disordered spirits, that challenge and usurp the office of preaching, and other sacred and ecclesiastical functions, without any appointment from the Church.  B. — Consider, says S. Chrysostom, by whom they are ordained: by Lucius, of Cyrene, and Manahen, rather than by the Spirit.  The less honourable these persons are, the more signal is the grace of God.”
• Ver. 3. Fasting and prayer, imposing their hands upon them. By which is clearly expressed, the manner in which the ministers of God were, and are still ordained bishops, priests, deacons in the Church.  Wi. — Interpreters are much divided in opinion, whether this imposition of hands be a mere deputation to a certain employment, or the sacramental ceremony, by which orders are conferred.  SS. Chrysostom, Leo, &c. are of the latter opinion; nor does it any where appear that S. Paul was bishop before this.  Arator, sub-deacon of the Church of Rome, who dedicated in the year 544 his version of the Acts of the Apostles into heroic verse to Pope Virgilius, attributes this imposition of hands to S. Peter:
• ———-Quem mox sacravit euntem
• Imposita Petrus ille manu, cui sermo magistri
• Omnia posse dedit.———-
• — See his printed poems in 4to. Venice, an. 1502.  Arator was sent in quality of ambassador from Athalaric to the emperor Justinian. — Following the practice of the apostles, the Church of God ordains a solemn and general fast on the four public times for ordination, the ember days, as a necessary preparation for so great a work, and this S. Leo calls also an apostolical tradition.  See S. Leo, serm. ix. de jejun. and ep. lxxxi. c. 1. and serm. iii. and iv. de jejun. 7. mensis.— Nor was this fasting a fasting from sin, as some ridiculously affirm, for such fasting was a universal obligatin: nor was it left to each one’s discretion, as certain heretics maintained.  Vide S. Aug. hæres. iii.
• Ver. 5. In the synagogues of the Jews, preaching first the gospel ot them.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 12:44-50

• Ver. 45. He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. In what sense these words are true, see John xiv. v. 9. where they are repeated again, and with other expressions to the same sense.  Wi.
• Ver. 47. I do not judge him. To judge here, may signify to condemn.  S. Aug. expounds it in this manner: I do not judge him at this my first coming.  S. Chrys. says, it is not I only that judgeth him, but the works also that I do.