Daily Bible Readings Thursday May 7 2009 Fourth Week of Lent

May 7 2009 Thursday Fourth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – Blessed Rose Venerini

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The Acts of the Apostles 13:13-25
Haydock New Testament

And when Paul, and they who were with him, had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge, in Pamphylia. But John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. But they passing through Perge, came to Antioch, in Pisidia: and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying:

Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.

Then Paul rising up, and with his hand bespeaking silence, said:

Ye men of Israel, and you that fear God, give ear: The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people, when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with a mighty arm brought them out from thence, And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert. And destroying seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them, by lot, As it were, after four hundred and fifty years: and after these things he gave them judges, until Samuel, the prophet.

And afterwards they desired a king: and God gave them Saul, the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said:

I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my will.

Of this man’s seed God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus, John first preaching before his coming the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel. And when John was fulfilling his course, he said:

I am not he, whom you think me to be: but behold he cometh after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

Responsorial Psalm 88:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27 (Ps 89 Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever.
I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens:
thy truth shall be prepared in them.
I have found David my servant:
with my holy oil I have anointed him.
For my hand shall help him:
and my arm shall strengthen him.
And my truth and my mercy shall be with him:
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
He shall cry out to me:
Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

The Gospel According to Saint John 13:16-20
Haydock NT

Jesus washed the disciple’s feet and said:

Amen, amen, I say to you; The servant is not greater than his lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him. If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his heel against me. At present I tell you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe, that I am he. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

Haydock Commentary Acts 13:13-25
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 14. Antioch. Many cities in Asia Minor bore this name.  It is related that Seleucus Nicanor built many, and called them by this name, in honour of his father Antiochus. Tirinus. — Pamphylia and Pisidia were two provinces in Asia Minor. — The sabbath-day. Some not only understand, but even translate, the first day of the week: but here is rather meant the Jewish sabbath, as S. Paul went into their synagogues.  And in this his first sermon to them, which S. Luke has set down, he speaks nothing that could offend or exasperate the Jews, but honourably of them, to gain them to the Christian faith; he commends in particular David, whose Son they knew the Messias was to be: and of whom he tells them, that God had given them their Saviour, Jesus.  He mentions this high eulogium, which God gave of David, Ps. lxxxviii. 21. that he was a man according to God’s heart, who in all things should fulfil his will, that is, as to the true worship of God; though he fell into some sins, of which he repented, and did penance.  Wi.
• Ver. 19. These seven nations are the Chanaanites, the Hethites, the Hevites, the Pherezites, the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorrhites.  Jos. iii. 10. and alibi.
• Ver. 20. Chronology only gives about 350 years from the entrance into the land of promise to the end of Samuel’s judicial government, who was the last of the judges.  V.
• Ver. 24, &c. He then brings the testimony, which John the Baptist gave of Jesus, as it is likely many of them had heard of John, and of the great esteem that all the people had of his virtue and sanctity.  He tells them that salvation was offered and sent them by Jesus, against whom the chief of the Jews at Jerusalem obtained of Pilate a sentence, that he should be crucified; but that God raised him up from the dead the third day.  And we, says he, publish to you this promise, the Messias,  promised to our forefathers.

Haydock Commentary John 13:16-20

• Ver. 18. Shall lift up his heel against me. It is the sense of those words, (Psal. xl. 10.) hath supplanted me; and they were spoken of Judas’s sin in betraying Christ.  Wi. — Jesus Christ applies in this place to the perfidy of Judas, that which David appears to have said on occasion of the perfidy of Achitophel, who was thus a figure of the perfidious Judas.  V.