Daily Bible Readings Monday May 18 2009 Sixth Week of Easter

May 18 2009 Monday Sixth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – St. John I

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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The Acts of the Apostles 16:11-15
Haydock NT

So sailing from Troas, we came with a direct course to Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis: And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were in this city some days, conferring together. And upon the sabbath-day, we went forth without the gate by a river side, where it seemed that there was prayer: and sitting down, we spoke to the women that were assembled. And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things which were spoken by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying:

If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and remain.

And she constrained us.

Responsorial Psalm 149:1b-6a and 9b
DR Challoner Text Only

Praise the Lord in the church of the saints.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him:
and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.
Let them praise his name in choir:
let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.
For the Lord is well pleased with his people:
and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
The saints shall rejoice in glory:
they shall be joyful in their beds.
The high praises of God shall be in their mouth:
To execute upon them the judgment that is written:
this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

The Gospel According to Saint John 15:26—16:4a
Haydock NT

Jesus said:

But when the Paraclete is come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me: And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. THESE things have I spoke to you, that you may not be scandalized. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things I have told you: that when the hour of them shall come, you may remember that I told you.

Haydock Commentary Acts 16:11-15
Notes copied from Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 13. There was prayer.[1]  The Greek word signifies either prayer itself, or an oratory, or place to pray in.  Wi. — Not every prayer is here understood, but that which was joined in the celebration of the sacred mysteries.  Estius in diffic. loca.  See 1 Cor. vii. and Acts vi.

Haydock Commentary John 15:26-16:4

• Ver. 26. Whom I will send. The Holy Ghost is sent by the Son: therefore he proceedeth from him also, as from the Father; though the schismatical Greeks think differently; (B.) otherwise, as Dr. Challoner says, he could not be sent by the Son.
• Ver. 27. You shall give. He vouchsafes to join together the testimony of the Holy Ghost, and of the apostles; that we many see the testimony of truth, jointly to consist in the Holy Ghost, and in the prelates of the Catholic Church.  See Acts, xv. 28.
• Ver. 1. Which the persecutions you will have to suffer, on the part of man, may possible occasion, particularly with the weak.
• Ver. 4. That when the hour of them shall come[1], you may remember that I told you. This is both the sense and the construction, by the Greek text, which here determines the construction of the Latin.  Wi.