Daily Bible Readings Thursday May 21 2009 Sixth Week of Easter

May 21 2009 Thursday Sixth Week of Easter
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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 18:1-8
Haydock New Testament

AFTER these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. And finding a certain Jew, name Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had lately come from Italy, with Priscilla, his wife, (because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) he came to them. And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought: (now they were tentmakers by trade.) And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, introducing the name of the Lord Jesus, and he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. But they contradicting and blaspheming, shaking his garments, he said to them:

Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

And departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man, named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined to the synagogue. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house: and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized.

Responsorial Psalm 97:1-4 (Ps 98 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only (I made a couple small changes to make sense of the text)

Sing ye to the Lord a new song:
because he hath done wonderful things.
His right hand and his holy arm
hath wrought for him salvation.
The Lord hath made known his salvation:
he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles.
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth
toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth
have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth;
make melody, rejoice and sing.

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

Jesus said:

A little while, and now you shall not see me, and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.

Then some of his disciples said one to another,

What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me, and again a little while, and you shall see me: and because I go to the Father?

They said, therefore,

What is this that he saith, A little while? we know not what he speaketh.

And Jesus knew that they wished to ask him: and he said to them:

Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said, A little while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Haydock Commentary Acts 18:1-8
Notes copied from Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 3. Critics are divided in their opinion about the nature of S. Paul’s employment: but it is generally supposed to be making tents of skins, such as were formerly used by travellers and soldiers.  Tirinus. — Hence the expression, esse sub pellibus.  The apostle submitted to this labour, that he might be no burden to those whom he preached the gospel.  S. Aug. tract. in Joan. — The Jews, with their characteristic good sense, in matters of this kind, made it the first duty of parents, to teach their children some trade, by which they might gain their livelihood.  To neglect this was supposed to be equivalent to teaching them to steal.  Hence their learned men were likewise practitioners in some laborious trade.  They were ignorant of the distinction between low, and honourable professions, which refinement and vanity have introduced among us.  Every employment was honourable, which was conducive to the good of their neighbour, and compatible with virtue and modesty; and the more so, in proportion as the wants of mankind made it more necessary.  See Fleury’s Manners of the Israelites.  Passim.
• Ver. 4. Introducing the name of the Lord Jesus. These words are found in few Greek copies, and so are omitted in the Protestant translation.  Wi.
• Ver. 5. No further mention is made of Silas in these Acts.  Some martyrologists think he died in Macedonia by martyrdom.  He is honoured in the Church as a saint, and sometimes, as well as S. Barnabas, obtains the title of apostle.  Calmet.  See annotation, c. xvi. v. 37.
• Ver. 6. Shaking his garments. See Matt. x. 14.  Your blood be upon your own heads: that is, you are guilty of your own perdition: we have discharged our duty by preaching to you.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 16:16-20

• Ver. 16. a little while, and now you shall not see me, &c.  Many expound these words in this manner: that after a little while, you shall not see me, because even to-morrow, I shall be taken from you by death: and again, after a little while, you shall see me, because the third day I shall rise again, and converse with you, till my ascension.  S. Aug. gives another interpretation, (tract. 101.) that by the first little while, may be understood, the short time till Christ’s ascension, and by the latter little while, the short time that the apostles were to live in this world; after which they should see, and enjoy Christ for ever in the kingdom of heaven.  And this exposition seems to agree better with the following promise.  Wi. — In a few hours, I shall be separated from you, to be delivered up to may enemies, and put to the cruel death of the cross; and after a short time, I shall rise again; then you shall see me in my new state of glory.  S. Chrys. both SS. Cyrils, Theophyl. Euthym. S. Aug. and others, interpret this verse differently; thus: Not long hence, I shall be entirely separated from you; you shall not see me, because I shall go to the Father, by my ascension; but you shall see me again, after a short time, at my second coming, to judge the living and the dead.  All the time, that shall pass between my ascension, and my second coming, is in the eyes of God only as a moment.  For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, which is past and gone.  Psal. lxxxix. v. 4.  And the apostle calls all time a moment, a time that soon passes.  1 Cor. vii. and 2 Cor. iv.
• Ver. 20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy, chiefly at the end of your mortal life; then you shall have a joy, never to be taken from you. Wi.