Daily Bible Readings Friday May 22 2009 Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

May 22 2009 Friday Sixth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – St. Rita of Cascia

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 18:9-18
Haydock New Testament

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision;

Fear not, but speak, and hold not thy peace: Because I am with thee: and no man shall set upon thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul, and brought him to the judgment-seat, Saying:

That this man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews:

If it were some matter of injustice, or a heinous deed, ye Jews, I should with reason bear with you. But if they be questions of a word, and of names, and of your law, look you to it: I will not be judge of such matters.

And he drove them from the judgment-seat. And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, beat him before the judgment-seat: and Gallio cared for none of those things. But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking leave of the brethren, he sailed from thence into Syria, (and with him Priscilla and Aquila,) having shorn his head in Cenchra: for he had a vow.

Responsorial Psalm 46:2-7
DR Challoner Text Only

O clap your hands, all ye nations:
shout unto God with the voice of joy,
For the Lord is high, terrible:
a great king over all the earth.
He hath subdued the people under us;
and the nations under our feet.
He hath chosen for us his inheritance,
the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.
God is ascended with jubilee,
and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.
Sing praises to our God, sing ye:
sing praises to our king, sing ye.

The Gospel According to Saint John 16:20-23
Haydock NT

Jesus said:

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. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy no man shall take from you. So also you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice: and your joy no man shall take from you. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: If you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it to you.

Haydock Commentary Acts 18:9-18
Notes copied from Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 12. This Gallio was brother to the great Seneca, Nero’s preceptor, as that author himself assures us.  Præf. lib. v. Quæs. Natur.  He was called Annæus Novatus, but took the name of Gallio by adoption, and was made proconsul by his brother’s interest, whose honours and disgraces he equally participated.  Being condemned to death by Nero, he laid violent hands upon himself.  It is probable S. Paul became acquainted with Seneca.  S. Jerom and S. Augustin say, many letters passed between them, which are not now extant.  Tirinus.  See also Eusebius.  An. Christi 66.
• Ver 17. Beat him. It is uncertain whether the Jews themselves beat Sosthenes, being vexed at him, for not managing well the cause; or whether he was struck by the attendants of the proconsul, to force him away, when he would not desist, nor retire.  See the Analysis, dissert. xxxv.  Wi.
• Ver. 18. Shorn, &c.  It was customary among the Jews to make vows of abstaining from all inebriating liquor, not to cut their hair for a limited time, &c.  This was the vow of the Nazarites, mentioned in Num. vi. 18.  Acts xxii. 24.  S. Paul had probably taken upon himself some obligation of this kind; perhaps in condescension to the Jews, who were yet weak in faith.  The time being now expired, he cut his hair as before.  It was lawful for converts to observe these legal ceremonies, till the gospel was perfectly established, provided they did not place their hopes of salvation in them, or believe that the faith and grace of Christ were ineffectual without them.  D. Carthus. — For he had a vow, that is, Paul, not Aquila.  This seems to have been such a vow, as those called Nazarenes, used to make, of abstaining from wine for a time, of not cutting their hair, and of making some offerings in the temple at Jerusalem.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 16:20-23

• 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.
• Ver. 22. The joy you will feel at my resurrection, shall ever be unalterable, and unremitting, because there I shall give you assurances and proofs of you future resurrection, and  immortality.  As you have been partakers in my labours, in my ignominies, and in my sorrows, so also shall you have a share in my glory, in my resurrection, and immortal bliss.  Behold, these will rise to your ever unalterable and permanent joy.  This is the opinion of S. Chrys. S. Cyril, Theophyl. and others.
• Ver. 23. In the day[4], or at that time, in that happy state, you shall not ask, you shall not need to ask me any questions: nor even desire to have any happiness, but what you will enjoy.  But now if you ask, that is, petition for any thing of the Father in my name, he will give it you, whatever graces or assistances you stand in need of: ask them in my name, as I am your chief Mediator, through whose merits all shall be granted you.  This is the constant practice of the Church, to ask for all graces through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Wi. — In my name. In consequence of this promise, the Church concludeth all her prayers, even those that are addressed to the saints, Per Christum Dominum nostrum, through Christ our Lord.