Daily Bible Readings Saturday May 23 2009 Sixth Week of Easter

May 23 2009 Saturday Sixth Week of Easter
Saint of the Day – St. Felix of Cantalice

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Acts 18:23-28
Haydock New Testament

And after he had spent some time there, he departed, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, confirming all the disciples. Now, a certain Jew, named Apollo, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the Scriptures. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit, spoke, and taught diligently the things that are of Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John. This man, therefore, began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom when Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them, and expounded more perfectly to him the way of the Lord. And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren exhorting, wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come, helped them much, who had believed. For he with might convinced the Jews in public, shewing, by the Scriptures, Jesus to be the Christ.

Responsorial Psalm 46:2-3, 8-10 (Ps 47 NAB)
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.
For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.
God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.
The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham:
for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 16:23b-28
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

Amen, amen, I say to you: If you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father. In that day you shall ask in my name, and I say not to you, that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and I go to the Father.

Haydock Commentary Acts 18:23-28
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 24. Apollo . . . one mighty in the Scripture. Lit. powerful in the Scripture, yet knew no baptism, but that of John.  Wi. — When we consider the great harvest, and few labourers, and the small time that the apostles could give to any one place for instructions, we shall not be so much surprised, that this zealous convert should not yet be perfectly instructed in every doctrine of Christianity.  This happened about twenty years after our Lord’s ascension.   He is the same person as is mentioned 1 Cor. iii. 7.  A.

Haydock Commentary John 16:23b-28

• 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.
• Ver. 24. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name: by the merits of me, your Mediator and Redeemer.  They were  not yet acquainted, says S. Cyril, with this manner of praying and petitioning, as they were afterwards.  Wi.
• Ver. 26-27. In that day . . . I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you, or shall need to ask the Father for you, though I am your Redeemer, you chief Advocate and Mediator, by dying for all the world. — For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God, sent to be your Redeemer. — I came forth from the Father, both as begotten of him from all eternity; and I also came into the world, as sent from him to become man, to become the Redeemer of the world, both as God and man.  Now I am going, as man, to leave the world, and go to the Father, with whom I am, and  have always been, as God.  Wi.