Daily Bible Readings Tuesday May 26 2009 Memorial of St Philip Neri priest

May 26 2009 Tuesday Memorial of Saint Philiph Neri, priest
Saint of the Day – St. Philip Neri

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The Acts of the Apostles 20:17-27
Haydock New Testament

And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of the church. And when they were come to him, and were together, he said to them:

You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner I have been with you all the time, Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and temptations, which befell me from the snares of the Jews: How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house. Testifying both to Jews and Gentile penance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now behold bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Only that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That chains and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. But I fear none of these things: neither do I count my life more precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course, and the ministry of the word, which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

And now behold I know that all you, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all. For I have not spared to declare to you all the counsel of God.

Responsorial Psalm 67:10-11, 20-21 (Ps 68 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance
a free rain, O God:
and it was weakened,
but thou hast made it perfect.
In it shall thy animals dwell;
in thy sweetness, O God,
thou hast provided for the poor.
Blessed be the Lord day by day:
the God of our salvation
will make our journey prosperous to us.
Our God is the God of salvation:
and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

The Gospel According to Saint John 17:1-11a
Haydock NT

THESE things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said;

Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give life everlasting to all whom thou hast given him. Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

I have glorified thee upon the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do: And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I have with thee before the world was.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them: and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are from thee. Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them: and they have received them, and have known for certain that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine: And all mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee.

Haydock Commentary Acts 20:17-27
Notes copied from Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 17. He called the ancients of the Church. We might translate the bishops, as the very same persons in the 28th verse are called bishops. Wi.
• Ver. 19. With all humility; that is, of heart, or mind, as the Greek word signifies.  He knew, says S. Chrysostom, how necessary this virtue of humility was for the ministers of the gospel. — With tears of charity and compassion, under temptations, trials, and persecutions.  Wi.
• Ver. 20. I have kept back, &c.  I have discovered to you every thing which can be useful to your salvation.  Neither fear, nor any human considerations, have prevailed over me to disguise or suppress the truths, which might be serviceable to you.  This is the model of a good pastor.  Full of doctrine, and of zeal, he communicates what God puts into his heart, and charity inspires him to speak, with abundance, with discretion, and without jealousy, without fear.  A good shepherd, S. Bernard used to say, has always bread in his scrip, and his dog in his keeping.  The dog is his zeal, which must be chained, governed and moderated.  His scrip, full of bread, is his mind, filled with all knowledge, which he is always in the state of dispensing as food to his flock.
• Ver. 22. Bound in the spirit, lead by inspiration of the Holy Ghost.  Wi. — Chained, and forced, as it were, by the Holy Spirit, who offers me a sweet violence; or I am so strongly persuaded of the chains, which await me at Jerusalem, that I already feel myself bound in idea.  Calmet. — I no go to Jerusalem for the fourth time, attracted by the Holy Ghost, who is the author and governor of all my actions, that where I have shown myself the greatest enemy of the Church, there I may suffer tribulations in defence of the same Church, and for Christ, her divine spouse.  Tirinus.
• Ver. 23. In every city. There were in every city Christian prophets, who foretold to Paul the tribulations which awaited him.  It appears, then, that the apostle did not know these things by immediate revelation made to himself, but by that made to the prophets.  Of this we have a proof in the next chapter.
• Ver. 24. Neither do I count my life (lit. my soul ) more precious than myself, having consecrated all my endeavours, my thoughts, my life, my whole self, body and soul, to God’s service.  Wi.
• Ver. 25. I know, &c. It appears sufficiently evident, from many parts of S. Paul’s epistles, that he not only designed, but likewise, according to the opinion of most able critics, actually did revisit the churches of Asia.  Of this occasion, then, he only expresses his belief, his conviction, that he should see them no more, judging it impossible for him to escape the dangers that were prepared for him.  Calmet. — All you. Although S. Paul might return again to the same place, he might truly say of so great an assembly, that all of them should not see him again.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 17:1-11a

• Ver. 1. Glorify thy Son, by signs and miracles, lest dying so disgraceful a death, I seem to be no more than another man: that thy Son may glorify thee, that my death may make thee praised and glorified.  Wi.
• Ver. 2. Power over all flesh, that he may give life everlasting to all[1] whom thou hast given him. He speaks of himself, as made man, and the Redeemer of mankind.  If we ask, who are they, who in this sense are said to be given to Christ: it is true, only the elect, or predestined, are given by a special and uncommon mercy.  In this sense S. Aug. says, (tract. 111. p. 779.) They are not said to be given, to whom he shall not give life everlasting. Yet not only the elect, but all believers, nay, all men whatsoever, may be said to be given to him, inasmuch as by his coming to redeem all, sufficient help and means are offered to all men, whereby they may be saved: and inasmuch as Christ came, suffered, died, and offered up his death for all men.  See 2 Cor. v. 15.  Wi. — Thou hast given him power over all flesh: by this our Saviour shewed, that his preaching was directed, not to the Jews  only, but to every nation of the earth.  Are then all saved?  Christ has done sufficient for the salvation of all, and if they are not saved, it is the fault, not of him that speaketh, but of those that receive not his word.  S. Chrys. hom. lxxix. in Joan.
• Ver. 3. This is life everlasting; that is, the way to life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent[2].  The Arians, from these words, pretended that the Father only is the true God.  S. Aug. and divers others answer, that the sense and construction is, that they may know thee, and also Jesus Christ thy Son, whom thou hast sent to be the only true God. We may also expound them with S. Chrys. and others, so that the Father is here called the only true God, not to exclude the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who are the same one true God with the Father; but only to exclude the false gods of the Gentiles.  Let the Socinians take notice, that (1 Jo. v. 20.) the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is expressly called the true God, even with the Greek article, upon which they commonly lay so much stress.  Wi. — Life everlasting. Both the life of glory in heaven, and of grace here, consisteth in the knowledge of God; the former in perfect vision, the latter in faith working by charity.  For knowledge of God, without keeping his commandments, is not true knowledge, but unprofitable knowledge.  1 Jo. xi.
• Ver. 5. And now, glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee, before the world was.  Glorify me, is the same as make me known to men; so that the sense may be, make men know, that I had the same glory with thee, before the world was created, and from all eternity.  Others understand, that Christ as man, here prays that his eternal Father would make known to men, that glory, which it was decreed from eternity should be given him: that is, that all creatures should be made subject to him, even as he was man, and appointed to be judge of the living and the dead.  See 1 Cor. xv. 26.  Ephes. i. 22.  Wi.
• Ver. 6. To the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. By whom we may understand his apostles and disciples.  They were thine, and also mine, as I am God.  See v. 10. — and to me thou gavest them, inasmuch as I am become man, their Saviour, their Redeemer, &c.  Wi. — Had then the Father any thing which the Son had not?  By no means.  But Christ, as Son of God, had from eternity what he had not as Son of man; because he had not yet taken flesh of his virgin mother.  All that he had as God, he attributes to his Father.  S. Aug. tract. 106. in Joan.
• Ver. 7-8. Now they have known that all things which thou gavest  men, are from thee. That is, says S. Aug.[3] they now know, and will know more perfectly hereafter, that I myself am from thee, or proceed from thee, and am sent by thee to redeem the world.  Wi.
• Ver. 9. I pray for them, I pray not for the world. That is, now in this prayer, when I desire special graces and assistances for them, to discharge their duty, as my apostles; yet we must take notice, that (v. 20.) Christ prays for all those, who should believe in him. He also prayed (Luke xxiii. 34.) for all, even for those that crucified him, Father, forgive the, for they know not what they do. Wi. — The prayer I now offer up to thee, O my Father, is all in behalf of my disciples, it is not for the world.  I pray not now for the incredulous Jews, nor for such of the Gentiles as shall afterwards believe in me; for them I will pray at another time.  At present I speak to thee for my apostles only: they call for my first care, because they are thine, and thou has given them to me.—Calmet. — Jesus Christ prayed with an absolute and an efficacious prayer, for all those, for whom his prayer was to be heard: he begged for them, whatever his Father had predestined to give them; but he asked for nothing, that his Father had predestined not to give them.
• Ver. 10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine. They must needs be equal, says S. Aug. to whom equally belong all things, and all persons; on which words S. Chrys. also says, (hom. lxxxi.) Do you see the equality? Wi. — And all mine are thine, and thine are mine: as if he said: whatever thou hast given to me remains still thine, for mine are thine; and whatever is thine, is likewise mine, for thine are all mine.  S. Chrys. hom. lxxx. in Joan.
• Ver. 11. And now I am no more in the world: that is, I am now leaving the world, as to a corporeal and visible presence: yet S. Aug. takes notice, that Christ saith afterwards, (v. 13.) these things I speak in the world: therefore he was still for some short time in the world.  And as to his true invisible presence with his Church, he gave us this promise, (Matt. xxviii. 20.) Behold I am with you all days, even to the end of the world.