Daily Bible Readings Monday June 1 2009 Ninth Week of Ordinary Time Memorial of St Justin Martyr

June 1 2009 Monday Memorial of Saint Justin, martyr, and Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Justin

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Tobit (Tobias) 1:3; 2:1a-8
DR Challoner

But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias’s house, He said to his son:

Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body. And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear, Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

So when the sun was down, he went and buried him. Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying:

Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?

Responsorial Psalm 111:1b-2, 3b-4, 5-6
DR Challoner Text Only

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord:
he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth:
the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.
His justice remaineth for ever and ever.
To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness:
he is merciful, and compassionate and just.
Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth:
he shall order his words with judgment:
Because he shall not be moved for ever.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 12:1-12
Haydock New Testament

AND he began to speak to them in parables:

A man planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round it, and dug a place for the wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, to receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. But they having laid hands on him, beat him: and sent him away empty.

And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head, and used him reproachfully. And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed. Having therefore yet one most dearly beloved son: he sent him also to them last of all, saying:

They will reverence my son.

But the husbandmen said one to another:

This is the heir: come, let us kill him; and the inheritance shall be ours.

And laying hold on him, they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. What, therefore, will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And have you not read this Scripture:

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner:

By the Lord hath this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes? And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable against them. And leaving him, they went their way.

Haydock Commentary Tobit 2:1-8
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. House. The law authorized such feasts.  Deut. xii. 12. and xiv. 28.  Tobias complied with it, by inviting also the poor servants of God.  Gr. “I lay down to eat.”  This custom prevailed in the East.  C.
• Ver. 2. Tribe. Gr. “brethren indigent, and who remembers God.”  H. — All had not given way to idolatry.  W.
• Ver. 3. Street. Asarhaddon did not protect the Israelites, which renders the elevation of Akikar to the highest dignities suspicious. C. — But the king and his minister might not be able to prevent all murders.  H. — Fasting. The ancients seldom eat anything before noon.  Gr. “Before I had tasted, I leaped up and took him to a house, till the sun should be set,” (H.) to prevent any danger from the Assyrians.  M. — lf he did not employ another, he must have eaten alone, being rendered unclean.  This seems to have been the case; and hence he did not enter his own house, but lay down by the wall.  C. — Gr. and Heb. mention, that he washed himself before he eat.  H.

Haydock Commentary Mark 12:1-12

• Ver. 1. Under these figurative modes of speech, or parables, Jesus Christ began to trace out for their reflection a true portraiture of their ingratitude, and of the divine vengeance.  By this man we are to understand God the Father, whose vineyard was the house of Israel, which  he guarded by angels; the place dug for the wine-vat is the law; the tower, the temple; and Moses, the prophets and the priests, whom the Jews afflicted and persecuted are the  husbandmen or servants.  S. Jerom. — This same parable was employed by Isaias, (v. 1.) where speaking of Christ, he says: My beloved had a vineyard, and he fenced it in. Tirinus. — He went into a far country, not by change of place, for he is every where, but by leaving the workmen the power of free-will, either to work or not to work; in the same manner as a man in a far country cannot oversee his husbandmen at home, but leaves them to themselves.  Ven. Bede. — This parable is thus morally explained: Jesus planted a Church with his own blood, surrounded it with evangelical doctrine, as with a hedge; dug a place for the wine-vat, by the abundance of spiritual graces which he has prepared for his Church; built a tower, by appointing his angels to guard each individual Christian, who are the husbandmen to whom he has let it out.  Nic. de Lyra.
• Ver. 2. The first servant whom the Almighty sent was Moses; but they sent him away empty; for, says the Psalmist, they provoked him to anger in the camp.  Ps. cv.  The second servant sent was David, whom they used reproachfully, saying: What have we to do with David? 3 Kings xii. 16.  The third was the school of the prophets; and which of the prophets did they not kill?  Mat. xxiii.  Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 7. From this it appears, that the chief priests and lawyers were not ignorant that Christ was the Messias promised in the law and the prophets, but their knowledge was afterwards blinded by their envy: for otherwise, had they known him to be true God, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory, says S. Paul.  For a further explanation, see S. Mat. xxi.  Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 8. They cast the heir, Jesus Christ, out of the vineyard, by leading him out of Jerusalem to be crucified. Theophy. — They had before cast him out by calling him a Samaritan and demoniac; (S. John, C. viii.) and again by refusing to receive him, and turning him over to the Gentiles.  S. Jerom.
• Ver. 9. The vineyard is given to others; as it is said, they shall come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God.  S. Jerom.
• Ver. 10. By this question, Christ shows that they were about to fulfil this prophecy, by casting him off, planning his death, and delivering him up to the Gentiles, by which he became the corner-stone, joining the two people of the Jews and Gentiles together, and forming out of them the one city and one temple of the faithful.  Ven. Bede. — The Church is the corner, joining together Jews and Gentiles; the head of it is Christ.  By the Lord hath this been done in our days, and it is wonderful in our eyes, seeing the prodigies which God has performed through him whom men reject as an impostor.  Theophy. and V.
• Ver. 12. The chief priests thus shew, that what our Saviour had just said was true, by thus seeking to lay their hands on him.  Ven. Bede.