Daily Bible Readings Tuesday June 2 2009 Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

June 2 2009 Tuesday Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Sts. Marcellinus and Peter

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Tobit 2:9-14
Douay-Rheims Challoner

But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them. Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow’s nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job. For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him, But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.

Responsorial Psalm 111:1-2, 7-9 (Ps 112 NAB)
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.
The just shall be in everlasting remembrance:
he shall not fear the evil hearing.
His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:
His heart is strengthened,
he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.
He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor:
his justice remaineth for ever and ever:
his horn shall be exalted in glory.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 12:13-17
Haydock New Testament

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians; to catch him in his words. They coming, say to him:

Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and carest not for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar; or shall we not give it?

But he knowing their hypocrisy, saith to them:

Why tempt you me? Bring me a penny that I may see it.

And they brought it to him. And he saith to them:

Whose is this image and inscription?

They say to him:

Cæsar’s.

And Jesus answering, said to them:

Render, therefore, to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.

And they marveled at him.

Haydock Commentary Tobit (Tobias) 2:9-14
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 9. But. This version is not in Greek or Heb.  C. — True zeal is not repressed by fear, as charity expels it.  1 Jo. iv.  W.
• Ver. 10. Now. Gr. “And that very night I was.” — He came. Gr. “I lay myself down, being defiled, beside the wall of the court, and my face was uncovered.”  H. — The touching the dead rendered a person unclean.  Num. xix. 11.
• Ver. 11. Swallow’s. Gr. denotes “sparrows,” or any other small birds: strouqia.  Serarius. — Eyes. Gr. observes that they were “opened.”  Heb. “by chance.” Yet “hares, and many men, sleep with their eyes open,” (Pliny xi. 37.) as was here the case.  S. Athan. Synops. — lf not, the dung might insinuate itself by rubbing.  It is extremely caustic.  Vales. 42.  Aldrov.17. &c. — The blindness of Tobias was only a suspension of sight.  C. — Blind. Gr. “white specks or skins came upon my eyes, and I went to the physicians, but they afforded me no relief.  But Achiachar fed me (H.) till I (or he) went to Elymais;” Heb. of Fagius, “into Germany.”  C. — Almniim. H.
• Ver. 12. Now. This is omitted in Greek and Heb. as far as v. 19.  S. Ambrose says beautifully, that Tobias “was more grieved that he could yield no assistance to others, than for the loss of his sight.”

Haydock Commentary Mark 12:13-17

• Ver. 14. The disciples of the Pharisees said this in order to induce our Saviour to answer them, “that they were not to pay tribute to Cæsar, being the people of God; an answer they confidently anticipated, and which the Herodians hearing, might immediately apprehend him, and thus remove the odium from themselves to Herod.  Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 15. Knowing their hypocrisy.[1]  The Latin word commonly signifies, cunning, but the Greek is here meant their dissimulation, or hypocrisy. Wi.
• Ver. 17. Although Christ clearly establishes here the strict obligation of paying to Cæsar what belongs to Cæsar, to the confusion of his very enemies, we shall still find them bringing forward against him the charge of disloyalty, as if he forbade tribute to be paid to Cæsar.  Luke xxiii. 2.  After the example of her divine Model, the Catholic Church has uniformly taught with S. Paul, the necessity of obeying the powers in being; and this not for fear of their wrath, but for conscience sake.  Render to Cæsar the money on which his image is stamped, but render yourselves cheerfully to God; for the light of thy countenance, O Lord, is stamped upon us, (Ps. iv.) and not the image of Cæsar.  S. Jerom. — With reason were they astonished at the wisdom of thisanswer, which eluded all their artifices, and taught them at the same time what they owed to their prince, and what they owed to God: and whoever hopes for the favour of heaven, must conscientiously observe this double duty to God and to the magistrate.