Daily Bible Readings Wednesday June 3 2009 Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga, martyr, and his companions, martyrs

June 3 2009 Wednesday Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga, martyr, and his companions, martyrs
Saint of the Day – Charles Lwanga and Companions

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Tobit 3:1-11a, 16-17a
DR Challoner
I highly recommend comparing this to the lectionary reading in the link above. The texts used appear to be very different. I tried to get it close

Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,

Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment: And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offences, nor those of my parents. For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.

And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.

Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father’s servant maids, Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying:

May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands. Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands?

At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink: But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach. And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord, She said:

Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes. I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth. Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,

At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God: And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm 24:2-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9 (Ps 25 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.
In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.
Neither let my enemies laugh at me:
for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.
Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause.
Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.
Direct me in thy truth, and teach me;
for thou art God my Saviour;
and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion;
and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember.
According to thy mercy remember thou me:
for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
The Lord is sweet and righteous:
therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.
He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 12:18-27
Haydock New Testament

And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying:

Master, Moses wrote unto us, that if any man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. Now there were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and died, leaving no issue. And the second took her, and died: and neither did he leave any issue. And the third in like manner. And the seven took her in like manner; and did not leave issue. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, when they shall arise again, whose wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife.

And Jesus answering, saith to them:

Do ye not therefore err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, bur are as the Angels in heaven. And, as concerning the dead that they rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err.

Haydock Commentary Tobias 3:1-15 :23-25
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Then, retiring, v. 25. — Tears. He manifests no degree of impatience.  C.
• Ver. 2. Judgment. Even in punishing, God remembers mercy, (H.) and never fails to perform what he has promised.
• Ver. 3. Parents, so as to punish me on their account. M. — The Scripture frequently seems to indicate that this is the case; (Ex. xx. 5.) and the Church still prays, Remember not, O Lord, our offences, nor those of our parents. C. — But children are only punished when they imitate the wicked conduct of their ancestors: they may be afflicted, though innocent, as their virtue will thus be tried, and shine more gloriously.  H. — The pagans, being convinced that God can be guilty of no injustice, and perceiving that people who appeared to be free from sin were yet unhappy, concluded that they were explaining the sins committed in another world.  Plotin. ii. 13.  Origen, prin. iii.  C. — This might arise from a confused notion of original sin.  Pascal’s Thoughts.  H.
• Ver. 6. Peace. Gr. “that I may be dissolved, and return to the earth; (lit. become earth) because it is more advantageous for me to die than to live, since I have heard false reproaches, and am much grieved.  Command that I may be freed from this necessity, to go to my eternal place.”  H.
• Ver. 7. Rages. In the Greek it is Ecbatana which was also called Rages.  For there were two cities in Media of name of Rages: Raguel dwelt in one of them and Gabelus in the other.  Ch.  M. — Profane authors mention a Rages in the vicinity of Ecbatana.  Diod. Bib. 19. — It may here denote the province.  W.
• Ver. 8. Asmodeus, “the fire of Media.”  Heb. “king of the devils,” of that country, exciting people to lust, (M. Serar. q. 8.) and destroying them. W. — Unto her. Gr. and Heb. intimate, when they first entered the nuptial chamber.  C. vi. 14.
• Ver. 9. Murder. Gr. “Dost thou not understand that thou hast suffocated thy husbands.  Thou has already had seven husbands, and has not received the name of any of them.  Why dost thou strike us on their account?  If they be dead, go along with them.  May we,” &c.  H.
• Ver. 10. At. Gr. and Heb. “Hearing these things she was much grieved, so as to be unable to breath; (H.  wste apagxasqai) or, on the point of strangling herself.”  Grot.  C. — But this interpretation is groundless, (Houbigant) and very injurious to Sara.  H. — She could not entertain the thought without sin.  Yet the Jews had very relaxed notions on this head.  Judg. xvi. 30.  1Kings xxxi. 4.  God approved the conduct of Sara.  C. — Gr. continues, “and she said, I am the only daughter of my father.  If I do this thing, (as the servants suggested) it will be a disgrace for him…and she prayed before the window; and said, Blessed,” v. 13.  H. — There is no mention of the three days.  Heb. and Syr. also omit v. 16 to 24.  C.
• Ver. 13. Name. Gr. “Blessed art thou O Lord, my God, and blessed the name of thy glory, holy and glorious for ever.  May all thy works praise thee for ever.”  H. — As she prayed for a long time, the Vulg. gives some sentences; and the Gr. and Heb. others.  Serar.  Salien.  M.
• Ver. 15. Earth. Holy men have thus desired to die, as was the case with Moses, Elias, Job, and S. Paul provided God was willing.  M.

Haydock Commentary Mark 12:18-27

• Ver. 26. The doctrine of the resurrection from the dead is clearly given in the book of Moses, where mention is made of the burning bush, from the midst of which God appeared to Moses: have you not read, I say, what God there said to him?  As God is the God of the living, you must be in an egregious error in imagining, that such as die in the eyes of the world not to return thither any more, die in the same manner in the eyes of God, to live no more.  V.