Daily Bible Readings Saturday June 6 2009 Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

June 6 2009 Saturday Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Norbert

About the sources used. The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the comparable readings alongside traditional Catholic commentary as published in the Haydock Bible for your own personal study. Readings vary depending on your local calendar.

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Tobit 12:1, 5-15, 20
Douay-Rheims Challoner

Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him:

What can we give to this holy man, that is come with thee?

So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought, Then he said to them secretly,

Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you. For it is good to hide the secret of a king: to reveal and confess the works of God. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.

But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son’s wife from the devil. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord. It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.

Responsorial Psalm Tobit 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8
DR Challoner Text Only

For thou scourgest, and thou savest:
thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again:
and there is none that can escape thy hand.
See then what he hath done with us,
and with fear and trembling give ye glory to him:
and extol the eternal King of worlds in your works.
As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity:
because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation,
Be converted therefore, ye sinners,
and do justice before God,
believing that he will shew his mercy to you.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 12:38-44
Haydock New Testament

And he said to them in his doctrine:

Beware of the Scribes, who love to walk in long robes, and to be saluted in the market-place, And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues, and to have the highest places at suppers: Who devour the houses of widows under the pretense of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.

And Jesus sitting over-against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. And calling his disciples together, he saith to them:

Amen, I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury. For they all did cast in of their abundance: but she, of her want, cast in all she had, even her whole living.

Haydock Commentary Tobias 12:1, 5-15, 20
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1.  What.  Gr. Heb. and Syr.  C.  “See thou give the man who has come with thee his hire, and something must be added to it;” (H.) as he had promised (C. vii. 19.) a drachm a day, (C.) and more if they returned safe.  H.
• Ver. 6.  Said.  Gr. “Calling the two, in private, he said to them.”
• Ver. 7.  Hide.  Gr. “To bless God, and to extol his name, exposing with honour the words of God, and delay not to confess unto him. For,” &c.  H. — The Old Vulg. greatly abridges the remainder of this book, having only, “Then Raphael having called the two Tobies, said to them, Since thou hast not delayed to arise, and to leave thy meals to bury the dead, I have been sent to try thee to heal thee, and to deliver thy daughter-in-law.  I am Raphael, one of the angels who assist and appear before the brightness of God.  Hereupon the two Tobies were startled, and fell prostrate on the ground, and were seized with fear.  And Raphael said, Fear not, Peace be with you.  Bless the Lord all the days of your life, and sing his praises.  You thought that I eat when I was at table with you.  But you saw with your eyes; (H. only a vision.  C.) wherefore bless the Lord upon the earth, and praise his goodness.  As for me, I return to him who sent me.  Write down all that has happened.  The angel having spoken thus to Tobias, the latter wrote this prayer as a monument of his joy, and said, Blessed be the Lord, who is great in eternity, because his reign endures for ever.  It is He who strikes, and who shews I mercy, who conducts to the grave, and who, by his majesty, rescues from the greatest miseries; and no one can withdraw himself from his hands.  End of Tobias the just.”  H. — King.  Secrecy is the soul of human councils, to prevent an enemy from thwarting our designs: but nothing can withstand the divine power.  It is therefore proper to testify our gratitude for favours received, as the ancient saints have done by their canticles.  C.
• Ver. 8.  Alms.  Gr. adds, “and justice.  Better is a little with justice, than much with iniquity.”  H. — Fasting and alms are like the wings of prayer.  W.  See C. iv. 11.
• Ver. 9.  Everlasting.  This word is not found in Greek, though sufficiently implied; as liberality does not always secure a person’s life, or temporal happiness.  C. — Gr. “Those who perform alms-deeds and justice, shall be filled with life.  But sinners are enemies,” &c.
• Ver. 10.  Soul.  If this were understood of the present life, nothing could be less accurate, as the wicked often prosper.  See Ps. x. 6.  Jo. xii. 25.  C.
• Ver. 11.  I.  Gr. “I will not hide from you any word or thing.  I said then, It is good to conceal the mystery of the king, but glorious to manifest the works of God.  And now, when thou and thy daughter-in-law, Sarra, did pray, I brought forward the memorial of your prayer before the holy one.”  H. — The angels are represented as God’s ministers, offering our prayers to him.  Apoc. viii. 3.  C.  S. Aug.  W. — Philo styles them ambassadors.  Socrates says, “every demon (or good spirit) is between God and mortals.” Plutarch. — Inter homines cælicolasque, vectores hinc precum, inde donorum.  Apuleius de Deo Socrat.  C. — Gr. continues, “and when thou didst bury the dead, in like manner, I was present with thee; when thou didst not delay to rise and leave thy dinner, that going thou mightest cover the dead; in thy good work, thou wast not hidden from me: but I was with thee. And,” &c. v. 14.  H.
• Ver. 13.  Thee.  This rule is invariable, that the good may advance in virtue, and set a pattern to the world, (Heb. ii. 18. and xii. 6.  Acts xiv. 21.  C.) and cancel their smallest faults.
• Ver. 14.  From the devil, is not in Greek.  H. — In this history, as well as in other parts of Scripture, we have convincing proofs of the good which each one receives from his angel guardian, and from the other blessed spirits.  See S. Luke xv. and xvi.  S. Chrys. in col. hom. 3.  S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. xi. 31. &c.  W.
• Ver. 15.  Raphael.  We know also the names of Michael and Gabriel.  All others are apocryphal; such as Uriel, Saltiel, Jeadriel Barachiel, &c. — Seven.  This number is clearly specified by S. John, Apoc. i. 4.  A mass in their honour was approved by Pius IV.  It is supposed that the seven deacons in the Church of Rome, and of Jerusalem, were instituted in imitation of them.  The kings, Assuerus, &c. had seven chief officers.  Est. i. 10. C. — Lord, ready to fulfil his orders, as innumerable other angels, of inferior degree, are likewise.  M.  Dan. vii. 10. — These were the princes of the heavenly court.  S. Jerom (con. Jovin.) admits only seven orders of angels.  C. — Gr. “I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who offer up the prayers of the saints, and go out before the glory of the Holy One.  And they were both troubled,” &c. (H.) at so unusual a thing, (M.) and filled with reverential awe.  H. — They might also suspect that death would shortly follow.  C.  Gen. xvi. 13.
• Ver. 20.  It.  Gr. “And now confess to God, because I ascend to him who sent me.  Write ye all these occurrences in a book.  And they arose, and beheld him no longer; and they proclaimed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.”  H. — Almost all interpreters infer from this injunction, (C.) that the work before us was originally composed by these holy men.  H.

 

Haydock Commentary Mark 12:38-44

• Ver. 43.  God accepts alms, if they are corresponding to each one’s abilities; and the more able a man is, the more must he bestow in charities.  The widow’s mite was very acceptable to God, and very meritorious to herself; because though small the offering considered in itself, it was great considering her extreme indigence.
• Ver. 44.  But she, of her want,[2] or indigence, out of what she wanted to subsist by, as appeareth by the Greek.  Wi.