Daily Bible Readings Monday June 8 2009 Tenth Week of Ordinary Time

June 8 2009 Monday Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. William of York

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2 Corinthians 1:1-7
Haydock New Testament

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation, Who comforteth us in all our tribulation: that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. Now whether we be in tribulation, for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

Responsorial Psalm 33:2-9 (Ps 34 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.
In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 5:1-12
Haydock New Testament

NOW Jesus seeing the multitudes, went up into a mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him. And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you untruly, for my sake; Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for your reward is very great in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets, that were before you.

Haydock Commentary 2 Corinthians 1:1-7
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. S. Timothy, it appears, had been sent to Corinth to confirm the faithful in the doctrine which they had received from S. Paul.  After he had fulfilled this commission, he returned to S. Paul, and gave him an account how they had behaved, and what good effects his first letter had produced.  He styles him brother, to conciliate to him the esteem and respect of the Corinthians.  This epistle is not merely addressed to the Corinthians, but to all Achaia, of which Corinth was the capital.  Estius. — Others think that Timothy had left Corinth before S. Paul’s first epistle had arrived thither; and that this determined S. Paul to send Titus with another disciple thither.  See 2 Cor. xii. 18.  From him S. Paul had the consolation to learn the happy effects produced by his first letter.  See ibid. vi. 7. 11.
• Ver. 4. Wherewith we also are exhorted by God. The Latin interpreter sometimes translates the same Greek word by exhorted, sometimes by comforted: so the sense may be, with which we are comforted by God. Wi. — S. Paul knew that his former letter had afflicted them exceedingly; here he comforts them by telling them that God had filled him with consolation in order to comfort them.  The Greek rather signifies, by the consolation with which we are comforted.  Either explanation is sufficiently clear, though the latter is stronger.  We may here remark the great tenderness S. Paul had for the Corinthians, since he here insinuates that he had received comfort from God merely to communicate it to them.  Calmet.
• Ver. 5. S. Paul here styles his own sufferings, the sufferings of Christ, to shew that Christ take part, and suffers in all his members.  S. Chrys. — Though it is generally understood to signify the sufferings undergone for Christ.  Estius. — If we consider the very intimate union that exists between Jesus Christ, who is the head, and every one of the living members of his body, that is, the Church, that whatever any one suffers, for the cause of truth, Christ is said to suffer, as the Lord said to Saul, why persecutest thou me? and that whatever is given to any indigent brother in the name of a disciple, Christ receives as given to himself, can we want any further proof of the excellence and power of good works, which begin and terminate in charity?  A.
• Ver. 6. Or whether we be exhorted,[1] for your exhortation and salvation. These words are not in the present Greek copies; the omission is not of moment, being in a manner a repetition of what is in the same verse: the sense is, that this happens to us for your instruction, and that you may be exhorted, or comforted by our example.  This is also signified by the following words, which makes you bear (lit. which worketh the enduring) the like tribulations, as we suffer. Wi. — Whatever happens to us, it will always be to your advantage.  And certainly it is the greatest comfort when the faithful are in affliction, to see their pastors preaching and planting the faith of Christ, in the midst of afflictions and persecutions.  This gives them the greatest courage to bear patiently all adversity, being convinced after the example of their divine master, that by many tribulations we are to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Cajetan.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 5:1-12

• Ver. 1. What is said here, does not follow immediately what was said in the preceding chapter.  See Luke vi.
• Ver. 2. Opening his mouth. It is a Hebraism, to signify he began to speak.  Wi. — This is a common expression in Scripture, to signify something important is about to be spoken.  Thus it is used in various other places, as “Job opening his mouth cursed his day, and said,” &c.  Daniel, c. x. et alibi.  Jan. — And why is it added, says S. Chry. “and opening his mouth,” without doubt that we might know, that not only when he spoke, but even when silent, he gave instruction: sometimes, therefore, he opened his mouth; at other times he spoke by his very actions.  Hom. xv.
• Ver. 3. The poor in spirit;[1] which, according to the common exposition, signifies the humble of mind and heart.  Yet some understand it of such as are truly in poverty and want, and who bear their indigent condition with patience and resignation.  Wi. — That is, the humble; and they whose spirit is not set upon riches.  Ch. — It is not without reason that the beatitudes are disposed of in this order.  Each preceding one prepares the way for what immediately follows, furnishing us in particular with spiritual arms of such graces as are necessary for obtaining the virtue of the subsequent beatitude.  Thus the poor in spirit, i.e. the truly humble, will mourn for their transgressions, and whoever is filled with sorrow and confusion for his own sins, cannot but be just, and behave to others with meekness and clemency; when possessed of these virtues, he then becomes pure and clean of heart.  Peace of conscience reigns in this assemblage of virtues, and cannot be expelled the soul by any tribulations, persecutions, or injustices of men.  Chry. hom. xv.  What is this poverty of spirit, but humility and contrition?  This virtue of humility is placed in the first place, because it is the parent of every other virtue, as pride is the mother of every vice.  Pride deprived our first parents of their original innocence, and nothing but humility can restore us to our former purity.  We may pray and fast, we may be possessed of mercy, chastity, or any virtues, if humility do not accompany them, they will be like the virtue of the Pharisee, without foundation, without fruit.  Hom. xv.
• Ver. 4. The land of the living, or the kingdom of heaven.  The evangelist prefers calling it the land of the living in this place, to shew that the meek, the humble, and the oppressed, who are spoiled of the possession of this earth by the powerful and the proud, shall obtain the inheritance of a better land.  M. — “They shall possess the land,” is the reward annexed by our Saviour to meekness, that he might not differ in any point from the old law, so well known to the persons he was addressing.  David, in psalm xxxvi, had made the same promise to the meek.  If temporal blessings are promised to some of the virtues in the beatitudes, it is that temporal blessings might always accompany the more solid rewards of grace.  But spiritual rewards are always the principal, always ranked in the first place, all who practice these virtues are pronounced blessed.  Hom. xv.
• Ver. 5. Not those that mourn for worldly motives, but such as mourn for their sins, are blessed.  The sorrow that is according to God, says S. Paul, worketh penance steadfast unto salvation, but the sorrow of the world worketh death.  2 Cor. vii. 10.  The same is promised in S. John; (xvi. 20,) you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.  M.
• Ver. 6. Hunger and thirst; i.e. spiritually, with an earnest desire of being just and holy.  But others again understand such as endure with patience the hardships of hunger and thirst.  Wi. — Rupertus understands those to whom justice is denied, such as poor widows and orphans.  Maldonatus those who from poverty really suffer hunger and thirst, because justice is not done them.  M. — They shall be filled with every kind of good in their heavenly country.  I shall be filled when thy glory shall appear.  Psalm xvi.
• Ver. 7. Not only the giving of alms, but the practice of all works of mercy, both corporal and spiritual, are recommended here, and the reward will be given on that day when God will repay every one according to his works, and will do by us, as we have done by our brethren.  A.
• Ver. 8. The clean of heart are either those who give themselves to the practice of every virtue, and are conscious to themselves of no evil, or those who are adorned with the virtue of charity.  For nothing is so necessary as this purity in such as desire to see God.  Keep peace with all and chastity, says S. Paul, for without this none can see God.  Many are merciful to the poor and just in their dealings, but abstain not from luxury and lust.  Therefore our Saviour, wishing to shew that mercy was not sufficient, adds, that if we would see God, we must also be possessed of the virtue of purity.  S. Chry. hom. xv.  By this, we shall have our heart exempt from all disordinate love of creatures, and shall be exclusively attached to God.  A. — The clean of heart, i.e. they who are clean from sin: who are pure in body and mind, says S. Chrysostom.  It seems to be a particular admonition to the Jews, who were mostly solicitous about an outward and legal cleanness. Wi.
• Ver. 9. To be peaceful ourselves and with others, and to bring such as are at variance together, will entitle us to be children of God.  Thus we shall be raised to a participation in the honour of the only begotten Son of God, who descended from heaven to bring peace to man, and to reconcile him with his offended Creator.  Chry. hom. xv.
• Ver. 10. Heretics and malefactors suffer occasionally, but they are not on this account blessed, because they suffer not for justice.  For, says S. Aug. they cannot suffer for justice, who have divided the Church; and where sound faith or charity is wanting, there cannot be justice.  Cont. epis. Parm. l. i. c. 9. ep. 50. ps. 4. conc. 2.  B. — By justice here we understand virtue, piety, and the defence of our neighbour.  To all who suffer on this account, he promises a seat in his heavenly kingdom.  We must not think that suffering persecution only, will suffice to entitle us to the greatest promises.  The persecutions we suffer must be inflicted on us on his account, and the evils spoken of us must be false and contradicted by our lives.  If these are not the causes of our sufferings, so far from being happy, we shall be truly miserable, because then our irregular lives would be the occasion of the persecutions we suffer.  Chry. hom. xv.
• Ver. 12. Reward, in Latin merces, in Greek misqoV, signifies wages done for hire, and due for work, and presupposes merit.  B. — If you participate in the sufferings of the prophets, you will equally participate in their glory, their reward.  A.