Daily Bible Readings Monday June 15 2009 Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

June 15 2009 Monday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Servant of God Orlando Catanii

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2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Haydock New Testament

AND we helping, do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee: and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation. Giving no offence to any one, that our ministry be not blamed. But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, In chastity, in knowledge, in long suffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned, In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice, on the right hand, and on the left: Through honour, and dishonour, through bad name and good name: as seducers, and yet true: as unknown, and yet known: As dying, and behold we live: as chastised, and not killed: As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing, and possessing all things.

Responsorial Psalm 97:1, 2b, 3ab, 3cd-4 (Ps 98 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things.
His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy.
The Lord hath made known his salvation:
he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles.
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and sing.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 5:38-42
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, not to resist evil: but if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall force thee to go one mile, go with him other two. Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away.

Haydock Commentary 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. We helping, or in the Greek, working together, that is, with God, as employed by him, or as his ministers, and ambassadors, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain, by resisting his interior graces, by an idle, or a wicked life.  Wi.
• Ver. 2. Now is the day of salvation, by the coming of your Redeemer.  Wi.
• Ver. 3. In this, and in the following verses, S. Paul shews his anxious solicitude not to give any, the least occasion of scandal, lest some reproach might fall upon the ministry of the gospel: for nothing is more likely to cast a blemish on the sanctity of religion, than the want of conduct in any of its ministers.  If what they say be true, why do their own lives correspond so little with what they say.  This will be the cry of all libertines.  Calmet.
• Ver. 8. The apostles maintained the character, and fulfilled the duties of the ministers of Christ, equally in prosperity and adversity; they continued to speak the truth, though regarded by the Jews as seducers; exposed to all kinds of dangers, they relied on God, who preserved them, though in the midst of dangers, and of death itself.  Though they possessed nothing in this world, yet God never permitted them to remain in want: his providence procured for them all things necessary.  Though they had nothing in their possession, yet they procured relief for others, by the alms, of which they were made the disposers, though this latter part is generally understood of the spiritual riches, which they bestowed upon their auditors.  Estius.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 5:38-42

• Ver. 38. Hence your doctors have concluded that revenge, equal to the injury, was permitted.
• Ver. 39. Not to resist evil;[6] i.e. not to resist or revenge thyself of him that hath done evil to thee. — Turn him the other cheek.  Let him have also thy cloak. These are to be understood as admonitions to Christians, to forgive every one, and to bear patiently all manner of private injuries.  But we must not from hence conclude it unlawful for any one to have recourse to the laws, when a man is injured, and cannot have justice by any other means.  Wi. — what is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge; but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ, nor S. Paul, turn the other cheek.  S. John xviii. and Acts xxiii.  Ch. — Hence also the Anabaptists infer, that it is not lawful to go to law even for our just rights; and Luther, that Christians ought not to resist the Turks.  B.
• Ver. 41. Go with him other two.[7]  I know many interpreters would have it to signify no more than two in all.  But the literal sense of the Latin, and also of the best Greek MSS. (as Dr. Wells takes notice in his amendments to the Prot. translation) express two more, i.e. not only as far again, but twice as far.  And thus it is expounded by S. Aug. Serm. Domini in monte. t. iii. p. 193.  Ed Ben.  Wi. — Continue to be his guide sooner that lose patience, or be wanting in charity.  A.