Daily Bible Readings Monday June 22 2009 Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

St Thomas More

June 22 2009 Monday The Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Thomas More

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Genesis 12:1-9
DR Challoner Text Only

And the Lord said to Abram:

Departure of Abraham for Canaan Jacopo Bassano 1571AD

Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when

he went forth from Haran. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it, Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him:

To thy seed will I give this land.

And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

Responsorial Psalm 32:12-13, 18-20 and 22 (Ps 33 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord:
the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.
The Lord hath looked from heaven:
he hath beheld all the sons of men.
Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him:
and on them that hope in his mercy.
To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 7:1-5
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

JUDGE not, that you may not be judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye: and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye: and behold a beam is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Haydock Commentary Genesis 12:1-9
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Said: not after his father’s death, but before he left Ur; (M.) unless, perhaps, Abram received a second admonition at Haran, which, from his dwelling there with his father, &c., is styled his country.  He leaves his kindred, Nachor and his other relations, except Sarai and Lot, who go with him unto Chanaan; and even his own house, or many of his domestics and effects, and full of faith, goes in quest of an unknown habitation.  Heb. xi. 8.  H. — S. Stephen clearly distinguishes these two calls of Abram.  From the second, the 430 years of sojournment, mentioned Gal. 3. Ex. 12, must be dated.  C. — This is the third grand epoch of the world, about 2083, when God chooses one family to maintain the one faith, which he had all along supported.  See W. &c.
• Ver. 3. In thee, &c. or in the Messias, who will be one of thy descendants, and the source of all the blessings to be conferred on any of the human race.  Gal. iii. 16.  Many of the foregoing promises regarded a future world, and Abram was by no means incredulous, when he found himself afflicted here below, as if God had forgot his promises.  C. — He was truly blessed, in knowing how to live poor in spirit, even amid riches and honours; faithful in all tribulations and trials; following God in all things. v. 1.
• Ver. 5. Gotten, (fecerant): made or acquired, either by birth or purchase, &c.  M.
• Ver. 6. Sichem. At the foot of M. Garizim, where Abram offered his first sacrifice in the land.  Deut. xi. 30.  Ken. — Noble; on account of the many tall and shady oaks, whence the Sept. have the high oak.  Heb. Elon more, the plain of Moreh, or of ostension, because God shewed Abram from this place, situated about the middle of the promised land, what countries he would give to him in his posterity, after having exterminated the Chanaanites, who then occupied the land as their own.  The mentioning of these idolatrous nations here, gives us reason to admire the faith and constancy of Abram, who neither doubted of the fulfilling of this promise, nor hesitated to adore the true God publicly. v. 7.  Hence there is no reason for accounting this an interpolation.  H.
• Ver. 8. Bethel, as it was called in the days of Moses, being the ancient Luza.  C. 28.  On the west, Hebrew, towards the sea or Mediterranean, which lay west of Palestine.  Bethel signifies the house of God, being honoured with two altars.  H.
• Ver. 9. Proceeding to the south, Heb.: means also the desert, as the Sept. generally translate negeb: other interpreters agree with the Vulgate.  C.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 7:1-5

• Ver. 1. Judge not,[1] or condemn not others rashly, that you may not be judged or condemned.  Wi. — S. Jerom observes, Christ does not altogether forbid judging, but directs us how to judge.  Where the thing does not regard us, we should not undertake to judge.  Where it well bear a favourable interpretation, we should not condemn.  Magistrates and superiors, whose office and duty require them to judge faults, and for their prevention to condemn and punish them, must be guided by evidence, and always lean towards the side of mercy, where there are mitigating circumstances.  Barefaced vice and notorious sinners should be condemned and reprobated by all.  A. — In this place, nothing more is meant than that we should always interpret our neighbor’s actions in the most favourable light.  God permits us to judge of such actions as cannot be done with a right intention, as murder.  As to indifferent actions, we must always judge  in the most favourable sense.  There are two things in which we must be particularly on our guard: 1. With what intention such an action was done.  2. Whether the person who appears wicked will not become good.  S. Jerom.
• Ver. 2. This rule, which God will infallibly follow, should put a check to the freedom with which we so frequently condemn our neighbour.  A. — As we behave towards our neighbours, interpreting their actions with charitableness, and excusing their intentions with mildness; or, on the contrary, judging them with severity, and condemning them without pity; so shall we receive our judgment.  M. — As the pardon of our sins is proportioned to the pardon we afford to others, so also will our judgment be proportioned to the judgment we pass on others.  If our neighbour be surprised by sin, we must not reproach or confound him for it, but mildly admonish him.  Correct your brother, not as an enemy, taking revenge, but as a physician, administering appropriate remedies, assisting him with prudent counsels, and strengthening him in the love of God.  Chry. hom. xxiii.
• Ver. 3. “Mote and beam,” light and grievous sins.  M.
• Ver. 5. Thou hypocrites, cast out first the beam, &c.  Correct first thy own greater faults, before thou censure the lesser failings of others.  Wi.