Daily Bible Readings June 27 2009 Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

June 27 2009 Saturday Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Cyril of Alexandria

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Abraham lavant les pieds aux anges 1854 Felix Henri Giacomotti

Genesis 18:1-15
Douay-Rheims Challoner

And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground. And he said:

Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant.

And they said:

Do as thou hast spoken.

Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her:

Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.

And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree. And when they had eaten, they said to him:

Where is Sara thy wife?

He answered:

Lo she is in the tent.

And he said to him:

I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son.

Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. And she laughed secretly, saying:

After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?

And the Lord said to Abraham:

Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed? Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

Sara denied, saying:

I did not laugh:

for she was afraid. But the Lord said:

Nay; but thou didst laugh.

Responsorial Psalm Luke 1:46-50 and 53-55
Haydock NT Text Only

And Mary said:

My soul doth magnify the Lord:
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour.
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid:
for behold, from henceforth all generations will call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done great things to me:
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is from generation to generations,
to them that fear him.
He hath filled the hungry with good things:
and the rich he hath sent away empty.
He hath received Israel, his servant, being mindful of his mercy.
As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed, for ever.

Jesus Centurion Paulo Cagliari

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 8:5-17
Haydock New Testament

And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying:

Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grievously tormented.

And Jesus saith to him:

I will come, and heal him.

And the centurion making answer, said:

I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he cometh: and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it.

And Jesus hearing this, marveled, and said to them that followed him:

Amen, I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. And I say unto you, that many shall come from the East, and the West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And Jesus said to the centurion:

Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee.

And the servant was healed at the same hour. And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying, and sick of a fever: And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered to them. And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and all that were sick he healed: That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore out diseases.

Haydock Commentary Genesis 18:1-15
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Sitting, &c. that he might lose no opportunity of exercising hospitality.
• Ver. 2. Men in outward appearance, but angels indeed.  Heb. xiii. 2. S. Aug. de C. D. xvi. c. 29.  Some have supposed, that one of them was the Son of God, whom Abraham adored, and who bears throughout the chief authority.  Tres vidit et unum adoravit. He saw three and adored one, as we read in the Church office.  In the former supposition, which is generally adopted, this adoration was only a civil ceremony, if Abraham considered them as mere men; or it might be mixed with a degree of religious, though inferior veneration, if he imagined they were angels; or in fine, he adored God in his representatives.  H.
• Ver. 4. Wash ye, or let your feet be washed by me, or by my servants, laventur. M.
• Ver. 5. Therefore, Providence has directed you hither.  Abraham promises but little, and gives much, in the true spirit of generous hospitality.  C.
• Ver. 6. Measures, or one epha; that is, three pecks and three pints, English corn measure. — Flour, of the finest quality, similæ. — Hearth, as being soonest ready.
• Ver. 7. Himself. These rich and truly noble people, do not esteem it beneath themto wait on strangers.  They provide abundance, but no dainties.  H.
• Ver. 9. Eaten apparently.  Tob. xii. 19. or perhaps they consumed the food, as fire may be said to eat.  S. Justin’s Dial.
• Ver. 10. Time, or season of the year ensuing, if I be alive; which he says after the manner of men, as he had assumed also the human form.  H.
• Ver. 12. Laughed, as if the promise were incredible. — My lord, or husband, which title of respect, S. Peter i. C. iii. 6, commends.  D.
• Ver. 13. Indeed. This was the import of Sara’s words.  By thus revealing what was secretly done in the tent, he shewed himself to be more than man.
• Ver. 14. Hard. So Gabriel says to the blessed Virgin: there is nothing impossible to God.
• Ver. 15. Afraid; which does not entirely clear her of sin: for though she might innocently laugh, if she thought the person who spoke was only a man, yet she ought not to have told an untruth; and if she reflected, that he had disclosed what she supposed no one knew, and thereby manifested his superiority over man, her denial was still more inexcusable.  But she was taken, as it were, by surprise; and therefore the Lord reproves her very gently.  H.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 8:5-17

• Ver. 5. A centurion. The same who (Luke vii. 3,) is said to have sent messengers to our Saviour.  But there is no contradiction: for what a man does by his servants, or friends, he is many times said to do himself.  He came not in person out of humanity, but by his message shewed an extraordinary faith.  Wi. — The centurion shews a much stronger faith in the power of Christ, than those who let down the sick man through the roof, because he thought the word of Christ alone sufficient to raise the deceased.  And our Saviour, to reward his confidence, not only grants his petition, as he does on other occasions, but promises to go with him to his house to heal his servant.  Chry. hom. xxvii.  The centurion was a Gentile, an officer in the Roman army.  According to S. Luke he did not come to him in person, but sent messengers to him, who desired him come: “Lord, I am not worthy,” &c.  These difficulties may be easily removed.  A person is said to appear before the judge, when his council appears for him; so he may be that he first sent his messengers, and afterwards went himself.  As to the second difficulty, it may be said the messengers added that of their own accord, as appears from the text of S. Luke.  M. — S. Augustin is of opinion that he did not go himself in person, for he thought himself unworthy, but that he sent first the ancients of the Jews, and then his friends, which last were to address Jesus in his name and with his words.  l. ii de cons. Evang. c. xx.  Thus we see that the request of the two sons of Zebedee was made by themselves to Jesus Christ, according to S. Mark; (x. 35,) and by the mouth of their mother, according to S. Matthew, xx. 20.
• Ver. 7. On this occasion our Saviour does what he never did before: every where indeed he meets the will of his supplicants, but here he runs before his request, saying: “I will come;” and this he does to teach us to imitate the virtue of the centurion.
• Ver. 8. Origen says, when thou eatest and drinkest the body and blood of our Lord, he entereth under thy roof.  Thou also, therefore, humbling thyself, say: Domine, non sum dignus; Lord, I am not worth, &c.  So said S. Chrysostom in his mass, Litturg. Græc. sub finem; and so doth the Catholic Church say at this day in every mass.  See S. Augustin. Ep. cxviii. ad Janu.  B. — See Luke vii. 6.
• Ver. 10. Christ here compares the faith of the centurion with that of the people in general, and not with that of his blessed mother and the apostles, whose faith was beyond a doubt much greater.  M. — The Greek says, “neither in Israel.” — Jesus hearing this, marvelled. That is, by his outward carriage, says S. Aug. seemed to admire: but knowing all things, he could not properly admire any thing. — I have not found so great faith in Israel. This need not be understood of every one, but of those whom he had cured.  Wi.
• Ver. 11. In consequence of the faith of this Gentile, Jesus Christ takes occasion to declare that many Gentiles would be called to sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven, which is frequently represented under the figure of a feast.  See chap. xxii. 2.  Luke xii. 29.  xvi. 16.  Apoc. xix. 9.  In ancient times, the guests were reclined on beds when they took their means.  V.
• Ver. 12. Whilst the Jews, who glory in descending from the patriarchs, and who, on this title, are children and heirs of the celestial kingdom which had been promised them, shall be excluded for having rendered themselves unworthy by their unbelief.  V. — Shall be cast out into exterior darkness. This is spoken so as to imply a comparison to a supper in a great room, with a number of lights, when they who are turned out in the night, stand without, starving, weeping, and gnashing their teeth.  Wi.
• Ver. 14. Into Peter’s house. That is, which had been Peter’s house; for now he had quitted house, and all things to follow Christ.  Wi. — According to S. Mark, (i. 29,) and S. Luke, (iv. 38,) the cure of Peter’s mother-in-law seems to have been performed previously to the sermon on the mount, of which S. Luke makes mention in chap. vi.  We may suppose that S. Matthew mentions it in this order, on occasion of the miracle performed in the same place on the centurion’s servant.  V.
• Ver. 17. In the Greek of the seventy-two interpreters, for infirmities we have amartiaV, sins; but the evangelist refers this to our bodily infirmities, because, as S. Chrysostom observes, diseases are the punishment of sins, and frequently arrive from the diseases of the soul.  M. — The text of Isaias here quoted, regards the Messias literally.  V. — He took our infirmities. The words signify both the distempers of the body and the infirmities of the soul, for Christ cured both.  Wi.