Sunday Bible Readings June 28 2009 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

June 28 2009 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24
Douay-Rheims Challoner

For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.

For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him. But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world: And they follow him that are of his side.

Responsorial Psalm 29:2, 4-6, 11-13 (Ps 30 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me:
and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.
Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell:
thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints:
and give praise to the memory of his holiness.
For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will.
In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.
The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me:
the Lord became my helper.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy:
thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:
To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret:
O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15
Haydock New Testament

That as in all things you abound in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us; so in this grace also you may abound. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich. For I mean not that others should have ease, and you distress: but by an equality. In this present time let your abundance supple their want: that their abundance also may supply your want, that there may be an equality, as it is written: He that had much, had nothing over: and he that had little, had no want.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark 5:21-43
Haydock New Testament

And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, named Jairus: and seeing him, he falleth down at his feet; And he besought him much, saying:

My daughter is at the point of death; come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.

And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him. And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things from many physicians: and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse: When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment. For she said:

Christ and the Woman with the Issue of Blood Paolo Veronese

If I shall but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the evil. And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said:

Who hath touched my garments?

And his disciples said to him:

Thou seest the multitude thronging thee; and sayest thou, Who hath touched me?

And he looked about to see her who had done this. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said to her:

Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be thou whole of the disease.

While he was yet speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue, saying:

Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the master any farther?

But Jesus having heard the word that was spoken, saith to the ruler of the synagogue:

Jesus Raising of Jarius Daughter Vasiliy Polenov 1871AD

Fear not: only believe.

And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, and John, the brother of James. And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much. And going in, he saith to them:

Why make you this outcry, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.

And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying: And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her:

Talitha, cumi; which is, being interpreted; damsel, (I say to thee) arise.

And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: now she was twelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment. And he charged them strictly that no man should know it: and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

Haydock Commentary Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-25
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 14. Health. Good. Gen. i. 31. C. — Poison, or medicine, (W.) medicamentum. W. — Poison and wild beasts become noxious to man only after sin. It is this which infects the veins. All may derive an antidote from Jesus Christ.
• WISDOM 2
• Ver. 24. Envy. Lucifer thought that the honour of the hypostatic union (C.) belonged to the angelic, rather than to the human nature; and this he was guilty of envy, (H.) and strove to become like the most High. Is. xiv. 14. S. Bern. ser. xvii. in Cant. Corn. A. Lap. &c.

Haydock Commentary 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15

• Ver. 12-13. He tells them that it is the will that chiefly makes their charity acceptable to God, who sees the heart. And that the design is not to make others live at their ease, in a richer condition than those who give, but to make a kind of equality, their brethren in Judea being now in great poverty and want. Wi. — God regards two things in our alms: first, the zeal and good-will with which we give our alms; secondly the greatness of our charities, that is, if they be proportionate to our means. If you have little, give a little, but with good-will; if you have much, give also much, but with equal benevolence and zeal. God measures the extent of our charity by the greatness of our zeal, not requiring of us what we have not, but what we have to spare, relieving others, without overcharging ourselves. V. — Yielding our superfluities, that the poor may not want necessaries. Menochius.
• Ver. 14. This present time, let your abundance, &c. The sense, according to some interpreters is, that the time may perhaps come, when they in Judea may supply the wants of those in Achaia in the same kind. Others rather understand it of a communication of spiritual for temporal goods, that your alms, by the assistance of those who will pray for you, and your charities, may obtain for your the spiritual riches of grace, which every one stands chiefly in need of. Wi.
• Ver. 15. He that had much, &c. The words were spoken of those who gathered the manna. Exod. xvi. 18. Every one was there ordered to gather such a particular measure, called a gomer, and they who for fear of wanting, gathered more, found they had no more than the measure they were ordered to take, and they, who as it happened, took less, still found they had their measure of a gomer. By this example, S. Paul exhorts them to contribute to the relief of their brethren, with confidence in God’s providence, and without fear of wanting themselves. Wi.

Haydock Commentary Mark 5:21-43

• Ver. 23. S. Matt. says: my daughter is even now dead. The sense in both is exactly the same. S. Matt. attended rather to the thoughts of Jarius, than to his words; for, as he left her dying, he could not reasonably hope to find her still in the same state; and, as he expected she was already dead, when he spoke this to Jesus, S. Matt. relates what the man thought at that instant, not what he said. S. Aug.
• Ver. 28. Touch his garment. Almighty God is pleased to give occasionally to the relics and clothes of his pious and faithful servants, a degree of virtue. See Acts v, and xix, where the very shadow of S. Peter, and the handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched the body of S. Paul, and were brought to the sick, cured their diseases, and banished the wicked spirits. See S. Chrysostom, T. 5. contra Gent. in vit. Babylœ. S. Basil saith: “he that toucheth the bone of a martyr, receiveth in some degree holiness of the grace or virtue that is therein. Bas. in Psalm cxv.
• Ver. 30. Virtue that hath proceeded from him. Virtue to heal this woman’s malady proceeded from Christ, though she touched but his coat: so when the saints by their relics and garments perform miracles, the grace and force thereof cometh from our Saviour; they being but the means of instruments of the same. B.
• Ver. 35. Ruler of the synagogue. His house is understood.
• Ver. 36. Only believe. Dissenters grossly abuse this and other similar texts of Scripture, to prove that faith alone will suffice for justification; whereas God only declares, that he requires a faith in his almighty power for the performance of miracles, and that without this necessary predisposition, he will not do any miracles. See v. 5, of the following chapter.
• Ver. 41. Only three resurrections from the dead are mentioned as performed by our Saviour: one just dead; one carried out to be buried; and Lazarus, already in his tomb. These represent the different states of sinners dead in sin, some more desperate than others. To such as have been for years in sin, and have none to intercede for them, we must apply the words of Christ, suffer the dead to bury the dead. Ven. Bede, and S. Aug. de verb. Dom. serm. 44.