Daily Bible Readings Monday July 6 2009 14th Week of Ordinary Time

July 6 2009 Monday Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Maria Goretti

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Genesis 28:10-22a
Douay-Rheims Challoner

But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran. And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place. And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it. And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him:

I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED. And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said:

Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

And trembling, he said:

How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza. And he made a vow, saying:

If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, And I shall return prosperously to my father’s house: the Lord shall be my God: And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God.

Responsorial Psalm 90:1-4, 14-15ab (Ps 91 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High,
shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
He shall say to the Lord:
Thou art my protector, and my refuge:
my God, in him will I trust.
For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters:
and from the sharp word.
He will overshadow thee with his shoulders:
and under his wings thou shalt trust.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him:
I will protect him because he hath known my name.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him:
I am with him in tribulation

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 9:18-26
Haydock New Testament

While he was speaking these things to them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying:

Lord, my daughter is just now dead: but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

And Jesus rising up, followed him, with his disciples. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within herself:

If I shall only touch his garment, I shall be healed.

But Jesus turning about, and seeing her, said:

Take courage, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole.

And the woman was made whole from that hour. And when Jesus came into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude in an uproar, he said:

Give place: for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth.

And they laughed scornfully at him. And when the crowd was turned out, he went in, and took her by the hand: and the girl arose. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that country.

Haydock Commentary Genesis 28:10-22a
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 11. Head for a pillow.  Behold the austerity of the heir of all that country!  H. — He departs from home in haste, with his staff only, that Esau might not know.  W.
• Ver. 12. A ladder and angels, &c.  This mysterious vision tended to comfort the patriarch, with the assurance that God would now take him under his more particular protection, when he was destitute of human aid.  H. — The angels ascending, foretold that his journey would be prosperous; and descending, shewed that he would return with safety.  M. — Or rather, the ladder represented the incarnation of Jesus Christ, born of so many patriarchs from Adam, who was created by God, to the blessed Virgin.  He is the way by which we must ascend, by observing the truth, till we obtain life eternal.  H. — Mercy and truth are like the two sides; the virtues of Christ are signified by the steps.  Angels descend to announces this joyful mystery to men; they ascend to convey the prayers and ardent desires of the ancient saints, to hasten their redemption.  M. — Our Saviour seems to allude to this passage.  Jo. i. 51. xiv. 6.  The Providence of God, watching over all things, appears here very conspicuous.
• Ver. 13. Thy father, or grandfather.  God joins the dead with the living, to shew that all live to him, and that the soul is immortal.  H.
• Ver. 16. Knew it not. Jacob was not ignorant that God fills all places.  But he thought that he would not manifest himself thus in a land given to idolatry.  He begins to suspect that the place had been formerly consecrated to the worship of the true God, (C.) as it probably had by Abraham, who dwelt near Bethel, (C. xii. 8, ) and built an altar on Mount Moria, xxii. 14.  Interpreters are not agreed on which of these places Jacob spent the night.  S. Aug. q. 83, supposes it was on the latter, “where God appointed the tabernacle to remain.”  The Chaldee paraphrases it very well in this sense, v. 17, “How terrible is this place! It is not an ordinary place, but a place beloved by God, and over against this place is the door of heaven.”  H.
• Ver. 18. A title. That is a pillar or monument.  Ch. — Or an altar, consecrated by that rite to the service of the true God.  This he did without any superstition; as the Catholic Church still pours oil or chrism upon her altars, in imitation of Jacob.  Raban. Instit. i. 45.  If pagans did the like, this is no reason why we should condemn the practice.  They were blamable for designing thus to worship false gods.  Clem. strom. vii.  Apul. Florid. i. &c.  If Protestants pull down altars, under the plea of their being superstitious, we cannot but pity their ignorance or malice. W.
• Ver. 19. Bethel. This name signifies the house of God.  Ch. — Bethel was the name which Jacob gave to the place; and the town, which was built after his return, was called by the same name.  Hence those famous animated stones or idols, received their title (Bethules, Eus. præp. i. 10.) being consecrated to Saturn, the Sun, &c.  Till the days of Mahomet, the Arabs adored a rough stone, taken from the temple of Mecca, which they pretended was built by Abraham.  Chardin. — Luza, so called from the number of nut or almond trees.  Here the golden calf was afterwards set up, on the confines of the tribes of Benjamin and of Ephraim, (C.) the southern limits of the kingdom of Jeroboam.  H.
• Ver. 20. A vow; not simply that he would acknowledge one God, but that he would testify his peculiar veneration for him, by erecting an altar, at his return, and by giving voluntarily the tithes of all he had.  W.  C. xxxv. 7.  How he gave these tithes, we do not read.  Perhaps he might herby engage his posterity to give them under the law of Moses.  C.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 9:18-26

• Ver. 18. A certain ruler.[4]  Lit. a prince of a synagogue. He is called Jairus.  Mark v.  Luke viii. — My daughter is just now dead: or, as the other evangelists express it, is at the point of death; and her father having left her dying, he might think and say she was already dead.  Wi. — In effect, news was shortly after brought him that she was dead.  It is thus that some commentators explain the apparent difference found in Mark v. 22, and Luke viii. 41. — But come, lay thy hand, &c.  Let us admire and imitate the humility and kindness of our Redeemer; no sooner had he heard the request of the ruler, but rising up, he followed him.  Though, says S. Chrysostom, he saw his earthly disposition, requesting him to come and lay his hand upon her.
• Ver. 20. And behold a woman. This woman, according to Eusebius, came from Cæsarea Philippi, who, in honour of her miraculous cure, afterwards erected a brazen monument, descriptive of this event, before the door of her house in Cæsarea Philippi.  Euseb.
• Ver. 22. EpistrafeiV kai idwn, turning about and seeing, as if he were ignorant, and wished to see who it was that had touched him, as the other evangelists relate.  In S. Mark (v. 29,) we see she was cured on touching the garment; and Jesus only confirms the cure by what he says in verse 34. — But Jesus turning about. Our divine Saviour, fearing lest he might alarm the woman by his words, says immediately to her, Take courage; and at the same time calls her his daughter, because her faith had rendered her such.  S. Chrysos.
• Ver. 23. And when Jesus . . . saw the minstrels. It was a custom among the Jews at funerals to hire persons to make some doleful music, and great lamentations.  Wi. — Ovid also mentions the lugubrious music attendant on funerals.
• Cantabat mœstis tibia funeribus.  4. Fast.
• Ver. 24. The girl is not dead. Christ, by saving so, insinuated that she was not dead in such a manner as they imagined; that is, so as to remain dead, but presently to return to life, as if she had been only asleep.  Wi. — But sleepeth. In the xi. chapter of S. John, Christ again calls death a sleep.  Our friend Lazarus sleepeth. Thus he teaches us to be no longer in dread of death, since it was reduced to the condition of a sleep.  If you believe this, why do you vainly weep?  why do you afflict yourself?  this the Gentiles do, who have not faith.  Your child is asleep, not dead, is gone to a place of rest, not to destruction.  Therefore the royal prophet says, “Turn, O my soul, into thy rest, for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.”  Psalm cxiv.  If then it is a kindness, why should you weep?  what else could you do at the death of an adversary, an enemy, the object of your greatest aversion?  S. Chrysos. hom. xxxii. — Christ here asserts that the girl is only asleep, to shew that it was easy for him to raise her from death as from sleep.  Theophylactus.
• Ver. 25. He took her by the hand, and as in his hands is the key both of life and death, (Apoc. i. 18,) so he commanded the soul to return and the girl to arise.  A. — and when the crowd, &c.  That is, if after a sinful and worldly life we wish to rise again, and be cleansed from the miserable condition of moral sin, denoted by the girl who was dead, we must cast out of our minds the great multitude of worldly concerns; for whilst these have possession, the mind is unable to recollect itself and apply seriously to consideration.  S. Gregory.