Daily Bible Readings Thursday July 16 2009 15th Week in Ordinary Time

July 16 2009 Thursday Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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Exodus 3:13-20
Douay-Rheims Challoner

Moses said to God:

Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?

God said to Moses:

I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.

And God said again to Moses:

Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt. And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey. And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God. But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand. For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.

Responsorial Psalm 104:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-27 (Ps 105 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name:
declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
Remember his marvellous works which he hath done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever:
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:
And he increased his people exceedingly:
and strengthened them over their enemies.
He turned their heart to hate his people:
and to deal deceitfully with his servants.
He sent Moses his servant:
Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
He gave them power to shew them signs,
and his wonders in the land of Cham.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 11:28-30
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

Haydock Commentary Exodus 3:13-20
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 13. His name. Many of them had embraced idolatry, and had forgotten God.  Moses very properly begs to have his extraordinary mission sanctioned by miracles, without which he might well have been rejected, as heretics are.  H.
• Ver. 14. I am who am. That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source of all other beings.  Ch. — Heb. agrees with the Vulg. though it seems to read aeje, “I shall be,” &c.  A. Lapide, &c. — No name can fully explain the divine perfections.  As God is alone, he stands in need of no distinctive appellation, as Lactantius, and even the pagans have confessed.  Orig. c. Cels. vi.  C. — All other beings are just nothing, compared with God.  He alone is self-existent and infinitely perfect.  W.
• Ver. 15. Memorial. By this title he is still known among Christians.  M. — Hitherto God had generally been called Elohim.  But now he assumes the incommunicable name (T.) consisting of four vowels, Jod, He, Vau, He, Jehovah, the essence, or OWN, a word which the Greek Scriptures leave undeclined, to denote the unchangeable nature of the Deity.  The word has been pronounced Jehovah by the moderns, and by the ancients Jevo, Jao, Jave, &c.  H.
• Ver. 16. Ancients. Perhaps there might be 72 magistrates already among the Hebrews, as there were afterwards in the desert (Grotius); or more probably they were only the chiefs of families, and leading men among their brethren, though without any public authority derived from the king of Egypt. — Visiting. So Joseph had foretold, Gen. l. 23.  God examines before he punishes, Gen. xviii. 21.  C.
• Ver. 18. Called. Sam. and Sept. “hath been invoked upon us.”  Heb. “hath occurred, or appeared to us.”  H. — Journey, to Sinai, which was about this distance, to go straight.  But the Israelites spent 48 days in arriving at it by a circuitous road.  C. — In Heb. they ask, “Let us go, we beseech thee.”  They do not tell a lie, but withhold the truth.  M.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 11:28-30

• Ver. 28. All you that, &c.  That is, you who are wearied with the heavy load of your sins, and the grievous yoke of the old law.  M.
• Ver. 29. Take up my yoke, &c.  Fear not the yoke of Christ, for it is a yoke of the greatest sweetness.  Be not disheartened when he mentions a burden, because it is a burden exceeding light.  If then our Saviour says, that the way of virtue is exceeding narrow, and replete with difficulties and dangers, we must call to mind that it is so to the slothful only.  Perform therefore with alacrity what is required, and then will all things be easy; the burden will be light, and the yoke sweet.  S. Chrysos. hom. xxxix.
• Ver. 30. For my yoke is sweet, &c.  For though, in regard of our weak nature, it be a very heavy yoke, yet the grace of God renders it easy and light, because our Lord himself helps us to bear it, according to that of the prophet Osee, (C. xi, v. 4) I will be unto them as he that takes the yoke from off their head. S. Bernard says, that our Saviour sweetens by the spiritual unction of his grace, all the crosses, penances, and mortifications of religious souls.  S. Austin owns that before he knew the power of grace, he could never comprehend what charity was, nor believe that any one was able to practice it; but the grace of God renders all things easy.  Rodriguez.  On Mortification.  C. xix.