Daily Bible Readings Saturday October 17 2009 Memorial of St Ignatius Of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

October 17 2009 Saturday Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Saint of the Day – St. Ignatius of Antioch

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Romans 4:13, 16-18
Haydock New Testament

For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the justice of faith. Therefore it is of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. Who, against hope, believed in hope, that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Responsorial Psalm 104:6-9, 42-43 (Ps 105 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
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:
Because he remembered his holy word,
which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
And he brought forth his people with joy,
and his chosen with gladness.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 12:8-12
Haydock New Testament

And I say to you:

Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the Angels of God. But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the Angels of God. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, and to magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say. For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought say.

Haydock Commentary Romans 4:13, 16-18
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 13. Of the world, &c.  By the world, some understand the land of Chanaan, which is sometimes meant by the whole earth, particularly in the times of David and Solomon, when they ruled over the neighbouring nations.  But others think that the apostle alludes to the passage of Genesis, where the Almighty promises that in his (Abraham’s) seed, all the nations of the earth should be blessed; which promise extends much beyond the narrow limits of Chanaan.  In fine, it may be understood in a spiritual sense, of his dignity of father of all the faithful; which makes him, in a manner, master of the whole world, since his spiritual children, spread through the whole world, have the universe for their inheritance.  Calmet. — Postula a me, et dabo tibi Gentes hæreditatem tuam et possessionem tuam terminos terræ.  Ps. ii. 8.  A. — It was by Christ that Abraham was to be heir of the world, in as much as the spiritual kingdom of Christ should be spread over all the world.  And this of one who was of the seed of David, being heir of the world, was not by the law, or by virtue of the law, which was not given to Moses till 400 years after.  Wi.
• Ver. 16. There are two kinds of children of Abraham, to whom alone these promises are made; the one is according to the flesh, the other according to the spirit.  The former of these had no more part in the promises made to him and his seed than the Gentiles, unless they imitated the fidelity and obedience of their father.  Calmet. — It is in this sense of spiritual father, that the priest at the altar, speaking in the name of the faithful, calls Abraham our patriarch.  Estius.
• Ver. 18. Who, against hope, believed in hope, or with hope.  That is, Abraham, against all probability of human hopes, still hoped in God, says S. Chrys. that he should have a son by Sara: and in this, he was not weak in faith. Therefore it, that is, is great faith, was imputed to him unto justice: and also our faith shall be imputed to us unto justice, or make us truly just, by believing in Christ, &c.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary Luke 4:8-12

• Ver. 10. We have the devil here again citing Scripture, (Ps. xc. v. 11.) [Read what is given on this subject in note on v. 6, c. iv. of S. Matthew's gospel] which shews how very dangerous a thing it is to put the Scripture, in the first instance, indiscriminately into every, even the most illiterate person’s hands, without any previous disposition of the mind and heart, by study and prayer.  How much more satisfactory must it be to be guided by the Church of God, which Christ has promised to secure against all error, and which he commands all to obey!  How much more rational to begin with distributing elementary catechisms, approved by the Catholic Church as conformable to the word of God, and then only opening to them the sacred mystic book, when their minds and hearts are better prepared to avail themselves of the inestimable treasure, and of justly appreciating and exploring the golden lore.  If humility be a virtue that renders us most pleasing to God, it is a virtue particularly necessary for the proper understanding of Holy Writ. This will teach us to submit (whenever the Scripture is either silent or obscure in points of faith) our own private and unassisted judgment to the judgment and comments of the Church.  This was the sentiment of a great philosopher of this nation, who, when charged with scepticism and a love of novelty by his contemporaries, replied: “However fanciful I may be esteemed in matters of philosophy, in religious concerns I like to go the beaten road.  Where the Scripture is silent, the Church is my text.  Where that speaks, it is but the comment; and I never refer any thing to the arbitration of my own judgment, but in the silence of them both.”