Daily Bible Readings Monday Nov 2 2009 Commemoration of the Faithful Departed

November 2 2009 Monday The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
Saint of the Day – Feast of All Souls

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Wisdom 3:1-9
Douay Rheims Challoner

But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.

As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.

Responsorial Psalm 22 (Ps 23 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
He hath set me in a place of pasture.
He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:
He hath converted my soul.
He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name’s sake.
For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evils, for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
Thou hast anointed my head with oil;
and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!
And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life.
And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Romans 5:5-11
Haydock New Testament

And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured out into our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us. For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would venture to die. But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time, Christ died for us: much more, therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 6:3-9
Haydock NT

Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death? For we are buried together with him by baptism unto death: that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, in like manner we shall be also of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, and that we may serve sin no longer.

For he that is dead, is justified from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ: Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 6:37-40
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out: Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. Now this is the will of the Father, that sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should not lose thereof, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of my Father, that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth in him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Haydock Commentary Wisdom 3:1-9
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Of death, is not in Sept.  During life the just are protected by God, (Lu. xii. 7.) and still more in death.  This passage is very applicable to martyrs.  C. — Temporal death is to the just the road to happiness, where they shall not incur damnation, or the torment of death. Though the martyrs seem to be utterly destroyed, they pass to joys eternal and unspeakable.  W.
• Ver. 2. Die. In this the wicked are not under a mistake; but they err when they suppose that the just shall be no more.  If the hopes of the pious where confined to this world, they would be the most miserable of all.  1 Cor. xv. 19.  C.
• Ver. 6. Holocaust. The sufferings (M.) which they have voluntarily endured, cause them to be pleasing to God.  H.  Zac. xiii. 9. — Time of judgment, or of death.  C. — Sept. “at the time of their visitation, they shall shine, and,” &c.  v. 7.  Matt. xiii. 43.  H.  Zac. xii. 6.
• Ver. 8. Judge. All the just shall approve of God’s condemning the wicked.  W. — They shall be invested with power, (Apoc. ii. 26.  Matthew xix. 28.) which, like that of Christ, will be of a spiritual nature, (H.) and will appear most terrible at the last day.  Matt. xxviii. 18.  Apoc. xix. 6.  C.
• Ver. 9. Elect. Sept. add, “and a visitation for his saints.”  Charity secures both faith and hope; which, without it, are unavailing to happiness.  H. — Those who have the virtue of hope, will await the completion of God’s promises.

Haydock Commentary Romans 5:5-11

• Ver. 5. God having prevented us with his gifts when we did not at all deserve them, having showered upon us the blessings of faith, charity, patience, and fidelity, we cannot but have the greatest confidence that after this pledge and assurance of his good will towards us, he well finish the work he has begun, and bring us to his heavenly kingdom.  Calmet. — Not only the gift of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit himself, is given to us, who resides in our soul as in his own temple, who sanctifies it, and makes it partaker of his divine love.  Menochius.
• Ver. 6. &c. Why did Christ . . . die for the ungodly? He shews Christ’s great mercy and love for mankind, that he would die for us, who were sinners, and consequently his enemies.  How few are there that will lay down their lives for a just man, or for a just cause? — Perhaps for a good man. That is, for another, who has been good to him, his friend or benefactor, we may find one that will expose or lay down his life.  But Christ, in due time, appointed by the divine decree, died for sinners, for us all.  And if we have been reconciled to God, and justified by his death; now being made the children of God, and his friends, we may with greater confidence hope to be saved.  Wi. — The text of the Greek is as follows: For when we were weak, he gave us our Lord Jesus Christ to redeem us; shewing how much God loved us, to perform such stupendous acts of love in our behalf.  But the reading of the Vulgate is conformable to S. Irenæus, (lib. iii. c. 18.) and to the commentaries of this epistle, which have been published under the name of S. Ambrose, and S. Jerom.  Calmet. — S. Augustin says, those whom the apostle first calls weak, he afterwards calls impious, hos dixit infirmos quos impios.  Ep. lix. ad Paulinum. — S. Jerom, and other fathers and commentators, explain the Greek text of this verse as follows: Scarcely would any one die for a just cause; for who would ever think of dying in defence of injustice?  Others explain it thus: Scarcely a single man would die for one that was wicked and unjust: for we can hardly find a person ready to lay down his life for a good man; his friend and benefactor, who has been kind to him.  Calmet.

Haydock Commentary Romans 6:3-9

• Ver. 3. &c. We . . . are baptized in his death. Greek, unto his death. The apostle here alludes to the manner of administering the sacrament of baptism, which was then done by immersion or by plunging the person baptized under the water, in which he finds a resemblance of Christ’s death and burial under ground, and of his resurrection to an immortal life.  So must we after baptism rise to lead a quite different life: having been also, when we were baptized and made Christians, planted as branches ingrafted in Christ, let us endeavour to bring forth the fruits of a virtuous life.  Wi. — Old man . . . body of sin. Our corrupt state, subject to sin and concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man. And the vices and sins which then ruled in us, are named the body of sin. Ch. — The old and sinful man we must look upon as crucified with him, and the body of sin, or our sinful body, destroyed.  We must look upon ourselves as dead to sin, and that we must sin no more, as Christ being once risen, dies no more.  Wi.
• Ver. 7. He that is dead is justified from sin.[1]  Some translate, is freed from sin: this is true; but perhaps it is better to retain the word justified, which is observed to be a law-word used in courts of justice, where to be justified is to be acquitted, so that a man cannot be questioned again on that account; and so are sinners, when their sins are forgiven.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 6:37-40

• Ver. 38. Christ does not say this as if he did not whatever he wished; but he recommends to us his humility.  He who comes to me shall not be cast forth, but shall be incorporated with me, because he shall not do his own will, but that of my Father.  And therefore he shall not be cast forth; because when he was proud, he did his own will, and was rejected.  None but the humble can come to me.  S. Hilary and S. Austin. — An humble and sincere faith is essentially necessary to believe the great mysteries of the Catholic faith, by means of which we come to God and believe in God.  A.