Daily Bible Readings Tuesday November 3 2009 31st Week in Ordinary Time

November 3 2009 Tuesday Thirty First Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Martin de Porres

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Romans 12:5-16ab
Haydock NT

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one, members one of another. And having gifts different, according to the grace that is given us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith, Or ministry, in ministering: or he that teacheth, in doctrine, He that exhorteth in exhorting; he that giveth with simplicity; he that ruleth with solicitude, he that sheweth mercy with cheerfulness.

Love without dissimulation.  Hating that which is evil, adhering to that which is good: Loving one another with brotherly love; in honour preventing one another: In solicitude not slothful: in spirit fervent: serving the Lord: Rejoicing in hope: patient in tribulation: instant in prayer: Communicating to the necessities of the saints: pursuing hospitality.

Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep: Being of one mind one towards another: not high-minded: but condescending to the humble.

Responsorial Psalm 130:1-3 (Ps 131 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty.
Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.
If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul:
As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.
Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 14:15-24
Haydock New Testament

When one of them that sat at table with him, had heard these things, he said to him:

Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

But he said to him:

A certain man made a great supper, and invited many. And he sent his servant, at supper-time, to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready. And they began all at once to make excuse.  The first said to him:

I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, have me excused.

And another said:

I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, have me excused.

And another said:

I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

And the servant returning, told these things to his lord.  Then the master of the house being angry, said to his servant:

Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame.

And the servant said:

Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

And the lord said to the servant:

Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. But I say to you, that none of those men that were invited, shall taste of my supper.

Haydock Commentary Romans 12:5-16ab
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 16. Condescending to the humble, in the spirit of charity and sweetness.  See Luke ii. 48.  Wi.
• Ver. 18. If it be possible, . . . have peace with all. That is, if it can be without prejudice to truth or justice, &c.  And even when others wrong you, seek not to revenge yourselves, but leave your cause to God.  Do good offices even to those that do evil to you.  Wi.
• Ver. 19. Give place to wrath. That we do, says S. Chrys. when we leave all to God, and endeavour to return good for evil.  Wi.
• Ver. 20. Thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. This figurative way of speaking is differently expounded.  Some say, inasmuch as by this means thou shalt make him liable to greater punishments from God.  Others, as S. Jer. and S. Aug. by coals of fire, understand kindnesses and benefits, which shall touch the heart, and inflame the affections even of thy enemies, which shall make them sorry for what they have done, and become thy friends.  Wi.
• Ver. 21. This is the apostle’s conclusion of the foregoing instructions.  Be not overcome by the malice of thy enemy, so as to wish to revenge thyself, without leaving all to the just judgment of God; but overcome his malice by thy kindness.  This is complied with, when upon occasion of injuries received we always make a return of kindness, and in proportion as the malice of our enemies increases, our spirit of benevolence should also increase.  Estius.

Haydock Commentary Luke 14:15-24

• Ver. 16. By this man we are to understand Christ Jesus, the great mediator between God and man.  He sent his servants, at supper-time, to say to them that were invited, that they should come; i.e. he sent his apostles to call the people of Israel, who had been invited to his supper on almost innumerable occasions: but they not only refused the invitation, but also murdered the Lord who had invited them.  We may remark, that the three different excuses exactly agree with what S. John says: All that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life.  The one says, I have married a wife, by which may be understood the concupiscence of the flesh; another says, I have bought five yoke of oxen, by which is denoted the concupiscence of the eyes; and the pride of life is signified by the purchase of the farm, which the third alleges in his justification.  S. Aug. de verb. Dei.
• Ver. 23. Compel them to come in. This is almost the only expression in the New Testament, which can give to the intolerant a plea for persecution.  The spirit of the gospel is the spirit of mildness, and the compulsion which it authorizes to bring infidels or heretics into the Church, is such as we use towards our friends, when we press them to accept of our hospitality.  The great pope, S. Gregory, forbade the Jews to be persecuted in Rome, who refused to receive the faith of Christ. “That is a new and unheard of kind of preaching,” says he, “which demands assent by stripes.”  A.