Daily Bible Readings Monday November 9 2009 Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome

November 9 2009 Monday Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Saint of the Day – Dedication of St. John Lateran

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Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Douay-Rheims Challoner

And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar. And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.

And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come. And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

Responsorial Psalm 45:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 (Ps 46 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Our God is our refuge and strength:
a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.
Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled;
and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.
The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful:
the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.
God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved:
God will help it in the morning early.
The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.
Come and behold ye the works of the Lord:
what wonders he hath done upon earth

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17
Haydock NT

You are God’s building. According to the grace of God, that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon.  But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For no one can lay another foundation, but that which is laid: which is Christ Jesus.

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? But if any man violate the temple of God: him shall God destroy.  For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 2:13-22
Haydock New Testament

And the Pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem: And he found in the temple those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the changers of mony sitting. And when he had made a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and he poured out the changers’ money, and the tables he overthrew. And he said to them that sold doves:

Take these things hence, make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

And his disciples remembered that it was written:

The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

The Jews therefore answered, and said to him:

What sign dost thou shew to us, seeing thou dost these things?

Jesus answered, and said to them:

Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

The Jews then said:

Six and forty years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

But he spoke of the temple of his body. When, therefore, he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.

Haydock Commentary Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Waters. These waters are not to be understood literally, (for there were none such that flowed from the temple) but mystically of the baptism of Christ, and of his doctrine and his grace; the trees that grow on the banks are Christian virtues; the fishes are Christians, that spiritually live in and by these holy waters; the fishermen are the apostles, and apostolic preachers; the fenny places, where there is no health, are such as by being out of the Church are separated from these waters of life.  Ch. — It is not probable that real water or fishes were found, v. 9.  But this must be explained of the Church and of baptism, in a higher and more proper sense.  W. — Joel, (iii. 18.) before the captivity, and Zacharias, (xiv. 8.) after that event, speak of fountains as still to appear, and of course not in either temple, though Pilate made aqueducts for the purpose, (Jos. Bel. ii. 13.) which Tacitus, (An. v.) Maundrel, (p. 148.) and others mention.  But the prophets allude not to them, but to Christ, the fountain of water springing up unto life eternal.  John iv. 14. and vii. 38.  C. — Villalpand understands it of waters brought into the temple to wash the victims; but it seems to refer more to the grace and doctrine of Christ.  M.
• Ver. 2. East. This gate was shut, and therefore he went out at the north gate.  C.
• Ver. 8. The. Heb. “the east country,” (Prot.  H.) or “the frontiers (Gelilah) eastward,” by which some improperly suppose that one rivulet went to the sea of Galilee. — And shall. Heb. “the sea of the going out,” where the Jordan River empties itself into the Dead Sea; or, the second rivulet ran into the Mediterranean.  Zac. xiv. 8.  But this passage relates to the Dead Sea alone, (v. 18.) and Gelilah is a place near it, where the Israelites erected an altar of union.  Jos. xxii. 10.  C. — Healed. No fish can live in the sea of Sodom.  Solin xxxviii. — Yet, let the place be ever so noxious, this water shall cure it; (see 4 K. ii. 19.  C.) which must be taken in a mystical sense.  H.
• Ver. 12. First-fruits, or most excellent.  H. — S. John saw such W. a tree of life. Apoc. xxii.  H. — The doctrine of the gospel, and the study of the sacred books, have the most salutary effects; while the very leaves, or the example of the saints, heal the soul.  No more shall the deceitful fruits near Sodom be seen (C.) beautiful, but full of nothing but ashes.  Tacit.  An. v. — Where Christ instructs, a torrent of grace and glory is presently formed.  Like the mustard seed growing into a large tree, in which the birds rest, its origin in mean; yet its progress is grand and astonishing.

Haydock Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17

• Ver. 9. We are God’s coadjutors, labouring in his service, as he hath employed us. — You are God’s husbandry, the soil, where virtues are to be planted.  You are God’s building, the edifice, the house, or even the temple of God; we are employed as builders under God.  Wi.
• Ver. 10. I have laid the foundation well, as a wise architect, not of myself, but according to the grace of God, and the gifts he bestowed upon me: and another, or several others, build upon it, continue the building. — But let every man take heed how he buildeth, and that it be always upon the same foundation, which is Christ Jesus, his faith, and his doctrine.  Wi.
• Ver. 16-17. Know you not. After the apostle had described the builders who are employed in the spiritual edifice, he then proceeds to speak of the duties of those who are the living temples of Christ.  As for you, may brethren, who are the temples of God, preserve yourselves in purity of faith, and innocence of morals.  Fly from those false apostles who seek your ruin, and remain steadfast in that faith which you have received from us; (Calmet) that is, the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic faith.  What a happiness for the faithful minister to assist in erecting and ornamenting the living temples of God; but what punishment must await the unfaithful minister, who by his own neglect and bad example, helps to ruin and destroy the temples God himself had entrusted to his care!  A. — The Spirit of God dwelleth in you, having received the grace of God at your conversion: you are the holy temple of God: But if any one violate, or profane the temple of God, either by false doctrine, or by any grievous offence, he destroys the spiritual edifice, that was built in his soul upon the faith and grace of God.  He cannot be said to be built any longer upon the same foundation: and therefore God will destroy such persons: they shall not be saved even by fire, or temporal punishments, but shall be excluded for ever from heaven, and condemned to eternal punishments.  Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 2:13-22

• Ver. 15. He drove them all out of the temple. According to S. Chrys. (hom. lxvii. in Matt.) this casting out was different from that which is there related, c. xxi. v. 12.  Wi. — How could the Son of the carpenter, Joseph, whose divinity was yet unknown to the people, succeed in expelling so great a multitude from the temple!  There was undoubtedly something divine in his whole conduct and appearance, which deterred all from making resistance.  The evangelist seems to insinuate this by putting these words: “The house of my Father,” into our Saviour’s mouth, which was making himself immediately the Son of God.  This made Origen consider this miracle, in overcoming the unruly dispositions of so many, as a superior manifestation of power to what he had shewn in changing the nature of water at Cana.  A. — Jesus Christ here shews the respect he requires should be shewn to the temple of God; and S. Paul, speaking of the profaners of God’s Church, saith: If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy. 1 Cor. iii. 17.  Which in a spiritual sense may be understood of the soul of man, which is the living temple of the living God.  A.
• Ver. 20. Six and forty years, &c.  This many understand of the time the second temple was building, from the edict of Cyrus to the sixth year of Darius Hystaspes.  Others, of the enlarging and beautifying the temple, which was begun by Herod the great, forty-six years before the Jews spoke this to our Saviour.  Wi. — Interpreters are much embarrassed by these words; as the building of the temple, which then existed, had been finished in much less than 46 years.  Herod renewed the temple from the foundations, and spent in that work only nine years and a half.  It was begun 46 years before the first Pasch at which our Saviour appeared.  Usher, ad an. Mundi 3987. — But this prince, according to Josephus, continued to make new building and embellishments to the very time in which the Jews uttered these words: it is now 46 years, &c.

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