Daily Bible Readings Wednesday Nov 11 2009 Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours

November 11 2009 Wednesday Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, bishop
Saint of the Day – St. Martin of Tours

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Wisdom 6:1-11
Douay-Rheims Challoner

Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart: For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him. For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise: For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.

For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in. For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. For the Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.

Therefore he that speaketh unjust things, cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judgment pass him by. For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the ungodly, and the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the chastising of his iniquities. For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid. Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.

Responsorial Psalm 81:3-4, 6-7 (PS 82 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Judge for the needy and fatherless:
do justice to the humble and the poor.
Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy
out of the hand of the sinner.
I have said: You are gods
and all of you the sons of the most High.
But you like men shall die:
and shall fall like one of the princes.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 17:11-19
Haydock New Testament

And it came to pass, as he was going to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men, that were lepers, who stood afar off: And they lifted up their voice, saying:

Jesus, master, have mercy on us.

And when he saw, he said:

Go, shew yourselves to the priests.

And it came to pass, that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was cleansed, went back, with a loud voice, glorifying God. And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks: and this man was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering, said,

Were there not ten made clean? and where are the nine? There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger.

And he said to him:

Arise, go thy way: for thy faith hath made thee whole.

Haydock Commentary Wisdom 6:1-11
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Wisdom, &c.  This is not in Greek, and seems out of its place, being taken from Prov. xvi. 32. or Eccles. ix. 16.  C. — The connection with the preceding is observable in the next verse.  H.
• Ver. 2. Kings. The author puts these words in the mouth of Solomon to give them greater weight, (C.) or rather (H.) as the inspiration of God is the most unexceptionable authority, and it would be of no service to introduce a false personage speaking; these nine first chapters were written by Solomon, though the original has since disappeared.  This has been the case with respect to the original text of Tobias and Judith, (Houbigant) as well as to that of the many canticles and parables which Solomon wrote.  H.
• Ver. 4. Power. All power is from God, and to be respected, even though the magistrate should sometimes abuse his authority.  W.  Rom. xiii. 1. — They must render an account to the common master.  2 Par. xix. 6.
• Ver. 6. Rule. How severely did God chastise Moses, David, and Ezechias.
• Ver. 7. Little, and ignorant. Those in power ought to know, and to perform their duty.
• Ver. 8. Equally. In proportion to their exigencies, or he punishes all as they deserve.  It is not clear that he speaks of grace, as the Pelagians would assert, (C.) abusing this passage.  See S. Aug. ep. cvi. or clxxxvii.
• Ver. 9. Mighty. This cannot be too often inculcated, (v. 6.) lest the great should forget God and themselves.  C. — Each must render an account of his charge, and be punished accordingly if he offend.  S. Greg. hom. ix.  Evang.  W.
• Ver. 10. Kings. Sept. “tyrants.”  But this title was nor formerly odious.
• Ver. 11. Just. Sept. “holy.”  The Jewish judges were generally priests. — Answer. The sovereign judge, to whom Job and David confidently appeal.

Haydock Commentary Luke 17:11-19

• Ver. 14. To the priests. Jesus sends them to the priests, to convince the latter of the reality of the cures which he wrought, and oblige them by that to acknowledge him for their Messias; 2ndly, that the lepers might enjoy the fruit of their cure, by returning to the society of their fellow men, after they had been declared clean, and satisfied all the demands of the law; for there were may ceremonies previous to be gone through.  Calmet. — And lastly, to shew that in the new law, such as are defiled with the leprosy of sin, should apply to the priests.  Hence, says S. Austin, let no one despise God’s ordinance, saying that it is sufficient to confess to God alone.  Lib. de visit. infirm.
• Ver. 19. Thy faith hath made thee whole. Were not the others also made whole?  They were cleansed indeed from their leprosy, but it no where appears that they were justified in their souls like this Samaritan, of whom it said, thy faith hath made thee whole; whereas it was said of the others, that they were made clean, viz. of their leprosy in their body, though not justified in their soul: this the Samaritan alone seems to have obtained.  Maldonatus.