Daily Bible Readings Friday November 13 2009 Memorial of St Francis Xavier Cabrini

November 13 2009 Friday Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
Saint of the Day – St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

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Wisdom 13:1-9
Douay-Rheims Challoner

But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen. But then again they are not to be pardoned. For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

Responsorial Psalm 18:2-5ab (Ps 19 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

The heavens shew forth the glory of God,
and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.
Day to day uttereth speech,
and night to night sheweth knowledge.
There are no speeches nor languages,
where their voices are not heard.
Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth:
and their words unto the ends of the world.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 17:26-37
Haydock New Testament

Jesus said:

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Likewise, as it was in the days of Lot: They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built: And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed. In that hour he that shall be on the house top, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.

Remember Lot’s wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it. I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

They answering, said to him:

Where, Lord?

He said to them:

Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.

Haydock Commentary Wisdom 13:1-9
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 1. Vain. Sept. “foolish by nature, who are ignorant of God.”  H. — In this and the three following chapters, the miseries of idolatry are described, to shew the value of wisdom and piety.  C. — Without the knowledge of God, all is darkness.  1 Cor. ii. 2.  S. Just. dial. — Is.  He who is, must be the most proper name of God.  Ex. iii. 14.  Philosophers could perceive that all creatures had a beginning, and that there must be some first cause or God, whom some confessed, but did not honour as they ought.  Rom. i.  W. — Could not. Inasmuch as they were vain.  H.
• Ver. 2. Fire. The chief god of the Persians. — Wind. Zephyrus, &c. — Air. Which is perhaps the wind.  Socrates was accused of adoring nothing, but heaven and the clouds, (Aristot. nub.) as the Jews were.  Nil præter nubes et Cœli numen adorant. Juv. xiv. 97. — Stars. The zodiac, or pleiads.  This species of idolatry was most ancient and general. — Water. The ocean, Neptune, &c.  The Egyptians adored water above all, as the origin of other things.  Hence they were punished first by it.  Philo, vit. Mor. 1. — Moon. These were mostly the objects of worship, under the names of Baal, Astarte, (C.) the Phœbus, or Dianæ of the Romans.  H.
• Ver. 5. Thereby. God is announced by the heavens, and by all creatures.  Ps. xviii. 1.  Rom. i. 20.  “Who can look up to heaven, and be so foolish as not to allow that there is a God?”  Cic. Harusp.

Haydock Commentary Luke 17:26-37

• Ver. 27. After having compared his second coming to lightning, in order to shew how sudden it will be, he next compares it to the days of Noe and Lot, to shew that it will come when men least expect it; when, entirely forgetting his coming, they are solely occupied in the affairs of this world, in buying and selling, &c.  He only mentions those faults which appear trivial, or rather none at all, (passing over the crimes of murder, theft, &c.) purposely to shew, that if God thus punishes merely the immoderate use of what is lawful, how will his vengeance fall upon what is in itself unlawful.  Ven. Bede.
• Ver. 31. When you see war lighted up in Judea, lose no time, but betake yourselves to flight for safety.  Indeed the Christians, forewarned by these predictions, and other prophecies of the apostles, according to Lactantius, (lib. iv. c. 21.) fled from the danger beyond the Jordan, into the states of Herod, to Pella and the neighbouring villages.  See Eusebius.  Eccles. Hist. lib. iii. c. 5.
• Ver. 32. As Lot only escaped destruction by leaving all things, and flying immediately to the mountain, whereas his wife, by shewing an affection for the things she had left, and looking back, perished; so those who, in the time of tribulation, forgetting the reward that awaits them in heaven, look back to the pleasures of this world, which the wicked enjoy, are sure to perish.  S. Ambrose. — Ta opisw epilanqanesqai, toiV de emprosqen epekteinesqai.  Philip. iii. 13.
• Ver. 34. By these different examples, Christ wishes to insinuate that good and bad men will be found in every state of life.  By those in bed, are understood the rich, by those in the mill, are understood the poor; whilst those in the field designate the pastors of his flock, who are labouring in the vineyard of the Lord.  S. Cyril and S. Amb.
• Ver. 37. To the question of his disciples in the preceding verse, our blessed Saviour only returns this enigmatical answer, which seems to mean, that where-ever there are guilty Jews, there shall their enemies pursue them and find them out, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea, Galilee, &c. every where the vengeance of the Lord shall follow them, and overtake them.  For the interpretation of other parts of this chapter, see S. Matt. c. xxiv.  Calmet. — If we observe some discrepancies between the precise words of our Lord, as given by S. Matt. and S. Luke, as in S. Matt. c. xxiv. v. 40, and in Luke xvii. 34, and alibi passim, we can reconcile those apparent variations, by supposing that our Lord, in the course of his conversation, made use of both expressions.  A.