Daily Bible Readings Monday November 16 2009 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

November 16 2009 Monday Thirty Third Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – St. Margaret of Scotland

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1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63
Douay-Rheims Challoner

And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth. And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us. And the word seemed good in their eyes. And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens. And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations:

Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing. Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her excellency was turned into mourning. And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law.

And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice. Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land: And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives. On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the altar of the idol that was over against the altar of God. Now the women that circumcised their children were slain according to the commandment of king Antiochus.

Responsorial Psalm 118:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158 (Ps 119 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

The proud did iniquitously altogether:
but I declined not from thy law.
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me:
but I have not forgotten thy law.
Redeem me from the calumnies of men:
that I may keep thy commandments.
They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity;
but they are gone far off from thy law.
Salvation is far from sinners;
because they have not sought thy justifications.
I beheld the transgressors, and pined away;
because they kept not thy word.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 18:35-43
Haydock New Testament

Now it came to pass, that when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the way-side, begging. And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this meant. And they told him, that Jesus, of Nazareth, was passing by. And he cried out, saying:

Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

And they that went before, rebuked him, that he should hold his peace.  But he cried out much more:

Son of David, have mercy on me.

And Jesus standing, commanded him to be brought to him.  And when he was come near, he asked him, Saying:

What wilt thou that I do to thee?

But he said:

Lord, that I may see.

And Jesus said to him:

Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made thee whole.

And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God.  And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

Haydock Commentary 1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 10. Death, twelve years being expired, when all the posterity of Alexander were dead.  His generals gradually destroyed each other, and four took the diadem at the same time: Ptolemy, in Egypt; Seleucus, in Syria; Cassander, in Macedonia; and Lysimachus, in Thrace.  Just. xiii. and xv.  C. — Those who choose to read in order, may, after the preface 2 B. ii. 20. read the above, then 2 B. iii. 1.  W.
• Ver. 11. Antiochus the illustrious; Epiphanes, the younger son of Antiochus the great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew Demetrius, son of his elder brother, Seleucus Philopater.  Ch. — Epiphanes means “renowed.”  W. — He took this title, particularly after the Samaritans had offered it to him.  Jos. xii.  Vaillant. A. 145. — His medals have always God prefixed, “the god appearing;” as he came opportunity, like a god, to defend the kingdom against the Egyptians, after he had been fourteen years a hostage at Rome.  C. — Nothing could be more abject than his character.  S. Jer. in Dan. viii. and ix.  Athen. v. 4. and x. 12. — Greeks, counting not from the beginning of the reign of Alexander, but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator.  Ch. — The era of the Seleucides began in spring or autumn, A. 3692, B.C. 312, though the Chaldees and Ptolemy date from the following spring.  C. — The Grecian monarchy had then stood twenty years.  Eus.  W.
• Ver. 12. Men. Jason attempted to supplant Onias III. and introduced pagan customs, when he was dead.  Menelaus treated him in like manner.  Being cited to pay what he had promised, he left Lysimachus in his place, who was slain in the temple, which he was robbing.  2 Mac. iv. — Us. Thus the Jews complained in the days of Jeremias, (xliv. 18.) and the Christian religion was blamed for all the miseries which fell upon the Roman empire.  C. — S. Aug. proves in his City of God, that this accusation was false.  H.
• Ver. 15. Exercise, to wrestle (C.) and teach.  Lyran.
• Ver. 43. Be one. This reason herself teaches.  But the king wished to establish a false religion, or rather he desired to root out all religion, and to shew his authority.  H. — Demere superstitionem & mores Græcorum dare adnixus. Tacit. v. — He was not content with plunder, unless he ruined souls.  W.
• Ver. 57. Fifteenth. In all other places the 25th, whence this may be incorrect, (C.) or the altar was now set up, (H.) though sacrifices were not yet offered.  C. — Idol. The statue of Jupiter Olympius, (Ch.) as Daniel (ix.) had foretold, as a figure of what antichrist would do, (Mat. xxiv.  W.) as well as the Romans, when they took Jerusalem.
• Ver. 62. Over-against, or (H.) “upon,” epi.  The Greek altars were of a smaller size.

Haydock Commentary Luke 18:35-43

• Ver. 35. This blind man is, according to some interpreters, different from the other two whom Jesus Christ cured as he was going out of Jericho.  V. — See Matt. xx. 29. and Mark x. 46. et dein.