February 27 2010 Saturday First Week of Lent
Saint of the Day – St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
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Deuteronomy 26:16-19
Douay-Rheims Challoner
This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey his command. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments: And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
Responsorial Psalm 118:1-2, 4-5, 7-8 (Ps 119 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.
Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,
when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.
I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 5:43-48
Haydock New Testament
You have heard that it hath been said: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy. But I say to you: Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you, That you may be the children of your Father, who is in heaven: who maketh his sun to rise upon the good and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. For if you love those that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans the same? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens the same? Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect
Haydock Commentary Deuteronomy 26:16-19
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site
- Ver. 16. This day. In this last solemn harangue of Moses, the covenant between God and his people was ratified. M.
- Ver. 19. To his own praise. Heb. Sept. &c. “higher…in praise, reputation, and glory.” H.
Haydock Commentary Matthew 5:43-48
- Ver. 43. And hate thy enemy. The words of the law (Levit. xix. 18.) are only these: thou shalt love thy friend as thyself; but by a false gloss and inference, these words, and hate thy enemy, were added by the Jewish doctors. Wi.
- Ver. 44. I come to establish the purity of the law, which they have corrupted. A.
- Ver. 46. The publicans. These were the gatherers of the public taxes: a set of men, odious and infamous among the Jews, for their extortions and injustice. Ch.
- Ver. 48. Jesus Christ here sums up his instructions by ordering us to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect; i.e. to imitate, as far as our exertions, assisted by divine grace, can reach, the divine perfection. Wi. — See here the great superiority of the new over the old law. But let no one hence take occasion to despise the old. Let him examine attentively, says S. Chrysostom, the different periods of time, and the persons to whom it was given; and he will admire the wisdom of the divine Legislator, and clearly perceive that it is one and the same Lord, and that each law was to the great advantage of mankind, and wisely adapted to the times of their promulgation. For, if among the first principles of rectitude, these sublime and eminent truths had been found, perhaps neither these, nor the less perfect rules of mortality would have been observed; whereas, by disposing of both in their proper time, the divine wisdom has employed both for the correction of the world. Hom. xviii. Seeing then that we are thus blessed as to be called, and to be the children of so excellent a Father, we should endeavour, like Him, to excel in goodness, meekness, and charity; but above all in humility, which will secure to us the merit of good works, through the infinite merits of our divine Redeemer, Master, and model, Christ Jesus the Lord. A.
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