Daily Mass Readings, 5-30-02

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May 30, 2002
Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Thursday Week 25 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel

Reading I
1 Pt 2:2-5, 9-12

Beloved:
Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk
so that through it you may grow into salvation,
for you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,
let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, a people of his own,
so that you may announce the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Once you were no people
but now you are God's people;
you had not received mercy
but now you have received mercy.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners
to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.
Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles,
so that if they speak of you as evildoers,
they may observe your good works
and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Responsorial Psalm
100:2, 3, 4, 5

R. (2c) Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands;
serve the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful song.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Know that the Lord is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him;
bless his name.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
The Lord is good:
his kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.

Gospel
Mk 10:46-52

As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd,
Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus,
sat by the roadside begging.
On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out and say,
"Jesus, son of David, have pity on me."
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent.
But he kept calling out all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me."
Jesus stopped and said, "Call him."
So they called the blind man, saying to him,
"Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you."
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, "What do you want me to do for you?"
The blind man replied to him, "Master, I want to see."
Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you."
Immediately he received his sight
and followed him on the way.

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Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,

let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
A definite call to holiness for a holy priesthood.

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Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you."
Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.

Bartimaeus asked for physical healing, but he received much more. Christ tells him, "Your faith has saved you."

One of my favorite stories in the Bible.

[Salvation]

The Lord is good:
his kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations

How does this affect you today?

[Domestic Church]

The Lord is good: his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations

"How does this affect you today?"

Hope springs eternal!

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Thank you for alerting me to these readings. I'm hanging on by the skin of my teeth. Today's gospel is especially piquant for someone as stiff-necked as I. My prayer life is really in shambles. The idea of asking Jesus for anything--let alone something like saving the Church in America--seems absurd.

So, again, thank you.

[Catholicguy]

Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc.

In addition ot the readings, it should come to you as good news that the ICEL is history. Their "Sacramentary" (they couldn't bring themselves to call it The Roman Missal) was rejected by the Pope and a new Committee was established called Vox Clara (Clear voice) and that committee has been charged to come up with an authentic English Translation a.s.a.p.

Ding Dong The ICEL's Dead....

[katnip]

Thank you bump!

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But then we have seek, knock and ask.

Seek first the kingdom of God;
Knock and it shall be opened upto you;
Ask and you shall receive.

I realize I am paraphrasing several Bible verses there from several locations, but you get the idea.

I used to be a very stubborn person, thinking that I had the world by the tail, and then my husband died. I learned to ask the Lord just to help me get through the next five minutes (with the five kids that were still home.)

If you click on my name you will see my story and involvement in a ministry to divorced, widowed and separated individuals.

Christ can only do so much.............Think of the different stories about how Jesus evangelized.
Nicodemus -- stick necked, but curious and sitting in a tree.
The Samaritan woman -- and outcast because she had five husbands and that was why she was going to the well in the middle of the day.
Then Bartimaeus with faith in his heart, seeing the Lordship of Jesus Christ while still being blind. Christ not only heals Bartimaeus, but tells him that his faith has saved him.

We are all different people and the Lord speaks to us in different ways, I guess is what I am trying to say.

Continue on, Christ will give you strength and wisdom to discern the way.

[Salvation]

the ICEL is history

So are you saying that I should be using another Bible? Or just that the committee formed to translate into authentic English is no more?

My Bible is a St. Joseph Standard Bible, this thread is referenced on Catholic-Pages.com by the USCCB, but I saw our priest with the Jerusalem Bible -- I think because of all the historic references it has.

What is you preference as to a translation?

[Salvation]

Another question.............Why was their translation rejected?

[Catholicguy]

Another question.............Why was their translation rejected?

I own the Douay and the Navarre Bibles. They both have excellent and orthodox notes. I have never used any other translations so I really don't know other than what I have heard.

The ICEL's translation of the Roman Missal was so damn bad that they received a severe tongue-lashing even after it was rejected. It is a withering critique and The Wanderer carried a column with lengthy quotes about the rejection.

Essentially, the ICEL has been screwing around with these translations since the 70's and it is ineluctable (my favorite word lately)they intentionaly mistranslated to fit their own "theological" prejudices. They stole our Rite and the magnificent prayers of the Roman Missal were reduced to banalities.

That isn't the job of translators. These, ahem, individuals, the ICEL, have at long last been shown the door

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I checked my Bible this morning and it has no reference to ICEL; only to Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

[Catholicguy]

If I ever run across anything translated by the ICEL, I will use it to start charcoal