Men, join us this coming Tuesday to pray the Rosary and for a bible study afterwards at SDVP.

We will be reading the upcoming Gospel for Sunday, October 27th: MARK 10 (46-52) and reading Father Lapide’s Gospel commentary from the Saints (both texts are copied below). Bring a light snack to share, there will be coffee, tea or hot chocolate available.

The Gospel Text for Sunday, October 27th, 2024:

St MARK 10:46-52:

  46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho, with his disciples, and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.  47 Who when he had heard, that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry out, and to say: Jesus son of David, have mercy on me.  48 And many rebuked him, that he might hold his peace; but he cried a great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me.  49 And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort: arise, he calleth thee.  50 Who casting off his garment leaped up, and came to him.

 51 And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see. 52 And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he saw, and followed him in the way.

The Great Commentary Of Father Lapide

(Abridged to include Sunday’s verses):

Ver. 46. Bartimæus, the son of Timæus. This blind man, then, was called by a proper name, Bartimæus, i.e., the son of Timæus, as Bartholomew is the same as son of Ptolemy. The same was called also by the same name as his father Timæus. Timæus was the name of that Pythagorean philosopher who wrote the life of Pythagoras.

Moreover, Bartimæus is interpreted by Pagnini in three ways (in Nom. Hebraicis). The first is from S. Jerome, to the effect that Bartimæus means the blind son, or the son of blindness. He says that it is a Syriac name, but corrupted from Barsemia, or Barsamæus. Bar is son, semaia, blindness.

The second opinion is, that it means the son of honour; as if compounded of the Syriac bar, a son, and the Gr. τιμή, honour.

The third is, that it means the son of the admirer, or admirable corn, or admirable purity. For this was what the blind man received from Christ. For being illuminated in body, he was far more illuminated in his soul. For bar means meal, or wheat, or purity, as well as son. Tamah is to admire.

And followed Him in the way. Moraliter: Says the Gloss, Let us consider the way in which He goeth, and follow Him by humility and labours. The way is that of which He saith, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” This is “the narrow way,” which leads to the heights of Jerusalem and Bethany, to the Mount of Olives, which is the mount of light and consolation; yea, which leads to Zion and the heavenly Jerusalem. The blind man therefore sees and follows, for he who rightly understands the life of Christ ought to follow and imitate it by his works.∎

NOTES:

Gospel text copied from from Online Dhouay-Rheims https://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=48&ch=10&l=30-#x and EWTN Daily Mass Calendar: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/daily-readings/2024-10-27

Document author: Jose Bregel, Monday, October 21st, 2024 | All errors, text omissions or grammatical or typographic errors are my own.