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Monday, March 30, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
Baptism as Re-Creation: Laetare Sunday
The drama increases as we
progress toward Easter. This Sunday’s
readings are united by the themes of anointing and light.
The First Reading (1 Sam
16:1-13) recounts Samuel’s anointing of David as King over Israel. Samuel journeys to Jesse of Bethlehem, and
scrutinizes each of his sons in search of God’s chosen king, but to no
avail. Finally, the youngest of the
eight, David, is called in from shepherding the sheep. This at last is the future king:
Reading 1 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7,
10-13a:
Monday, March 16, 2020
The Spit of Jesus and the Man Born Blind (The Mass Readings Explained)
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Wooing Israel: Readings for 3rd Sunday of Lent
You know we are “picking up steam” in the season of
Lent when the Lectionary starts turning to the long readings from the Gospel of
John (John 4, 9, 11). The Church turns to these texts from John at this point in the
liturgical calendar, because John is, in so many ways, a mystagogical document, a gospel intended to takes us deeper into
the mysteries, that is, the sacraments.
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
The Start of the New Exodus: 2nd Sunday of Lent
This Sunday we are only
eleven days into Lent, still very early along on our Lenten pilgrimage. The readings share the theme of beginning the
journey of faith, even while giving us a glimpse of our final destination.
In all three years of the lectionary
cycle (A, B, C), the readings for the Second Sunday of Lent always pair a key
pericope from the Abraham narrative (Gen 12-22) with an account of the
Transfiguration from one of the Synoptic Gospels.
Monday, February 24, 2020
What Are the Biblical Roots of Ash Wednesday?
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God bless.
God bless.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Ash Wednesday
(Posts on 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time and 1st Sunday of Lent are below)
Happy Lent, everyone! It’s Ash Wednesday!
Happy Lent, everyone! It’s Ash Wednesday!
Holy Mother Church calls us to begin the Great
Fast in preparation for Easter by proclaiming the following Scriptures:
Jesus the New Adam: The First Sunday of Lent A
The readings for today’s Mass
are exceptionally rich and could be the subject of several week’s worth of
lectures, so we will have to limit ourselves today to a few central themes.
The First Reading is the
account of the Fall, in which Eve, followed by Adam, gives in to temptation by
eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Reading
1 Gn
2:7-9; 3:1-7
The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and so man became a living being.
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and so man became a living being.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Turn the Other Cheek: The 7th Sunday of OT
1. Our Readings start off showing the continuity between Jesus’ teachings and the Old Testament, quoting a section from Leviticus (19:1-2, 17-18):
Monday, February 17, 2020
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 4 (The Mass Readings Explained)
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Saturday, February 15, 2020
Holiness: Readings for 6th Sunday of OT
The
“Hippie” Jesus is one of the common misunderstandings of Christ that are
circulating in popular culture. People
think of Jesus as a laid back guru who traveled around Israel in this
Volkswagen Vanagon, accompanied by twelve dudes in tie-died T-shirts. Jesus taught that all we need is Love, and
not to be so uptight, like all those rule-bound priests and scribes.
Monday, February 10, 2020
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 (The Mass Readings Explained)
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Friday, February 07, 2020
Light, Salt, Temple: Readings for the 5th Sunday in OT
Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel |
The theme of light continues
in this Sunday’s Readings, in which Jesus calls the people of God, the Church,
to be a kind of lighthouse or beacon calling the whole world to the safe harbor
with God.
Monday, February 03, 2020
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Feast of the Presentation
We
have a truly unusual situation this Sunday.
Under normal circumstances, it would be the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary
Time, but it just so happens that this year, the Feast of the Presentation
(pegged to Feb. 2) falls on the Sunday and “outranks” the regular Lord’s Day
obligation. The result is that many
persons who do not regularly attend daily mass will have the rare experience of
celebrating the full liturgy for the Feast of the Presentation.
Monday, January 27, 2020
The Presentation of the Lord (The Mass Readings Explained)
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Friday, January 24, 2020
The First "Biblemas" Ever! Readings for the Feast of the Word of God
For the first time in the
history of the Church, we are celebrating the Feast of the Word of God this
Sunday, the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time.
By his beautiful motu proprio “Aperuit Illis”, Pope Francis
established a new feast day to be observed every year on the Third Sunday of
Ordinary Time, celebrating the Word of God.
It is the Mass of the Bible, or “Biblemas.” Get your Biblemas cards now! They are going fast! Put up your Biblemas tree!
The Third Sunday of OT is a
wise choice for the observance of this feast day, because it is on the Third
Sunday that we begin the ad seriatim or sequential reading of the Gospel
of the year that will continue until the end of November.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Jesus' Public Ministry Begins (The Mass Readings Explained)
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