Scripture

April 11, 2018

April 22: Fourth Sunday of Easter/Good Shepherd Sunday

The first reading for this Sunday from the Acts of the Apostles still glows with the impact of the first healing undertaken by the apostles after the resurrection of Jesus.

April 11, 2018

April 15: Third Sunday of Easter

“All roads lead to Rome” is a medieval proverb meant to convey that ultimately everything converges and ends up in the same spot. A somewhat different perspective recurs in the Gospel of Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles — readings that fill much of our Easter season, as is true of this Sunday. Luke’s proverb, if you like, goes in a different direction. Everything “begins with Jerusalem” and spreads out to “all nations” — even to the “ends of the earth.”

April 4, 2018

April 8: Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)

The Scripture readings for the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost portray the impact of the resurrection of Jesus.

March 21, 2018

April 1: Easter, the Resurrection of the Lord

On Aug. 21, 2017, most of the United States experienced a rare total eclipse of the sun. We were warned not to try to view the eclipse directly but only through heavily filtered lenses to avoid damaging our eyes by the blinding light of the sun.

March 21, 2018

March 25: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

We enter the most sacred week of the church’s liturgical year. The opening reading is the account of Jesus’ dramatic entry into Jerusalem, with him approaching from the eastern village of Bethany on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, the place where he stayed during the great Passover festival.

March 7, 2018

March 18: Fifth Sunday of Lent

There is a sober tone to the Scripture readings for this Sunday, as we move deeper into the season of Lent. A dominant image is that of the “heart.”

March 7, 2018

March 11: Fourth Sunday of Lent

Sometimes the biblical saga of ages past has eerie connections with the present day Middle East, the arena in which most of the biblical drama took place. An event dominating the readings for this fourth Sunday of Lent is the Babylonian exile that took place after the defeat of Judea in 597 B.C.

February 21, 2018

March 4: Third Sunday of Lent

The readings for the Sundays of Lent are especially rich, drawing on some of the most fundamental passages of the Bible. For example, this Sunday begins with the proclamation of the Ten Commandments.

February 21, 2018

Feb. 25: Second Sunday of Lent

In the readings for today we encounter two of the most dramatic passages in the entire Bible: the sacrifice of Isaac from the Book of Genesis and the Transfiguration of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.

February 7, 2018

Feb. 18: 1st Sunday in Lent

As Lent begins, this Sunday’s reading takes us to the opening scenes of Mark’s Gospel. After Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River where he is suffused by the Spirit and his Father’s voice declares him to be “my beloved Son,” Jesus is “driven” out into the desert by that same Spirit. There Jesus will confront Satan, the very embodiment of evil.
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