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 244 total views 13th Sunday (B) Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 The Book of Wisdom speaks of human imperishability. As the author of life, it is only with life that God is concerned (v13). Death here is understood as a total and final separation from God. Physical death does not figure prominently in the author’s thought. God is

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 478 total views 12th Sunday (B) Job 38: 1, 8 – 11 The book of Job is considered a “wisdom in revolt”, that is, questioning the conventional, even, biblical wisdom that man suffers/is punished because of his sins. He has protested innocence in the face of the intense suffering he has endured. He has even questioned

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 1,061 total views Ez 17:22-24 The reading is part of an allegory (beginning from vv3-21) through which Ezekiel describes the political situation of Israel in exile and its consequent restoration. It speaks of an eagle planting a shoot that becomes a verdant vine (Israel) and another eagle (King Nebuchadnezzar) transplanting the verdant vine to a foreign

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 1,018 total views Gen 3-15 The snake represents the forces of evil while the man and the woman are individuals representative of all humanity. The antipathy between the serpent and humans is to be perpetual (v15). But the human’s superior physical position in striking the snake’s head is understood as humanity’s eventual triumph over evil in

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 1,012 total views The word Eucharist is the direct translation of the noun ‘eucharistia’ ( εὐχαριστία ) and is primarily an expression of gratitude to God (especially in the letters of St. Paul, e.g. 2Cor 4:15, 9:11,12), and in particular as thanksgiving to God in worship, (cf 1Cor 14:16; Rev 4:9,7:2). But what could allude to

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 1,520 total views The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity celebrates the mystery of mysteries, “the central mystery of our faith and life” (CCC, 234): God is one God in Three Divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. “The belief in one God in three divine persons…is unique to the Christian faith but

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 1,736 total views The celebration of Pentecost Sunday is associated with the giving of the Holy Spirit by Jesus to the apostles on the evening of his resurrection (John 20:19-23). The Pentecost is one of the three great annual festivals which the Jews are obliged to observe as prescribed in Ex 23:14-17, (cf also 34:18-34; 2

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 1,733 total views Talking about the Ascension, it is only Luke who “literally” described it or represented it as an established “historical” fact observed by sensible experience, (cf. Lk 24:46-53; Acts 1:1-11). And restraint characterizes these two accounts where only the departure is observed There is no specific moment of the Ascension in Matthew, Mark (short

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 2,358 total views As the Easter Season celebration continues, the gospel (John 15:9-17) keeps up unraveling the fruits of the salvific action of God in Christ’s Paschal mystery. As Jesus shares his knowledge of the Father with his disciples (14:20), he shares his love as well (v9) and points out that it is the observance of

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 2,920 total views The Fourth Sunday of Easter is called Good Shepherd Sunday. In describing himself as the Good Shepherd, (cf s1S#28, Shepherd, 4/25/21), Jesus repeated in today’s gospel (John 10:11-18) the verb “lay down” (his life for his sheep) 5 times (vv 11, 15, 17, 18 x2). tithēmi (τίθημι), is a common verb meaning “put,”

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 3,220 total views In Luke’s summary of the risen Christ’s first appearance to his disciples (24:35-48) aside from its apologetic slant (proving that He is the same Jesus and not a ghost, and asking for something to eat, vv38-43) he concludes with the apostles’ post-Easter mandate to preach repentance underlining it’s redemptive value (v47; cf first

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 3,208 total views Today’s gospel (John 20:19-31) recounts the first appearance of the risen Christ where all eleven apostles are present and serve as the setting for Jesus to commission or send them, (cf s1S#39 Send, 7/11/21). The sudden appearance of the risen Jesus (confrontation), startles the disciples (reaction), requiring that Jesus set them at ease:

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 4,955 total views From the gospel today comes the most quoted and even memorized verse: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (3:16). The verb “agapaō” ( άγαπάω ), occurred more than a hundred times in

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 4,765 total views All four gospels has the account of the purification of the temple by Jesus. In the synoptics, it precedes Jesus’ arrest at the end of his public life, coinciding with his only visit to Jerusalem during his ministry: Matthew (21:12-13) and Luke (19:45-47) on the day Jesus entered Jerusalem; Mark (11:15-17), on the