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- Mark on Jacob prepares for his meeting with Esau – Held on Sunday, October 27, 2013
- Dick on Covenant between Jacob and Laban – Held on Sunday, October 13, 2013
- Mark on Covenant between Jacob and Laban – Held on Sunday, October 13, 2013
- Daniel Russo on Isaac, Abimelech, and Rebekah – Held on Sunday, March 10, 2013
- Daniel Russo on The Birth of Esau and Jacob – Held on Sunday, February 24, 2013
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jn. 6: 41 – 51 The Bread of Life Discourse [Continuing] Background Fr. Ray Brown’s masterful Anchor Bible study of The Gospel According to John points out that there are two themes in the Bread of Life Discourse; one – … Continue reading
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jn. 6: 24 – 35 The Bread of Life Discourse Background As I mentioned last week, the church shifted our focus from Mark’s Gospel to John’s Gospel and it continues that Johannine focus through the end of August on the … Continue reading
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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jn. 6: 1 – 15 Multiplication of the Loaves Background Whenever I review the literature on the Sunday passage, I am torn, on the one hand, to provide the overwhelming evidence of how the tradition developed over time, and what … Continue reading
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk: 6:30 – 34. The Return of the Twelve & Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand Our Questions I’ve tweaked the first question to ask not only who are the characters in this passage but what is the … Continue reading
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Religion and Culture – The Bishops’ call to defend “our most cherished freedom.”
To get a handle on the relationship between religion and culture, I would like to point out who we are as Christians, state what I take religion and culture to be, express the relationship between these two terms, take a … Continue reading
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Background – The Rejection at Nazareth Once again the notes provided for Mk. 6:1 – 6 are helpful, http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/6 As should be clear, the church during this year is asking us to focus on the Gospel according to Mark, the … Continue reading
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Background The notes provided for Mk. 5:21 – 43 are particularly helpful, http://www.usccb.org/bible/scripture.cfm?bk=Mark&ch=5&v=49005021 As the notes state this passage tells us of two stories; the first is a story of the raising to life of the daughter of Jairus which … Continue reading
An Improbable Message on The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
The Reading – Lk. 1:57 – 66, 80 When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and … Continue reading
Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
Background Please keep in mind that history for the Hebrews is not concerned with who does what to whom; in other words, this passage is not about history in any modern sense of that word. Rather the Hebrews understood history … Continue reading
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
In Mk: 4:26-34 we hear / read Seed Grows of Itself. He said, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God;* it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night … Continue reading