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Study of the Readings

Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ed.

• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Reading
Experience

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The Word Embodied

John Kavanaugh, S. J.

Creation has its cost. To be creature, not creator, is to be incomplete, unfinished...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Parables paint culture-based scenarios. Yet every one in the ancient world knew that the parable teller intended the scenario to refer to something more or something other than was described...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.

Commentary: Gregory the Great

Dearly beloved, the reading from the holy gospel about the sower requires no explanation, but only a word of warning....

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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


The readings for our liturgy of this week invite us to a sense of fertility and fruitfulness...

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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