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Looking More Closely at the Word
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time C
July 14, 2019
Working with the Word

Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al


• Words,     Phrases
To the point
• First Two     Readings
• Experience

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Let the Scriptures Speak

Dennis
Hamm, SJ

Who Is Your Samaritan?

A teacher of Torah, bent on testing Jesus, asks the Big Question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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The Word Engaged

John Kavanaugh, SJ

Freedom on the Journey

It was such as I who passed the broken man on the road to Jericho. And I have done the same.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

The Good Samaritan

The thrust of the parable is not lost on the lawyer. Now Jesus thrusts the final shaming question: “Which of the three became a neighbor to the victim?”

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Thoughts from the Early Church

Origen of Alexandria

After bringing in the man half dead the Samaritan did not immediately depart, but remained and dressed the man’s wounds by night.

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

Redemption is not redemption out of the world, but the restoration of the created world when it had fallen into sin.

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