Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
A teacher of Torah, bent on testing Jesus, asks the Big Question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
John Kavanaugh, SJ
It was such as I who passed the broken man on the road to Jericho. And I have done the same.
John J. Pilch
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?”
After bringing in the man half dead the Samaritan did not immediately depart, but remained and dressed the man’s wounds by night.
Reginald H. Fuller
Redemption is not redemption out of the world, but the restoration of the created world when it had fallen into sin.