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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.

Some prominent sages have written that the root desires of human existence are the pride of power, the accumulation of money, and the experience of pleasure...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

...Burying valuable objects was a common practice in antiquity...
Forgetting about the treasure or dying...are possible explanations for the finding of treasure by those who don’t own it...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


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

Commentary: Origen

...If you ask what is to be sought, and what will be found by everyone who seeks for it, I say with all confidence: pearls...

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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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