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The
Word Engaged
John Kavanaugh, S. J.
One tradition in the Hebrew scriptures, especially in the wisdom literature, frequently highlights the irony of inverted expectations...
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Historical
Cultural Context
John J. Pilch
In Jesus’ Med-iterranean world meals were very powerful means of communica-tion. Above all, meals affirmed and gave legitimacy to a person’s role and status in a given community...
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Thoughts
from the
Early Church
Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.
Commentary:
Bruno of Segni
Invited to a wedding feast, the Lord looked round and noticed how all were choosing the first and most honorable places, each person wanting to take precedence over the others and to be raised above them...
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Preparing
for Sunday
Larry
Gillick, S. J.
“Excuse me” has several meanings in polite company. It is used when bumping into somebody accidentally. It is employed to interrupt somebody who is speaking and the listeners wishes to interject a thought or two...
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