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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.

As if particularly sensitive to the demands of Christian community life, the readings from the Lectionary’s Cycle A this month provide contrasting sets of virtues and vices that foster and destroy relationships...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Our ancestors in the faith and Mediterranean culture in general are prone to conflict...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


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

Commentary: John Chrysostom

...You will be doing everything for the glory of God if, when you leave this place, you make yourselves responsible for saving a brother or sister...

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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


...Living the Eucharist is one of those not easy “main things,” but gathering together with other strugglers can provide a sense of proportion or resizing...

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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