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Study of the Readings

Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ed.

• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Reading
Our Experience

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The Word Engaged

John Kavanaugh, S. J.

The first directed retreat I ever gave was a harrowing experience. An older Jesuit had invited me to he on a team that was to direct thirty monks at a secluded monastery...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

A rabbinic tradition cautions: “Let not a person associate with sinners even to bring them near to the Torah.” Feeding sinners is praiseworthy; eating with them is forbidden...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


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

Commentary:
Peter Chrysologus

Finding something we have lost gives us a fresh joy, and we are happier at having found the lost object than we should have been had we never lost it...


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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


...I am attracted to my spinning all kinds of new thoughts about this old and familiar parable of the bad son and good father and jealous older brother...

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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