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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.

What is the “Great Abyss” between Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham and Dives in the bed of flames? What events caused the chasm?

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Jesus lived in a cultural world where people believed that all the goods of life were limited in quantity and already distributed. They lived by the norm “there’s no more where this came from”...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


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

Commentary:
John Chrysostom

It is worthwhile inquiring why the rich man saw Lazarus in Abraham’s arms, and not in the company of some other righteous person...


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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


...It seems the truth again that where there is a lack of care and compassion, or where there are addictions or indulgence, others suffer...

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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