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The Word
Engaged
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Justice Done in Love
A staggering thought, however, is that such love should mark the way we live as social beings. Christians must love others as God has loved us. And this, it seems, is a command of screaming impracticality.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Jesus the Prophet
Jesus stirs controversy at the very least because he does not seem to be carrying on Joseph's trade. He is doing something different. This is a breach of family honor not readily countenanced in the Mediterranean world.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Cyril of Alexandria
Now by the poor we may understand those who were then deprived of all spiritual blessings and who lived in the world without hope and without God, as scripture says.
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Preparing for
Sunday
Larry
Gillick, S. J.
Faith is an insult to the scientifically data-based spirit of our day. Hope is an insult to the desperately-communicating tell-me-who I- am cell-phoney world. Love is an insult to our strip-me and leave-me half dead, society.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
Jeremiah’s mission is not merely to Israel but to “the nations.” Since
the time of Amos, the prophets had a strong sense of God as the sovereign Lord
of all history, not just that of his people.
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