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Study of the Readings

Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ed.

• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Reading
Catholic Culture
• Jesus’ Gift of Self

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The Word Embodied

John Kavanaugh, S. J.

Moses instructed his people to remember how their God worked great wonders for them, brought them together, led them through the desert, fed them with a bread from heaven...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

...Contempo-rary understanding of the Eucharist frequently clouds our vision of the challenges faced by our first-century ancestors in the faith and the strategies they employed to meet these challenges...

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Thoughts from the
Early Church


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

Commentary:
Augustine

You see on God’s altar bread and a cup. That is what the evidence of your eyes tells you, but your faith requires you to believe that the bread is the body of Christ, the cup the blood of Christ...


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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.


...Most often in the Gospel narratives, Jesus showed up at or was invited to, the times or conditions of peoples’ lives in which they would rather not be....

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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