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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.

...The celebration of diversity sounds throughout our communities these days, from Boston and San Diego to Beirut and Santiago, But what keeps us together?...

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

...Contem-porary 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.


...We see the breaking of the bread, the gestures, we hear the words, but instead of knowing we believe...

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

An analysis of the readings for this Sunday.

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