Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
[We are told] that if a newborn child does not experience loving human touch frequently, the baby’s health will begin to fail, and complete deprivation of touch can be fatal for an infant.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
The Book of Wisdom claims that God fashioned all things so that they might have imperishable being. But we perish. All of us.
John J. Pilch
Mark tells us that until the moment she encountered Jesus, the hemorrhaging woman put all her trust and resources in professional physicians.
When Christ reached the house and saw the mourners lamenting as though the girl were dead, he declared that she was not dead but sleeping, in order to move their unbelieving minds to faith.
Reginald H. Fuller
In that case, biological death has more than a merely physical meaning; it is the ultimate sign of human beings’ alienation from God. It is the “sacrament of sin.”