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The Word
Engaged
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Blessed Assurance
We hoard a stash of securities. Maybe
they will be our insurance policy, our steadfast guards and providers. Worse,
even ordinary journeys stir fears of insecurity. Any long walk, to say nothing
of the walk of a lifetime, calls for baggage.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Luke's Jesus & the Samaritans
In the peasant world of the Middle East there are no free gifts. Every gift comes
with a string attached. A common proverb says: “Don’t thank me: you will
repay me.”
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Augustine of Hippo
The reapers were sent out, wielding the Gospel as their sickle.
They were to greet no one on the road, which meant they were to have no aim or
activity apart from proclaiming the Good News in a spirit of brotherly love.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
The Christian sees a personal religious
experience
as part of the experience of the entire body,
while the experience
of the entire body is reflected
in the experience
of the individual.
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