Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
I recall reading a newspaper account about a group of people in Biloxi who disregarded calls to evacuate and chose instead to “ride out” the storm by having a party in their hotel room. The wind and waters came and took them under.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Life, from its beginning, bears its gloomy portents. They need not presage the end of the world or even the fall of our mightiest temples. But any child can suspect that all might easily be lost.
John J. Pilch
At every mention of the “rich” in Luke’s Gospel it is advisable to cross out that word and pencil in “greedy.” That is what irks Luke and Luke’s Jesus and, indeed, all the people of Luke’s Gospel.
Daily the world is oppressed by new and growing evils. You see how few of you remain from a countless people; yet daily afflictions still oppress us, sudden disasters crush us, new and unforeseen misfortunes afflict us.
Reginald H. Fuller
Tradition is not something left behind by a Jesus now dead, but a process inaugurated by Jesus in his earthly life and constantly reenacted as a living word.