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Looking More Closely at the Word
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time

August 19, 2018
Working with the Word

Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al


• Words,     Phrases
To the point
• First Two     Readings
• Experience

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Let the Scriptures Speak

Dennis
Hamm, SJ

Wisdom's Banquet

Answering the invitation of Woman-Wisdom leads to life; the seduction of Woman-Folly gets you locked into a tomb.

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, SJ

Nurtured

What is real fulfillment? More basically, what is real? These questions are the hidden agenda in Jesus’ encounter with the crowds in the fourth Gospel.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Eucharist

  “Eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood” became a common way for Christians around the time of John’s Gospel to describe participation in the Eucharist.

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Thoughts from the Early Church

Theophylact

Those who eat and drink the Lord’s flesh and blood live in the Lord and the Lord lives in them. A marvelous and inexplicable union occurs by which God is in us, and we are in God.

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

Here at last we reach the definitely Eucharistic part of the discourse on the bread of life. We move from bread as such to the flesh and blood of the Son of man.

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