Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John J. Pilch
By demonstrating how to be catalysts for the fire in the earth-oven and summoning us to be and do the same, Jesus challenges American believers.
Good, interior, spiritual peace consists in the repose of the mind in God, and in a rightly ordered harmony.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The author of Hebrews presents Jesus himself as a model for Christian perseverance through tough challenges “for the sake of the joy that lay before him.”
Reginald H. Fuller
The race we have to run is “set before us,” that is, we have been entered for it (cf. the New English Bible) at our baptism.