Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
It is a funny thing to sit in the pew on Sundays when a whole list of sins and sinners is enumerated from the Gospels or the various Epistles.
John J. Pilch
The Pharisees hoped to shame Jesus, but Jesus shames them instead.
The Pharisees' desire to justify these traditions kept them from submitting to God’s law that taught them about the coming of Christ.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
What Jesus says about a pure heart being more important than clean hands parallels exactly what he says in the Sermon on the Mount about attending to one’s lust and anger.
Reginald H. Fuller
Fulfilling the legal code to the letter in a changed situation can
result precisely in disobeying it.