Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Persons who are born deaf rarely learn to speak, and then only with great difficulty. It is not hard to catch Mark's application of this experience to the life of faith.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Concern for the poor and the marginal is not a pet theory fabricated by liberation theologians or some left-wing ideology. It is as old as Isaiah.
John J. Pilch
In antiquity, the hands were the customary vehicle by which a healer transmitted therapeutic power to the client. At other times, the healer’s garments transmitted healing power without the healer’s awareness or will.
As fire can give out nothing but heat and is incapable of giving out cold; and as the sun gives out nothing but light and is incapable of giving out darkness, so God is incapable of doing anything but good.
Reginald H. Fuller
Because the early Christians, for the most part, belonged to the powerless classes of the Roman Empire, the New Testament shows very little concern for social justice as compared with the Old Testament prophets.