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Looking More Closely at the Word
Twenty-Third Sunday
of Ordinary Time

September 9, 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

The Mute Will Sing

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.

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, SJ

Disturbing Words

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.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Deaf and Mute

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.

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Thoughts from the Early Church

Lawrence of Brindisi

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.

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Scripture In Depth

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.

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