Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
It takes the full length of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke to gradually reveal that Jesus is Messiah and Son of God; and the Acts of the Apostles makes it clear that the disciples really didn't “get it.”
John Kavanaugh, SJ
The body is a big problem for us, whether we want to admit it or not. Even the late, great psychologist Abraham Maslow, no churchy or Pauline preacher to say the least, warned us of the body’s degradation in our time.
John J. Pilch
John the evangelist has compacted the development of discipleship into several striking scenes. In actuality, the process is longer, just as the Synoptic record indicates.
Andrew was the first to become an apostle. It was he who opened the
gates of Christ’s teaching. He surpassed the hopes of all by
being the first to embrace the one awaited by all.
Reginald H. Fuller
In the Fourth Gospel, to “stay” means more than just to lodge in a house overnight; it is the same word as is used for “abide” in those Christological passages that speak of the Son’s abiding in the Father. This is what the two disciples really come and “see.”