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Let the Scriptures Speak
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Women Who Loved Too Much?
Does that mean that we are not meant to be prudent and “love ourselves” so that we can better love our neighbor? Does that mean that we are not to live a balanced life, take care of our health, labor for just wages for working women, and put a little aside for retirement? I think not.
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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
SJ
Whole-heartedness of the Saints
There are times when we are down, and we think we have nothing left to give.
Little remains in the barrel of our lives. Then, for some reason, we still manage
to give more out of the nothing we have left. And grace is born again.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
Scribes and Widows
Jesus publicly criticizes their behavior as a ceaseless grasping
for honor. The Talmud notes that when two people meet in the
marketplace, the one inferior in knowledge of the Law should
greet the other first. Since no one knew the Law as well as
the scribes, they sought out and basked in this recognition.
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Thoughts
from the
Early Church
Paulinus of Nola
Let us then invest with the Lord what he has given us, for
we have nothing that does not come from him: we are dependent
upon him for our very existence. And we ourselves particularly,
who have a special and a greater debt, since God not only created
us but purchased us as well.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
The denunciation of the scribes forms
the conclusion to the series of Jerusalem conflict stories, whose function is
to show the widening gulf between Jesus and the Jerusalem authorities, and so
to prepare the way for the Sanhedrin’s decision to get rid of Jesus.
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