Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
How can persons get put to death and still not have a hair on their head be harmed? Only if a caring God sustains them on both sides of death.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Jesus himself, in Luke’s Gospel, saw terrible times ahead, a day coming when not one stone of our human temple will rest on another.
John J. Pilch
In the Mediterranean world only God knows the distant future and the distant past. Prophets know the distant future only if God has revealed it to them.
It is peace in time of war, calm in rough waters, safety amidst treachery and danger.
Reginald H. Fuller
The First Reading has a timeless quality about it—the warning that the day of the Lord is coming and that it will spell doom for all the arrogant and evildoers.