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The Fourth Sunday of Lent

March 11, 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

Our Rescuing God

The passage from 2 Chronicles gives us the very last page of the Hebrew Bible, in the order of the Jewish canon. It is the work of a person we call the Chronicler, who writes a good hundred years after the return from the Babylonian exile.

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, SJ

Being Saved by God’s Kind Favor

Our sacraments, our rituals, our prayers and our hopes mean little if Christ has not saved us, if Jesus has not given us the promise of abundant life, if he has not, indeed, suffered and died for us.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

The World’s Darkness

To his credit, Nicodemus seems to have pondered and perhaps even pursued his interest in Jesus further, no doubt in discussion with others in typically Mediterranean, group-centered fashion.

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Thoughts from the Early Church

John Chrysostom

It is this death for people like ourselves that Paul constantly regards as the sign of Christ’s love for us. He passes over everything else that Christ did for our advantage and consolation and dwells incessantly on the cross.

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

Being in heaven with Christ is not a matter for self-congratulation or for a false sense of security, so the author inserts the parenthesis: “by grace you have been saved.”

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