Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
By receiving Communion we profess that Christ’s saving of us is our sustenance. We could not live or survive without it.
John J. Pilch
In the vine passage, John reminds his readers that it is more important to remain Jesus’ friend, and to remain, through that, God’s friend, than to preserve one’s life.
Although Christ could not be the vine if he were not human, he could not offer such a grace to his branches if he were not at the same time divine.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Saul, this arch-persecutor of the young Church becomes one of its star promoters—a startling phenomenon.
Reginald H. Fuller
Paul was anxious to join up with the apostles, who in turn were
reluctant to receive the ex-persecutor. Once introduced, however,
Paul “went in and out with them,” a phrase that in Luke means
intimate companionship.