Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
In the Our Father, we pray that God “forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us”—a scary proposal if you spend a minute thinking about it.
John J. Pilch
The “voice from heaven” is a culturally specific element in the Mediterranean-alternate-state-of-consciousness. All alternate states must be interpreted according to the traditional beliefs of their respective culture.
The human race may be compared to spikes of wheat in a field,
rising, as it were, from the earth, awaiting their full growth and
development, and then in time being cut down by the reaper, which is
death.
Reginald H. Fuller
From the time of Paul, Christians have seen the fulfillment of prophecy in the covenant that was established by the blood of Christ and that led to the outpouring of the Spirit into the hearts of believers.