Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John F. 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
Jesus declares that the hour has come. Will he shirk it? Will he ask the Father to “save me from this hour?”
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
As we noted before, the Old Testament readings in Lent point up
the highlights of Israel’s salvation history.