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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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The Word Encountered
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Christian Faith and Politics
If we think that our faith really makes no difference in the “real” world, it goes flat. It has nothing special to offer the world. Having lost its special taste, it never changes culture. It just mimics it.
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Historical Cultural Context John J. Pilch
Salt and Fire
[There is a] Mediterranean cultural image Jesus has in mind when he says: “You, my disciples; are the salt, that is, catalyst for the earth-oven.” (In the Aramaic and Hebrew languages which Jesus spoke, one and the same word means “earth” and “clay-oven.”) more …
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Thoughts from the Early Church
John Chrysostom
By the perfection of your lives attract to yourselves the grace of the Spirit so that the Lord of all creation may be glorified, and so that we may all be found worthy of the kingdom of heaven by grace.
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Scripture In Depth Reginald H. Fuller
The Sermon on the Mount does not say that the disciples are to become the salt, or that they are to become like a city on a hill or make themselves a light amid the darkness of the world. They are all those things, and that because Jesus has called them and they have responded more …
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