Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Human encounter with the transcendent God has always met with resistance. But the idea of a God wholly independent of our sway is especially repulsive to contemporary taste.
John J. Pilch
Physical anthropologists estimate that the average Galilean male of the Roman-Byzantine period stood about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed an average of 140 pounds.
Christ says: Give me this fisherman, this man without education or experience, this man to whom no senator would deign to speak, not even if he were buying fish.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The prophet comes to know God, not just as a local Near-Eastern divinity but as the God of all, the one whose glory is shown in all creation.
Reginald H. Fuller
The vision of God’s holiness leads Isaiah to confess his sense of utter unworthiness. His call thus comes to him as a sheer miracle of grace.