Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Hankering after the “Old Faith”
The love revealed in Jesus, simple as it sounds, is terribly arduous. That is why the history of our faith so often reads like a history of our resistance to love.
John J. Pilch
Jesus urges the disciples to “keep [ = do] my command-ments” and “do what I command you.” A survey of any of the Gospels reveals that he repeats this exhortation rather frequently.
Who can in adversity be sure of many of his friends when our Savior himself was, at his capture, left alone and forsaken by his?
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The whole Christian mission is a response to divine initiative. It is a movement responding to God's first move.
Reginald H. Fuller
God called Jesus at his baptism and called him to a saving
mission.