Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
If there is no supernatural order, the Sermon on the Mount makes no sense. But neither do our liturgies, their holy acts and words.
John J. Pilch
God is the ultimate arbiter of true honor, and the honor God bestows is unsurpassable.
When Paul said, We possess nothing, and yet we have everything, what did he mean by “everything”?
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Jesus first congratulates those who are poor, hungry, weeping and excluded, and he issues woes to those “who are rich, full, laughing, and well thought of.”
Reginald H. Fuller
The poem differs from the usual prophecies of Jeremiah because of its wisdom character and its corresponding lack of direct connection with Israel’s salvation history.