Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Abraham himself was a Gentile, called out of Mesopotamia to be, with Sarah's help, the father of a people through whom Yahweh's covenant to the nations would be renewed.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
First the Savor, Then the Sending
Sometimes the years seem to hurtle by. There are those days when I, my parents’ child, wonder: how do I let it all get away so fast? How can I hold on to it better? How can I see it better?
John J. Pilch
How can the evangelist give an honorable public appearance to the potentially embarrassing circumstances of Jesus’ conception?
We are not left with a mere report of bygone events, to be received
in faith and remembered with veneration. God’s bounty toward
us has been multiplied, so that even in our own times we daily
experience the grace which belonged to those first beginnings.
Reginald H. Fuller
The Epiphany of the Lord is the paradigm for all Christian family life, for the Christian family is the divinely provided context in which the Christian child may grow to physical, mental, and spiritual maturity.