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Suffering for Righteousness (25th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s readings Like most wisdom literature, the book of Wisdom is filled with proverbs and teachings contrasting the behaviour of the righteous with that of the unrighteous. Here, the book presents us with an...Posted: Sep-16-2024 -
The Rejected Servant (24th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings This is also one of the Old Testament readings for Palm Sunday. For my previous reflection on the same passage, see The Vindication of the Servant. This Old Testament reading is part...Posted: Sep-09-2024
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Healing and Deliverance (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings After declaring God’s judgment on Judah and the nations for their wickedness and failure to uphold justice, the book of Isaiah shifts in theme to how, despite their sins, the...Posted: Sep-04-2024
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The Wisdom of the Law (22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The book of Deuteronomy begins with a historical prologue detailing how God rescued Israel out of Egypt and guided them through the wilderness, in a manner reminiscent of ancient near eastern vassal...Posted: Aug-27-2024
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Serve the Lord (21st Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The end of the book of Joshua is a covenant renewal ceremony between God (represented by Joshua) and the people of Israel. Here, they are reminded of all the good things that...Posted: Aug-21-2024
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Wisdom’s Feast (20th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings In the book of Proverbs, Wisdom is often presented as a personification of how to live wisely in this world. She is presented as a kind sister and friend who protects us...Posted: Aug-14-2024
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On Facing Adversity (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings This Sunday’s Old Testament reading is a rather ironic follow-up to the preceding story about how Elijah overcame the prophets of Ba'al, and showed that Yahweh alone is...Posted: Aug-07-2024
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Bread from Heaven (18th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings One of the most amazing things about this story is how quickly Israel appears to forget about the God’s miraculous providence. It was not that long ago that they witnessed...Posted: Aug-01-2024
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The Prophet Elisha (17th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The prophet Elisha figures prominently in the first half of the book of 2 Kings (chs. 2-13). He was chosen by Elijah to succeed him as prophet to the northern kingdom...Posted: Jul-23-2024
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False Shepherds (16th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings Most of the prophet Jeremiah’s indictments against the people of Judah were directed towards the leadership–the king, the priests, and the self-styled prophets who only spoke what...Posted: Jul-18-2024
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Prophetic Opposition (15th Sunday in Ordinary Time)eClick here for this Sunday’s Readings The book of Amos presents the prophecies of a man who was called by God to declare God’s judgments on the northern kingdom of Israel for their many sins. We...Posted: Jul-11-2024
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Israel’s Rebellion (14th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The book of Ezekiel chronicles the prophet Ezekiel’s calling to preach to the Kingdom of Judah during the final stage of their history, just prior to their final fall at...Posted: Jul-02-2024
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Life, Death, and Immortality (13th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings Of all the books in the Old Testament, the book of Wisdom has the most extended discussion of the nature of life, death, and the afterlife. It teaches that death was not...Posted: Jun-26-2024
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God and Evil (12th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s readings The book of Job is of great interest to readers who are interested to know what the Bible has to say about the Problem of Evil. In chapters 38-41, we see...Posted: Jun-20-2024
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The Plant (11th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The Book of Ezekiel chronicles the very end of the First Temple period, just before the Judean monarchy was brought to an end by Babylon. Many of Ezekiel’s prophecies are...Posted: Jun-11-2024
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The First Gospel (10th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The Fall of humanity was an occasion of great sorrow, for from it come all the evils of this world. Wars, oppressions, and death itself, all come to us because of that...Posted: Jun-06-2024
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The Blood of the Covenant (Corpus Christi Sunday)Click here for this Sunday’s Old Testament readings After their escape from Egypt, the second half of Exodus recounts how God established the Mosaic Covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai. The Old Testament reading concludes a section where...Posted: May-30-2024
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The One True God (Trinity Sunday)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings Our Old Testament reading comes from the historical section of the book of Deuteronomy, where Moses recounts to the people of Israel how God led their fathers out of Egypt in the...Posted: May-24-2024
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From Babel to Pentecost (Pentecost Sunday)Click here for the Saturday vigil reading Click here for the Sunday reading Those who attend both the Saturday evening and Sunday Masses during Pentecost may notice that the first reading is different in both. On Saturday evening, the story...Posted: May-14-2024
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Ascended (Feast of the Ascension)Click here for the Sunday Readings Forty days after the Resurrection, we celebrate Christ’s ascension into Heaven. Before He died, Christ told His disciples in advance that He would ascend up into Heaven, and from there send the...Posted: May-07-2024
