This Sunday's Gospel

Manach

GOSPEL Mark 1:12-15

Jesus was tempted by Satan and the angels looked after him.
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days,and was tempted by Satan.
He was with the wild beasts, and the angels looked after him.

After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee.
There he proclaimed the Good News from God.
‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand.
Repent, and believe the Good News.’

Chuir an Spiorad Íosa amach faoin bhfásach é
agus bhí sé daichead lá san fhásach á phromhadh ag Sátan.
Agus bhí sé in éineacht leis na beithígh allta;
agus bhí na haingil ag freastal air.
Tar éis Eoin a bheith tugtha ar láimh, tháinig Íosa go dtí an Ghailíl
ag fógairt soiscéal Dé agus ag rá: “Tá an tréimhse caite agus tá ríocht Dé in achmaireacht. Déanaigí aithrí agus creidigí sa soiscéal.”


Source : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020822.cfm
http://www.catholicireland.net/readings/?feature=sunday&lang=irish

Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): The temptation echoes earlier similar such which Adam and the nation of Israel experienced.

katydid

Manach wrote: »

GOSPEL Mark 1:12-15

Jesus was tempted by Satan and the angels looked after him.
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days,and was tempted by Satan.
He was with the wild beasts, and the angels looked after him.

After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee.
There he proclaimed the Good News from God.
‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand.
Repent, and believe the Good News.’

Chuir an Spiorad Íosa amach faoin bhfásach é
agus bhí sé daichead lá san fhásach á phromhadh ag Sátan.
Agus bhí sé in éineacht leis na beithígh allta;
agus bhí na haingil ag freastal air.
Tar éis Eoin a bheith tugtha ar láimh, tháinig Íosa go dtí an Ghailíl
ag fógairt soiscéal Dé agus ag rá: “Tá an tréimhse caite agus tá ríocht Dé in achmaireacht. Déanaigí aithrí agus creidigí sa soiscéal.”


Source : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020822.cfm
http://www.catholicireland.net/readings/?feature=sunday&lang=irish

Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): The temptation echoes earlier similar such which Adam and the nation of Israel experienced.

This is the Roman Catholic reading for tomorrow. Interestingly, the Anglican reading starts at verse nine, at the baptism of Jesus, linking it directly to his going out into the wilderness. So, in a way, linking the pledge with God made at baptism with its manifestation in testing oneself to resist temptations and to endure hardship.

Useful food for thought in this Lenten season, perhaps?

Manach

March 1, 2015
Second Sunday of Lent

Gospel MK 9:2-10

Jesus took Peter, James, and John
and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,
and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
“Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents:
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;
from the cloud came a voice,
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.

As they were coming down from the mountain,
he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone,
except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves,
questioning what rising from the dead meant.

San am sin rug Íosa leis Peadar, Séamas agus Eoin, agus sheol sé suas iad sliabh ard ar leithligh. Agus tháinig claochlú air os comhair a This is my sonsúl, agus d’éirigh a chuid éadaigh dealrach, iad gléigeal thar cuimse, nach bhfuil úcaire ar domhan a dhéanfadh chomh geal iad. Agus chonacthas dóibh Maois mar aon le hÉilias agus iad ag comhrá leis. Agus labhair Peadar le hÍosa: “A Mháistir, “ ar sé, “is maith mar a tharla anseo sinn: déanaimis trí bothanna, ceann duit féin, ceann do Mhaois agus ceann d’Éilias” – mar ní raibh a fhios aige cad ba mhaith dó a rá óir tháinig uamhan orthu. Agus tháinig scamall ina scáil anuas orthu, agus an glór as an scamall: “Is é seo mo Mhac muirneach dár thug mé gnaoi: éistigí leis!” Agus go tobann, ar dhearcadh dóibh ina dtimpeall, ní fhaca siad duine ar bith níos mó ach Íosa in éineacht leo ina aonar.

Ar a slí anuas dóibh ón sliabh, chuir sé mar acht orthu gan a raibh feicthe acu a insint do dhuine ar bith nó go mbeadh Mac an Duine éirithe ó mhairbh. Agus choinnigh siad an scéal chucu féin ach go mbídís ag fiafraí dá chéile cad ba chiall leis an éirí úd ó mhairbh.

Source : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030115.cfm
http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): The mountation mentioned is taken to be Mt. Tabor, and this mirrors the old testament nexus of Mt. Sinai.

katydid

Manach wrote: »

March 1, 2015
Second Sunday of Lent

The gospel for tomorrow in the Church of Ireland lectionary is Mark 8: 31-38

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words* in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’

Manach

Gospel JN 2:13-25

Since the Passover of the Jews was near,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
as well as the money changers seated there.
He made a whip out of cords
and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen,
and spilled the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said,
“Take these out of here,
and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”
His disciples recalled the words of Scripture,
Zeal for your house will consume me.
At this the Jews answered and said to him,
“What sign can you show us for doing this?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews said,
“This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,
and you will raise it up in three days?”
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead,
his disciples remembered that he had said this,
and they came to believe the Scripture
and the word Jesus had spoken.

While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
many began to believe in his name
when they saw the signs he was doing.
But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all,
and did not need anyone to testify about human nature.
He himself understood it well.

Source : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030815-third-sunday-lent.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): This account occurs in the 4 accounts, though with different a timeline in one on them (John @ 28 AD).

katydid

Manach wrote: »

Gospel JN 2:13-25

Since the Passover of the Jews was near,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
as well as the money changers seated there.
He made a whip out of cords
and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen,
and spilled the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said,
“Take these out of here,
and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”
His disciples recalled the words of Scripture,
Zeal for your house will consume me.
At this the Jews answered and said to him,
“What sign can you show us for doing this?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews said,
“This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,
and you will raise it up in three days?”
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead,
his disciples remembered that he had said this,
and they came to believe the Scripture
and the word Jesus had spoken.

While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
many began to believe in his name
when they saw the signs he was doing.
But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all,
and did not need anyone to testify about human nature.
He himself understood it well.

Source : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030815-third-sunday-lent.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): This account occurs in the 4 accounts, though with different a timeline in one on them (John @ 28 AD).

Ah, the same as the Anglican lectionary this time.

We did a Lenten preparation for this gospel during the week, where we looked at the story from the points of view of all the people who would have been there. We even role-played - I was a money changer! I had to describe how I felt about this madman running around upsetting tables and ruining my business...

It was a very interesting exercise, and really made you see what Jesus was trying to do, and how it would have affected people.

Manach

Fourth Sunday of Lent
Lectionary: 32

Gospel JN 3:14-21

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
“Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned,
but whoever does not believe has already been condemned,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
And this is the verdict,
that the light came into the world,
but people preferred darkness to light,
because their works were evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light
and does not come toward the light,
so that his works might not be exposed.
But whoever lives the truth comes to the light,
so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/031515-fourth-sunday-lent.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (14) The serpent refers to incident when Moses used a bronze serpent as a reminder of the promise of redemption, which Jesus uses to foretell his own cross and resurrection.

Manach

Fifth Sunday of Lent
Lectionary: 35

Gospel JN 12:20-33

Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast
came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee,
and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
Philip went and told Andrew;
then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
Jesus answered them,
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.

“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say?
‘Father, save me from this hour’?
But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven,
“I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder;
but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
Jesus answered and said,
“This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.
Now is the time of judgment on this world;
now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to myself.”
He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/032215-fifth-sunday-lent.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (23) hour has come has been noted as the turning point in the narrative, the arrival of the Greek visitor the start of the next stage that ends with the redemption not only of Israel but all peoples.

Manach

There are two possible readings on Palm Sunday.

Gospel MK 14:1—15:47

The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
were to take place in two days’ time.
...

MK 15:1-39

As soon as morning came,
the chief priests with the elders and the scribes,
...


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/032915.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary : The events of that comprise Easter.

Manach

The Resurrection of the Lord
The Mass of Easter Day
Lectionary: 42

Gospel JN 20:1-9

On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
When Simon Peter arrived after him,
he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head,
not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead.


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/032915.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): This was on Sunday, and the other disciple was John.

katydid

Manach wrote: »

The Resurrection of the Lord
The Mass of Easter Day
Lectionary: 42

Gospel JN 20:1-9

The Church of Ireland lectionary has the reading until verse 18. This longer reading includes Mary Magdalene's meeting with Jesus, and his telling instruction to her not to hold on to him, because he has not yet ascended to the Father.

Interesting how extending the reading puts the focus back on Mary; the first person to discover the tomb was empty, to spread the word, and to encounter the risen Jesus.

Manach

Second Sunday of Easter
Sunday of Divine Mercy
Lectionary: 44

Gospel JN 20:19-31

On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks
and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Now a week later his disciples were again inside
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were locked,
and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that through this belief you may have life in his name.



Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/041215.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):
19 - that day being the same Sunday
20 - Hands at side, ie the same body that was crucified
21 - Peace, being a traditional Jewish greeting.

Manach

Third Sunday of Easter
Lectionary: 47

Gospel LK 24:35-48

The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way,
and how Jesus was made known to them
in the breaking of bread.

While they were still speaking about this,
he stood in their midst and said to them,
“Peace be with you.”
But they were startled and terrified
and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you can see I have.”
And as he said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,
he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
They gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took it and ate it in front of them.

He said to them,
“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
“Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”



Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/041915.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):
-35: Bread references both the traditional Jewish custom at meals and that of the Eucharist.

Manach

Fourth Sunday of Easter
Lectionary: 50

Gospel JN 10:11-18

Jesus said:
“I am the good shepherd.
A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
A hired man, who is not a shepherd
and whose sheep are not his own,
sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away,
and the wolf catches and scatters them.
This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd,
and I know mine and mine know me,
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,
and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
This is why the Father loves me,
because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.
I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again.
This command I have received from my Father.”


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/042615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):
-12, Wolf - traditional symbol of spiritual enemies

katydid

Manach wrote: »

Fourth Sunday of Easter
Lectionary: 50

Gospel JN 10:11-18

Jesus said:
“I am the good shepherd.
A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
A hired man, who is not a shepherd
and whose sheep are not his own,
sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away,
and the wolf catches and scatters them.
This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd,
and I know mine and mine know me,
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,
and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
This is why the Father loves me,
because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.
I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again.
This command I have received from my Father.”


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/042615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):
-12, Wolf - traditional symbol of spiritual enemies

The psalm for tomorrow is the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my Shepherd". There's something about that particular psalm that resonates with people, along with the general image of the Good Shepherd.

Manach

Fifth Sunday of Easter
Lectionary: 53

Gospel JN 15:1-8

Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
people will gather them and throw them into a fire
and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/050315.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): .2 Pruning, to refer both the trials in life and the need to trim away of our selfishness.

Manach

Gospel JN 15:9-17

Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you
and your joy might be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.”


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/050815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (14) This echoes to an earlier OT passage where Abraham was the first to be called friend of God.

katydid

Manach wrote: »

Gospel JN 15:9-17

Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you
and your joy might be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.”


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/050815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (14) This echoes to an earlier OT passage where Abraham was the first to be called friend of God.

Sermon tomorrow on "All you need is love, love is all you need"..

Manach

katydid wrote: »

Sermon tomorrow on "All you need is love, love is all you need"..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ98qac2UIM

katydid

Manach wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ98qac2UIM

I was tempted to bring a recording and play it, but I've resisted... I'll have people singing it going home in the car, no doubt.

It's true though, that's what that gospel and the epistle boil down to. Handy to have a ready made "sound byte".

Manach

May 17, 2015 - Solemnity Of The Ascension Of The Lord
« May 16 | May 18 »
Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord
Lectionary: 58

Gospel MK 16:15-20

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Go into the whole world
and proclaim the gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe:
in my name they will drive out demons,
they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents with their hands,
and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.
They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,
was taken up into heaven
and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere,
while the Lord worked with them
and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/051715-ascension.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (15) - ie by preaching and by administration of the sacrements is the word spread.

Manach

May 24, 2015 - Pentecost Sunday - At The Vigil Mass

Pentecost Sunday
Vigil Mass
Lectionary: 62

Gospel JN 7:37-39

On the last and greatest day of the feast,
Jesus stood up and exclaimed,
“Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.
As Scripture says:
Rivers of living water will flow from within him who believes in me.”

He said this in reference to the Spirit
that those who came to believe in him were to receive.
There was, of course, no Spirit yet,
because Jesus had not yet been glorified.


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/052415-pentecost-vigil.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (37) - ie On the feast of The seventh and final day of Tabernacles, that Jesus is the source of spiritual nourishment.

Manach

@Mike5
Hi - this thread's aim was to promote one's weekly service message, as was explained to me by the OP. Thus while you are free to post such based on that remit you are also free to open a fresh thread if you which to discuss other Biblical passages. This allows this thread to be focused on the promulgation of the Gospel message.

Manach

May 31, 2015
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity


Gospel MT 28:16-20

The eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them,
"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."


Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readin...cost-vigil.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (28) That Christ remains an ongoing presence guiding the Church & its mission.

Delirium

MOD NOTE

off-topic post deleted.

mike5, please be mindful of the topic/content of a thread before posting.

Thanks for your attention.

katydid

Manach wrote: »

@Mike5
Hi - this thread's aim was to promote one's weekly service message, as was explained to me by the OP. Thus while you are free to post such based on that remit you are also free to open a fresh thread if you which to discuss other Biblical passages. This allows this thread to be focused on the promulgation of the Gospel message.

I agree with you in general, but it's important to point out, though, that what is posted as "This Sunday's Gospel" is only one of the possible Gospel readings, as per the RC lectionary. Other lectionaries are sometimes the same, sometimes different. The reading according to the CofI lectionary for tomorrow is John 3: 1-17.
Sometimes, was I have pointed out before, the readings may be the same but differ in length, leading to different emphases. While sometimes they are totally different.

The CofI lectionary at this time of year in Year B focuses very much on the Gospel of John. Tomorrow's reading, for example, is Jesus' exchange with Nicodemus, who is trying hard to understand what Jesus is about, and highlights, as the Gospel readings for the past few weeks have done, the absolute love of God. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son..etc."

I often wonder why we look at the Gospel in isolation - it is normally thematically linked to the other readings, and it's important to link them together in one's preparation for Sunday. Tomorrow, for example, there's a reading from Romans 8: 12-17, where Paul speaks about living in the Spirit.

Mind you, the OT reading is a bit off the wall, it's from Isaiah, and is all mind bending stuff about seraphs with live coals. A bit difficult to link to the other two...

Manach

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)

Gospel MK 14:12-16, 22-26

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
when they sacrificed the Passover lamb,
Jesus’ disciples said to him,
"Where do you want us to go
and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
He sent two of his disciples and said to them,
"Go into the city and a man will meet you,
carrying a jar of water.
Follow him.
Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house,
'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready.
Make the preparations for us there."
The disciples then went off, entered the city,
and found it just as he had told them;
and they prepared the Passover.
While they were eating,
he took bread, said the blessing,
broke it, gave it to them, and said,
"Take it; this is my body."
Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them,
and they all drank from it.
He said to them,
"This is my blood of the covenant,
which will be shed for many.
Amen, I say to you,
I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine
until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
Then, after singing a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives


Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/060715.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (22) The identification of his flesh prefigures the sacrifice on the Cross, as a freely given gift to humanity.

katydid

In the Anglican lectionary, it's Mark 3: 20-35 - the loneliness of Jesus when his loved ones thought he had lost his mind, and how he turns it around to show that all who follow him are his family, and understand him


And the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’ 22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, ‘He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.’ 23And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. 27But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
28 ‘Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin’— 30for they had said, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’ 31 Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. 32A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters* are outside, asking for you.’ 33And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ 34And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! 35Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’

Manach

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 92

Gospel MK 4:26-34

Jesus said to the crowds:
“This is how it is with the kingdom of God;
it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
and would sleep and rise night and day
and through it all the seed would sprout and grow,
he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit,
first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,
for the harvest has come.”

He said,
“To what shall we compare the kingdom of God,
or what parable can we use for it?
It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,
is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants
and puts forth large branches,
so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
With many such parables
he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
Without parables he did not speak to them,
but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/061415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (26-29) This agricultural parable is found only in Mark and deals with the natural and organic growth of faith and the Kingdom of God.

Manach

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 95

Gospel MK 4:35-41

On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples:
“Let us cross to the other side.”
Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was.
And other boats were with him.
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,
so that it was already filling up.
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.
They woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
He woke up,
rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!”
The wind ceased and there was great calm.
Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified?
Do you not yet have faith?”
They were filled with great awe and said to one another,
“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”


Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/061415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): St. Augustine uses this passage to illustrate the point that all Christians undertake a life that is also challenged by moral and spiritual storms and so to take heart of Christ's example.