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This Sunday's Gospel
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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):
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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):
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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.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):
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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.0 -
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.0 -
Sermon tomorrow on "All you need is love, love is all you need"..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.0 -
Sermon tomorrow on "All you need is love, love is all you need"..0
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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".0 -
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May 17, 2015 - Solemnity Of The Ascension Of The Lord
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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.0 -
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.0 -
@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.0 -
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.0 -
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@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...0 -
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.0 -
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.’0 -
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.0 -
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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.0 -
June 28, 2015
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 98
Gospel MK 5:21-43
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat
to the other side,
a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.
One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward.
Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying,
“My daughter is at the point of death.
Please, come lay your hands on her
that she may get well and live.”
He went off with him,
and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him.
There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.
She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors
and had spent all that she had.
Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.
She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd
and touched his cloak.
She said, “If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured.”
Immediately her flow of blood dried up.
She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him,
turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?”
But his disciples said to Jesus,
“You see how the crowd is pressing upon you,
and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
And he looked around to see who had done it.
The woman, realizing what had happened to her,
approached in fear and trembling.
She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth.
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you.
Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.”
While he was still speaking,
people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said,
“Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?”
Disregarding the message that was reported,
Jesus said to the synagogue official,
“Do not be afraid; just have faith.”
He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside
except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official,
he caught sight of a commotion,
people weeping and wailing loudly.
So he went in and said to them,
“Why this commotion and weeping?
The child is not dead but asleep.”
And they ridiculed him.
Then he put them all out.
He took along the child’s father and mother
and those who were with him
and entered the room where the child was.
He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,”
which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”
The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around.
At that they were utterly astounded.
He gave strict orders that no one should know this
and said that she should be given something to eat.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/062815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (41) - originally Aramaic.
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 101
Gospel MK 6:1-6
Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples.
When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue,
and many who heard him were astonished.
They said, “Where did this man get all this?
What kind of wisdom has been given him?
What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!
Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary,
and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?
And are not his sisters here with us?”
And they took offense at him.
Jesus said to them,
“A prophet is not without honor except in his native place
and among his own kin and in his own house.”
So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there,
apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them.
He was amazed at their lack of faith.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/070515.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): Native place, Nazareth.0 -
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 104
Gospel MK 6:7-13
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two
and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
He instructed them to take nothing for the journey
but a walking stick—
no food, no sack, no money in their belts.
They were, however, to wear sandals
but not a second tunic.
He said to them,
“Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave.
Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you,
leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them.”
So they went off and preached repentance.
The Twelve drove out many demons,
and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/071215.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): 6:11, symbolic act of judgement0 -
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 107
Gospel MK 6:30-34
The apostles gathered together with Jesus
and reported all they had done and taught.
He said to them,
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.”
People were coming and going in great numbers,
and they had no opportunity even to eat.
So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.
People saw them leaving and many came to know about it.
They hastened there on foot from all the towns
and arrived at the place before them.
When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd,
his heart was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/071215.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): 34 - A common motif in OT, denoting Israel's need for spiritual leadership.0 -
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 110
Gospel JN 6:1-15
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee.
A large crowd followed him,
because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.
Jesus went up on the mountain,
and there he sat down with his disciples.
The Jewish feast of Passover was near.
When Jesus raised his eyes
and saw that a large crowd was coming to him,
he said to Philip,
“Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?”
He said this to test him,
because he himself knew what he was going to do.
Philip answered him,
“Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough
for each of them to have a little.”
One of his disciples,
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish;
but what good are these for so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the people recline.”
Now there was a great deal of grass in that place.
So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks,
and distributed them to those who were reclining,
and also as much of the fish as they wanted.
When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples,
“Gather the fragments left over,
so that nothing will be wasted.”
So they collected them,
and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments
from the five barley loaves
that had been more than they could eat.
When the people saw the sign he had done, they said,
“This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”
Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off
to make him king,
he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/072615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn) 4; Passover is mentioned here and other sections of John's text in reference to the continuation of the task of deliverance from sin.0 -
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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 110
Gospel JN 6:1-15
Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee.
A large crowd followed him,
because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.
Jesus went up on the mountain,
and there he sat down with his disciples.
The Jewish feast of Passover was near.
When Jesus raised his eyes
and saw that a large crowd was coming to him,
he said to Philip,
“Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?”
He said this to test him,
because he himself knew what he was going to do.
Philip answered him,
“Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough
for each of them to have a little.”
One of his disciples,
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish;
but what good are these for so many?”
Jesus said, “Have the people recline.”
Now there was a great deal of grass in that place.
So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks,
and distributed them to those who were reclining,
and also as much of the fish as they wanted.
When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples,
“Gather the fragments left over,
so that nothing will be wasted.”
So they collected them,
and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments
from the five barley loaves
that had been more than they could eat.
When the people saw the sign he had done, they said,
“This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.”
Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off
to make him king,
he withdrew again to the mountain alone.
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/072615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn) 4; Passover is mentioned here and other sections of John's text in reference to the continuation of the task of deliverance from sin.
Same in the CofI lectionary. My angle this week is how God works through us all, practical people like Philip and more intuitive ones, like Andrew...0 -
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 113
Gospel JN 6:24-35
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,
they themselves got into boats
and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
And when they found him across the sea they said to him,
“Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
you are looking for me not because you saw signs
but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
Do not work for food that perishes
but for the food that endures for eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you.
For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
So they said to him,
“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
So they said to him,
“What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?
What can you do?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:
He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
So Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;
my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.”
So they said to him,
“Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jesus said to them,
“I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me will never hunger,
and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/072615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn) - 35: Two interpretations of bread of Life. One revolves around that this means belief in Christ. The other also incorporates partaking of the Eucharist.0 -
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 116
Gospel JN 6:41-51
The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said,
“I am the bread that came down from heaven, ”
and they said,
“Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?
Do we not know his father and mother?
Then how can he say,
‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Stop murmuring among yourselves.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They shall all be taught by God.
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/072615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn) - 51: This use of future tense prefigures the sacrifice of the cross and the eucharistic offering.0 -
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 116
Gospel JN 6:41-51
The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said,
“I am the bread that came down from heaven, ”
and they said,
“Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?
Do we not know his father and mother?
Then how can he say,
‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Stop murmuring among yourselves.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They shall all be taught by God.
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/072615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn) - 51: This use of future tense prefigures the sacrifice of the cross and the eucharistic offering.
Third week in a row on the theme of the Bread of Life; this week's is more about how we are drawn into the faith by God through Jesus.0 -
Third week in a row on the theme of the Bread of Life; this week's is more about how we are drawn into the faith by God through Jesus.
Indeed. At Mass earlier today, the priest suggested that this Gospel recalls probably the most difficult concept facing believers and non-believers alike, namely that to the local people it was virtually impossible for them to acknowledge that a neighbour of theirs is the Messiah.0 -
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Indeed. At Mass earlier today, the priest suggested that this Gospel recalls probably the most difficult concept facing believers and non-believers alike, namely that to the local people it was virtually impossible for them to acknowledge that a neighbour of theirs is the Messiah.
I preached on that today. That the fact that he was the young fella from down the road made it difficult for the people to see beyond that fact. Like it's difficult for us to see beyond facts to the truth beyond; for example, when we are challenged about contradictions in the Bible, it can be hard to see beyond that to the essential truth the Bible is telling us. But that the challenge of doing that, of being thinking Christians, is what makes us good Christians.
Jesus didn't make it easy for his listeners. He used what some theologians call "obnoxious discourse", in other words, not trying to make things easier when challenged, but instead refusing to compromise but repeating and insisting that thy try to understand his message. Even hinting that it would not end well, with the little mention of the bread of life being his flesh.
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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 119
Gospel JN 6:51-58
Jesus said to the crowds:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/081615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): 51 - both as Word of God and sacrifical victim.0 -
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 122
Gospel JN 6:60-69
Many of Jesus’disciples who were listening said,
“This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this,
he said to them, “Does this shock you?
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending
to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life,
while the flesh is of no avail.
The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.”
Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe
and the one who would betray him.
And he said,
“For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me
unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this,
many of his disciples returned to their former way of life
and no longer accompanied him.
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe
and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Source :http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/082315.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (66) - The only instance in the Gospels where large number of his followers abandon him in numbers, but Jesus remains on message on this point.0 -
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 125
Gospel MK 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem
gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals
with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
—For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews,
do not eat without carefully washing their hands,
keeping the tradition of the elders.
And on coming from the marketplace
they do not eat without purifying themselves.
And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed,
the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. —
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him,
“Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders
but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
He responded,
“Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
He summoned the crowd again and said to them,
“Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.
“From within people, from their hearts,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/083015.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): (3) ie Mosaic law.0 -
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 128
Gospel MK 7:31-37
Again Jesus left the district of Tyre
and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,
into the district of the Decapolis.
And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment
and begged him to lay his hand on him.
He took him off by himself away from the crowd.
He put his finger into the man’s ears
and, spitting, touched his tongue;
then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,
“Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be opened!” —
And immediately the man’s ears were opened,
his speech impediment was removed,
and he spoke plainly.
He ordered them not to tell anyone.
But the more he ordered them not to,
the more they proclaimed it.
They were exceedingly astonished and they said,
“He has done all things well.
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/090615.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): Ephphatha is an Aramaic expression0 -
Gospel MK 8:27-35
Jesus and his disciples set out
for the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
Along the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do people say that I am?”
They said in reply,
“John the Baptist, others Elijah,
still others one of the prophets.”
And he asked them,
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter said to him in reply,
“You are the Christ.”
Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly.
Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples,
rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan.
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them,
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake
and that of the gospel will save it.”
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/091315.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): The reference to a journey is of multiple means, the physical journey that lead to Jerusalem and that which leads to a way of the understanding of heaven.0 -
Gospel MK 9:30-37
Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee,
but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
He was teaching his disciples and telling them,
“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men
and they will kill him,
and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.”
But they did not understand the saying,
and they were afraid to question him.
They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house,
he began to ask them,
“What were you arguing about on the way?”
But they remained silent.
They had been discussing among themselves on the way
who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
“If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”
Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst,
and putting his arms around it, he said to them,
“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;
and whoever receives me,
receives not me but the One who sent me.”
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/092015.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): -35: That a key principle of Jesus' teaching is the aspect of humility and service to others (Lk 22:24-27),0 -
Commentary (Hahn): -35: That a key principle of Jesus' teaching is the aspect of humility and service to others (Lk 22:24-27),
Another aspect of this gospel, following on from last Sunday's, is how Jesus plays with language to challenge his followers, and make them think about what he is about. There will be no earthly glory in being his follower - in fact, it will be difficult and possibly dangerous. Being a Christian is a challenge.
In the CofI lectionary, one of the OT readings in from Wisdom (1:16-2:1)we are given the gift of Wisdom to be able to face the challenge, and face down those who resent us and try to lure us into following them in their bitterness.0 -
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 137
Gospel MK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
At that time, John said to Jesus,
"Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name,
and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us."
Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him.
There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name
who can at the same time speak ill of me.
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ,
amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him if a great millstone
were put around his neck
and he were thrown into the sea.
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna,
into the unquenchable fire.
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.
It is better for you to enter into life crippled
than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,
where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'"
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/092015.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): - 42+ - Jesus uses hyperbole (overstatement) to emphasize that drastic measures are needed to avoid sin.0 -
Gospel MK 10:2-16
The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
They replied,
"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her."
But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate."
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery."
And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them,
but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,
"Let the children come to me;
do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
such as these.
Amen, I say to you,
whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child
will not enter it."
Then he embraced them and blessed them,
placing his hands on them.
Or MK 10:2-12
The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
They replied,
"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her."
But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate."
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/100415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): -"from the beginning" the fundamental origins of marriage.0 -
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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 143
Gospel MK 10:17-30
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him,
"Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: You shall not kill;
you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal;
you shall not bear false witness;
you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother."
He replied and said to him,
"Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth."
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
"You are lacking in one thing.
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
At that statement his face fell,
and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
"How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!"
The disciples were amazed at his words.
So Jesus again said to them in reply,
"Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves,
"Then who can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said,
"For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God."
Peter began to say to him,
"We have given up everything and followed you."
Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or lands
for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/100415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): -"the commandments" a reaffirmation of the God's core moral laws in the new covenant.0 -
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 146
Gospel MK 10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him,
"Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
He replied, "What do you wish me to do for you?"
They answered him, "Grant that in your glory
we may sit one at your right and the other at your left."
Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the cup that I drink
or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"
They said to him, "We can."
Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink,
and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared."
When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
Jesus summoned them and said to them,
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Or MK 10:42-45
Jesus summoned the twelve and said to them,
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/100415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): - 38, a reference to the both the suffering at Jerusalem as well the eventual trials of James & John on behalf of the early Church.0 -
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 146
Gospel MK 10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him,
"Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
He replied, "What do you wish me to do for you?"
They answered him, "Grant that in your glory
we may sit one at your right and the other at your left."
Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the cup that I drink
or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"
They said to him, "We can."
Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink,
and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared."
When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
Jesus summoned them and said to them,
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Or MK 10:42-45
Jesus summoned the twelve and said to them,
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/100415.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): - 38, a reference to the both the suffering at Jerusalem as well the eventual trials of James & John on behalf of the early Church.
I don't know about the RC liturgy, but in the Anglican liturgy one of the OT readings is from the Book of Job, the bit where God comes and tells Job how great he, God, is, and reminds him how small and insignificant he his in the great scheme of creation. Which is comforting in its own way, because it confirms what Job knows, that God has better things to be doing than to be punishing him.
And here we have the disciples, after all the things Jesus has been telling them about having to humble themselves to follow God, and they are fighting like little boys about who gets to sit next to teacher. They haven't learned Job's lesson that status and power mean nothing to God, and will mean nothing in the afterlife.
And still we haven't learned...0 -
The RC OT reading is Is 53:10-11. It picks up on the gospel theme - that sometimes we are called not to seek greatness but to embrace humility, and even humiliation.I don't know about the RC liturgy, but in the Anglican liturgy one of the OT readings is from the Book of Job, the bit where God comes and tells Job how great he, God, is, and reminds him how small and insignificant he his in the great scheme of creation . . .0 -
Ours was 38: 1-7. Where God comes to Job in a whirlwind, and reminds him of how great he, God, is - and of course, how insignificant Job is in the great scheme of things. Which also ties in with that theme; that power and status mean little to God. A lesson which James and John, fighting over power and status in God's kingdom, had yet to learn.Peregrinus wrote: »The RC OT reading is Is 53:10-11. It picks up on the gospel theme - that sometimes we are called not to seek greatness but to embrace humility, and even humiliation.0 -
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 149
Gospel MK 10:46-52
As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd,
Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus,
sat by the roadside begging.
On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out and say,
"Jesus, son of David, have pity on me."
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent.
But he kept calling out all the more,
"Son of David, have pity on me."
Jesus stopped and said, "Call him."
So they called the blind man, saying to him,
"Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you."
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, "What do you want me to do for you?"
The blind man replied to him, "Master, I want to see."
Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you."
Immediately he received his sight
and followed him on the way.
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/102515.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): "son of David", refers to the expectation that the Messiah would belong to that house.0 -
Solemnity of All Saints
Lectionary: 667
Gospel MT 5:1-12A
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain,
and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
He began to teach them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you
and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.
Rejoice and be glad,
for your reward will be great in heaven.”
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/110115.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): Core of the new Covenant on Christian living.0 -
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 155
Gospel MK 12:38-44
In the course of his teaching Jesus said to the crowds,
"Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes
and accept greetings in the marketplaces,
seats of honor in synagogues,
and places of honor at banquets.
They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext
recite lengthy prayers.
They will receive a very severe condemnation."
He sat down opposite the treasury
and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury.
Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them,
"Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more
than all the other contributors to the treasury.
For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had,
her whole livelihood."
Or MK 12:41-44
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury
and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury.
Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them,
"Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more
than all the other contributors to the treasury.
For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had,
her whole livelihood."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/110815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn): - Jesus points to a paradox: the poor widow (12:42) gave more to the Temple treasury than the rich people (12:41), despite her minuscule donation. Unlike them, she offered to God her whole livelihood with pure intentions and a generous spirit (2 Cor 9:7)0 -
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 158
Gospel MK 13:24-32
Jesus said to his disciples:
"In those days after that tribulation
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
"And then they will see 'the Son of Man coming in the clouds'
with great power and glory,
and then he will send out the angels
and gather his elect from the four winds,
from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.
"Learn a lesson from the fig tree.
When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves,
you know that summer is near.
In the same way, when you see these things happening,
know that he is near, at the gates.
Amen, I say to you,
this generation will not pass away
until all these things have taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.
"But of that day or hour, no one knows,
neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/1115815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):24 - Visions of heavenly chaos serve to underscore the magnitude of God's judgment, i.e., it will be a "world-shaking" event. Jesus turns the language of these prophecies toward Jerusalem to condemn its ways and forecast its coming doom.0 -
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Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 158
Gospel MK 13:24-32
Jesus said to his disciples:
"In those days after that tribulation
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
"And then they will see 'the Son of Man coming in the clouds'
with great power and glory,
and then he will send out the angels
and gather his elect from the four winds,
from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.
"Learn a lesson from the fig tree.
When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves,
you know that summer is near.
In the same way, when you see these things happening,
know that he is near, at the gates.
Amen, I say to you,
this generation will not pass away
until all these things have taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.
"But of that day or hour, no one knows,
neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
Source : http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/1115815.cfm
Irish : http://www.catholicireland.net/readi...day&lang=irish
Audio : http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
Commentary (Hahn):24 - Visions of heavenly chaos serve to underscore the magnitude of God's judgment, i.e., it will be a "world-shaking" event. Jesus turns the language of these prophecies toward Jerusalem to condemn its ways and forecast its coming doom.
Thanks Manach.
This gospel really does resonate in these times, I think......Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ98qac2UIM
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