The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Ezekiel 18:25-28 Book background Today’s readings continue to hound us on the topic of sin within the community. The first 24 chapters of the book of Ezekiel are oracles of judgment. The last half of the book takes a much more READ MORE
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25th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Isaiah 55:6-9 Book background Isaiah I: shape up or else; exile is coming 1-39Isaiah II: Book of Consolation, comfort in captivity 40-55 Deutero Isaiah (suffering servant songs)Isaiah III: going home 56-66 Trito Isaiah; struggle for a new temple and new leadership READ MORE
24th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Sirach 27:30—28:7 Book background Around 132BC, a man named Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira translated into Greek a book of maxims written by his grandfather about 50 years earlier. The grandfather had written these wise sayings in Hebrew or Aramaic. The READ MORE
23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Ezekiel 33:7-9 Book background The book of Isaiah is largely consoling to the people. Jeremiah was just the opposite. Ezekiel is a mix. The book begins with oracles of judgment against Israel in chapters 1-24 and then the latter half of READ MORE
22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Jeremiah 20:7-9 Book background On the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time we read from this same chapter vv10-13. Today we back up and read the verses before that. All the prophets wrote about the despair they sometimes felt in living out READ MORE
21st Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Isaiah 22:19-23 Book background Isaiah I: shape up or else; exile is coming 1-39Isaiah II – Book of Consolation, Comfort. People in captivity, discouraged and tempted to drift 40-55Isaiah III: going home 56-66 Trito Isaiah; struggle for a new temple and READ MORE
20th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Book background Isaiah I: shape up or else; exile is coming 1-39Isaiah II – Book of Consolation, Comfort. People in captivity, discouraged and tempted to drift 40-55Isaiah III: going home 56-66 Trito Isaiah; struggle for a new temple READ MORE
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. 1 Kings 19:9A, 11-13A Book background Chapters 17-19 are all the collected stories about Elijah’s life and ministry. Elijah lived under King Ahab, and even though he fights against Ahab and wins, he still gets discouraged. Leading up to today’s reading, Elijah READ MORE
17th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 See book background here. Under King David, the Israelite kingdom was at its height of peace and prosperity. It continued to flourish under his son Solomon, but towards the end of Solomon’s reign, it began a decline READ MORE
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Book background This book was written in the last half of the first century BC, about 50 years before Christ. The audience was Alexandrian Jews; they had been part of the Babylonian exile and ended up in Alexandria, READ MORE