Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of this commentary is threefold: to give you
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the background for each reading;
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a better understanding of its message; and
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the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us.
I hope you find it helpful!
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us. ZECHariah 9:9-10 We hear from the Book of the prophet Zechariah only twice in the entire three-year Sunday readings cycle: on the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time in year C and this Sunday, the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time in year A. So, let’s review who Zechariah is, [...]
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)
2 Kings 4:8 – 11, 14 – 16a Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us. This Sunday, we will hear one of Elisha’s miraculous pronouncements, one of a series of miracles performed at his hand. It prepares us for the Gospel. We haven’t read from 2 Kings for a long time, so let’s place [...]
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)
Matthew 10:26 - 33 Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us. We return to Ordinary Time, picking up where we left off before Lent and Easter. Remember, the Gospel of Matthew is the featured gospel this year - Year A. Ordinarily, we begin with the first reading. This week, however, I would like to begin [...]
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Year A)
Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us. Today’s solemnity – those of us who are my age and older recall it as Corpus Christi – has its origin in the Middle Ages as an expression of the faithful’s devotion to the Blessed Sacrament during a time when very few felt worthy to receive our Lord [...]
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY (Year A)
Welcome to my annotated commentary on Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings together provide us. Exodus 34:4b – 6, 8 – 9 Throughout Salvation History, we read in Sacred Scriptures that God revealed himself to us at various times. In Gn. 3:8ff, we hear God walk in the Garden of Eden and have a personal conversation with Adam and Eve. After he expelled [...]
PENTECOST SUNDAY (Year A)
Welcome to my annotated commentary of Sunday’s readings. The purpose of my commentary is to give you the background for each reading, a little better understanding of its message and the message that all of the Sunday readings provide us. On Pentecost Sunday, you will see that different readings are prescribed for the Vigil Mass than for the Mass on Sunday. I will reflect on the readings for the Sunday Masses only. John 20:19-23 On the Second Sunday of Easter, the Gospel reading is the same in all three [...]