Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Numbers 11:25-29 The book of Numbers is a narrative account running from the 2nd year after the Israelites left Egypt up to almost the end of Moses’ life: a total of about 39 years’ wandering in the wilderness. It takes its name in the Hebrew Bible from bammidbar (which means “in the wilderness”). The […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Wisdom 2:12,17-20 The Book of Wisdom is unique in the Bible as being the product of a Greek frame of mind, for the author is believed to be a Hellenized Jew (a Greek who is a Jew) thoroughly familiar with Greek culture. Against the background of Egyptian worship of animals and mockery […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Isaiah 50:4c-9a Again this week we hear our first reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah; this time from chapter 50 which is in what has been called by some scripture scholars Second or Deutero-Isaiah. The division of Isaiah into two (or three) separate groupings [chapters 1 through 39, and chapters […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
First Reading Isaiah, his name means “Yahweh is salvation,” is one of the most outstanding and most important of the prophets. He was born around 760 B.C. and lived in Jerusalem. There is a good basis for thinking that he belonged to a distinguished priestly and perhaps noble family, judging from his education and culture […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 On the plains of Moab, God charges Moses, now close to death, once more to proclaim the Law which he received through the revelation on Mount Sinai. This proclamation is contained in the fifth and last book of the Pentateuch, is called in Hebrew had-debharim (the words) and in […]