Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading – Amos 7:12-15 Amos is the oldest of the books of prophetic literature, dating around the time 760 to 750 B.C. He appears to have been a layman with no special training for the religious ministry. Amos wrote during the reign of Jeroboam II of the Northern Kingdom (Israel). It was a time […]

Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading – Isaiah 55:10-11 Until the eighteenth century it was presumed that Isaiah of Jerusalem wrote all 66 chapters of the book under his name. At that time scholars maintained that chapters 40 through 66 were written by a different author who lived some 150 years after Isaiah, during the Babylonian exile. In the late nineteenth century […]