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 […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A
1st Reading – Jeremiah 20:7-9 Jeremiah lived through one of the most troubled periods of the ancient near east. He witnessed the fall of a great empire (Assyria) and the rising of one even greater (Babylon). In the midst of this turmoil, the kingdom of Judah, then in the hands of deplorable kings, came to its downfall by […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 In older Catholic Bibles, this book is listed as Ecclesiasticus, meaning “Church Book.” It received this name from the fact that, after the Psalms, it was the book most used in the liturgy; in fact, in the early Church it was a kind of official catechism used in […]