Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading – Ezekiel 33:7-9 There is no Old Testament writer who has received more varied, even diametrically opposed, interpretations of his person and his writings than Ezekiel. He has been psychoanalyzed and found to be a victim of catatonic schizophrenia, unconscious sexual regression, schizophrenic withdrawal, and having delusions of persecution and grandeur. He has been called “one of […]

Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading – Wisdom 9:13-18b The Book of Wisdom is unique in the Bible as being the product of a Greek frame of mind, for the author is a Hellenized Jew, thoroughly familiar with Greek culture, writing probably at Alexandria in about 50 B.C. Against the background of Egyptian worship of animals and mockery of […]