Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Isaiah 53:10-11 As we learned before, scripture scholars have divided Isaiah up into two (or three) groups and attributed authorship of each group to different individuals (or possibly groups of individuals), although other than Isaiah, their identity remains unknown. The first century Christians, like their brother Jews, attributed all chapters of Isaiah […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Wisdom 7:7-11 The Book of Wisdom, written in the 1st century B.C. is known to us only in the Greek. It is generally held certain that Greek was the original language. For this reason it is not contained in the Hebrew Bible; nor is it in the Protestant Bible, having been discarded by Martin […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A
1st Reading – Isaiah 25:6-10a The first twelve verses of the 25th chapter of Isaiah are psalms (songs) of thanksgiving and prayer. The first of these psalms (verses 1 through 5) is a hymn to Yahweh for safe refuge. It celebrates the victory of Yahweh as something that has already taken place. The third (the last half of […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – 2 Kings 5:14-17 The books of Kings chronicle the period of time between roughly 970 B.C. through 587 B.C.; the reign of Solomon, through the division of the kingdom into Judah and Israel, and then the Babylonian occupation and the destruction of the temple and the exile of the people of God. […]