Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Job was a foreigner, not descended from Abraham. He was a wise and wealthy man from the Idumean city of Uz (located between Edom and northern Arabia); a region which was famed for its wise men (Jeremiah 49:7). Job believed in the true God, whom he adored and to whom he offered […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A
1st Reading – Isaiah 58:7-10 Until the 18th century it was presumed that Isaiah of Jerusalem wrote all 66 chapters of the book which bears his name. The tradition of single authorship was first questioned around the year 1167 but serious questions were not raised until the late 1770’s and early 1780’s. At that time […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
Gospel – Luke 5:1-11 After reading from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue in Nazareth (the Gospel reading for the past two weeks), Jesus went to Capernaum where he taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath and cast out a demon, then He went to Simon’s house and healed his mother-in-law, healed many, casting […]