Liturgical Bible Study Guide: Solemnity of Christ the King Cycle B
Introduction Instituted by Pius XI in 1926, this feast was celebrated on the last Sunday of October to foster the awareness of Christ’s dominion over all people and to establish peace among nations. After Vatican Council II the feast was transferred to the last Sunday of the Liturgical Year, the Sunday before Advent, on which the human race […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
Gospel Today we also finish our study through the Gospel of Mark. The time is just before Holy Thursday and the Last Supper. This reading is an apocalyptic description and needs to be heard in conjunction with Mark 13:3-8 where Jesus is talking of the destruction of the temple (which occurred in A.D. 70). First […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
Gospel Last week’s reading, as you will recall, took place in Jerusalem after Jesus’ triumphal entry and before the beginning of His passion. At that time He told them when asked what was the greatest of the commandments “The first is, ‘Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
Gospel Last week we heard of the healing of blind Bartimaeus. Today’s reading is placed by all three synoptic gospel writers during Jesus’ days in Jerusalem after His triumphal entry 5 (Palm Sunday) and before His passion begins (Holy Thursday). The scribes were the scholars and intellectuals of Judaism. They received the title “rabbi.” His […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Jeremiah 31:7-9 Jeremiah was the second of the four great prophets of Israel, a contemporary of Zephaniah, Nahum & Habakkuk. He was born around the year 645 B.C., almost a century after Isaiah. He came from a priestly family in Anathoth, a town about three miles northeast of Jerusalem, in the southern […]