Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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 […]

Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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 […]