Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 2nd Sunday of Lent Cycle B
1st Reading – Genesis 22:1b-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Today as we enter the 2nd Sunday of Lent, a time in which we concentrate on building our faith through penance and sacrifice (what have you offered up for Lent?), we hear of Abraham’s faith and the test to which God put that faith. This story is […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 1st Sunday of Lent Cycle B
1st Reading – Genesis 9:8-15 On this 1st Sunday in Lent, we look back to the covenant between God and Noah. In passing through the waters, Noah became aware of his relationship with God, and the rainbow became the sign of that covenant relationship. 2nd Reading – 1 Peter 3:18-22 This first letter of Peter was […]
Liturgical Study Bible Guide: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 The book of Leviticus was written primarily for the priests of Israel, the Levites. It draws together various bodies of law and ritual, starting with the laws concerning the Levites themselves; and in fact this book becomes a manual for conducting the liturgy. Catholic exegetes admit the Mosaic authorship of this […]
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: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle B
1st Reading – Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Deuteronomy is structured in the form of three discourses, the second of which contains the laws proper. The first discourse (1:1-4:43) is an introduction to the book. It stresses what the book, and the entire Bible, is all about. It tells us that God in His providence and mercy is constantly watching […]