Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14 As we begin our Old Testament study for today, we find ourselves with Moses at Mount Sinai (Horeb). Upon their arrival at Mt. Sinai, God told Moses “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You have seen what I did to […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Wisdom 9:13-18b The Book of Wisdom is unique in the Bible as being the product of a Greek frame of mind, for the author is a Hellenized Jew, thoroughly familiar with Greek culture, writing probably at Alexandria in about 50 B.C. Against the background of Egyptian worship of animals and mockery of […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 In older Catholic Bibles, this book is listed as Ecclesiasticus, meaning “Church Book.” It received this name from the fact that, after the Psalms, it was the book most used in the liturgy; in fact, in the early Church it was a kind of official catechism used in […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Isaiah 66:18-21 Last week our Old Testament reading was from the Book of Jeremiah. This week we back up some 90 years in history to the year 694 B.C. and hear from the greatest of the prophets, Isaiah. Little is known about Isaiah as all our information comes from his discourses. According […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 For nearly three-fourths of a century after the death of Isaiah no great prophet arose in Judah. It seemed as though the work of the religious leaders in the 8th century B.C. had been in vain. During the long and wicked reign of Manasseh (693-639 B.C.) idolatrous worship was […]