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 […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A
1st Reading – Exodus 22:20-26 Like his forebears, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob led a semi-nomadic existence in Canaan. He was forced by a severe famine to emigrate with his entire family to Egypt, where they settled around the beginning of the eighteenth century before Christ. Over the next 400 years the Scriptures tell us nothing about […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 Jesus Ben Sirach, the wise and perceptive scribe of Jerusalem, writes movingly of the chief loves of his life: the Law and the Temple liturgy. He also shows a touching devotion to the great figures of Israel’s past. He gives us a pithy collection of reflections, mostly on worldly […]