Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 4th Sunday of Easter Cycle B
1st Reading – Acts 4:8-12 As Peter and John spoke to the people at Solomon’s Portico (last week’s reading) the priests, the captain of the Temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. The teaching of Peter and John upset them because the apostles were teaching that in Jesus there was resurrection of the dead – […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 3rd Sunday of Easter Cycle B
1st Reading – Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 Peter and John have gone to the Temple to pray. They encounter a man crippled from birth who begs daily at the Temple gate called “beautiful.” Instead of giving the man money, Peter heals him. Upon seeing the healed man, whom the crowds recognize, a crowd gathers around them at Solomon’s […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 2nd Sunday of Easter Cycle B
Introduction On April 30, 2000, His Holiness John Paul II, in response to the wishes of the Christian faithful, declared that “the Second Sunday of Easter henceforth throughout the Church will also be called Divine Mercy Sunday.” The desire for this celebration was expressed by Our Lord to Saint Faustina as can be found in her Diary […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 5th Sunday of Lent Cycle B
1st Reading – Jeremiah 31:31-34 For nearly 75 years after the death of Isaiah no great prophet arose in Judah. It seemed as though the work of the religious leaders of the eighth century B.C. had been in vain. During the long and wicked reign of King Manasseh (693-639 B.C.), son and successor of King Hezekiah, idolatrous […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 4th Sunday of Lent Cycle B
1st Reading – 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 The book of 2nd Chronicles covers the same time period as 1st and 2nd Kings. As is the case with Samuel and Kings, the two books of Chronicles were originally one book but appear as two in the Greek version of the Bible (the Septuagint) and this division is maintained […]