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 […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Wisdom 18:6-9 The Book of Wisdom, also known as the Wisdom of Solomon, is listed in the Muratorian Fragment [the oldest (second century) listing of writings approved as Scripture for use in the Church of Rome] as a New Testament book. The book is not in the Hebrew canon and it is […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C
1st Reading – Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23 Ecclesiastes is fourth in the order of the wisdom books of the Old Testament [the others being Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and after Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon/Canticle of Canticles) and Sirach complete the wisdom books]. Ecclesiastes is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew title. It appears in […]