Posts Tagged ‘Reflections on the coming Sunday’s Gospel’
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Note: We can pray with the Sunday readings even if Sunday liturgies have been suspended due to the coronavirus. Bill Ayres continues to offer his reflections to help our prayer. Gospel at the Procession: A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Chapter 21:1-11) This is Matthew, a Jew writing especially for Jewish converts ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Fourth Sunday of Lent
Note: We can pray with the Sunday readings even if Sunday liturgies have been suspended due to the coronavirus. Bill Ayres continues to offer his reflections to help our prayer. A reading from the First book of Samuel (Chapter 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a) Saul was the king of Israel, but he had fallen out of ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Second Sunday of Lent
A reading from the Book of Genesis (Chapter 12:1-4a) “The Lord said to Abram: ‘Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: First Sunday of Lent
A reading from the Book of Genesis (Chapter 2:7-9, 3:1-7) No one knows exactly when the Book of Genesis was written, but biblical scholars calculate that it was sometime after the Jewish people came back from the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century B.C. and people questioned why they were away so ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Sirach (Chapter 15:15-20) This is in our liturgy because the author, a scribe named Yeshua ben Sira, writing about two hundred years before the birth of Jesus, alludes to a thought from the wisdom of Moses: “If you choose you can keep the commandments, ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (Chapter 58:7-10) “Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back against your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, ...Read More
The Presentation of the Lord
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Malachi (Chapter 3:1-4) “Thus says the Lord God: I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me. And suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek. … But who will endure the day of his coming? And ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (Chapter 49:3, 5-6) “The Lord said to me: You are my servant, Israel, through whom I show my glory.” Then later, the Lord continues, “It is too little … for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel; I ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: The Baptism of the Lord
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (Chapter 42:1-4; 6-7) “Thus says the Lord: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have placed my spirit.” Who is this servant that the Lord says is his chosen one? Is it ...Read More
“Hear the Word!” by Bill Ayres: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
A reading from the Book of Sirach (Chapter 3:2-6, 12-14) The Book of Sirach was written about two hundred years before the birth of Jesus when male patriarchy was much more common than it is today when we are moving—though too slowly—towards equality between the sexes. Thus, the author of this book ...Read More
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