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Divine Mercy SundayBehind the readings for this Sunday lies a Gospel text which is never read, but whose influence is felt and whose concepts and images serves as a link between the texts that are read.  That passage is John 19:34: John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once […]Apr 10 2021
Easter VigilThe Readings for the Easter Vigil recount the history of salvation by focussing on the various covenant stages throughout the Biblical storyline.  My book Bible Basics for Catholics follows this same pattern, using stick figure drawings to illustrate these various stages. I’ll proceed to point out how all these covenants appear in various forms in […]Apr 01 2021
Good FridayEvery year on Good Friday, we read St. John’s account of the Passion from John 18-19, together with Isaiah 52-53  and Psalm 31. One of the themes that runs through these reading is the Priesthood of Christ. 1. There is priestly language already in the First Reading, from Isaiah 52 & 53, the famous “Suffering […]Apr 01 2021
Holy ThursdayThe Readings for the Holy Thursday Mass focus on the continuity between the ancient Jewish Passover and the institution of the Eucharist.  As the Passover was the meal that marked the transition from slavery to Egypt to the freedom of the Exodus, so the Eucharist is the meal that marks the transition from slavery to […]Apr 01 2021
My God! Why Have You Forsaken Me? Readings for Passion SundayHow could the Messiah die? Despite a few mysterious prophetic texts that seemed to intimate this possibility, the idea that the Messiah could arrive and subsequently be killed was radically counter-intuitive to most first-century Jews.  Yet the conviction of the early Christians, based on Jesus of Nazareth’s own teachings about himself, was that the radically […]Mar 25 2021
The New Covenant: 5th Sunday of LentIn this Lent of Year B, we are taking a survey through the Old Testament of the great covenant moments. We have seen the Noahic covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the covenant failure of Israel resulting in exile, and now finally, on this fifth week, we witness the promise of the New Covenant […]Mar 20 2021

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