Year C Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 46 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… How odd it is… to have a reading that evokes images of Good Friday… during Advent… how counterintuitive it seems… to mash-up Christ the King with Christ the Crucified… how unlike the excess of monarchy… is the poverty...
Year C Malachi 4:1-2a Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… According to The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Third Edition)… the word eschatology first appeared in English in the 19th century… and it refers to the doctrine of last things… that is… the ultimate destiny of...
Year A Daniel 7:1-3,15-18 Psalm 149 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Can God create a rock so heavy… that God could not lift it… this question is a convoluted contradiction about divine omnipotence… about being all-potent… because if God can create a rock that God cannot lift… ...
Year C Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Honey bees live together in large… well-organized family groups… they are social insects… not solitary ones… and because of that… they engage in a variety of specialized tasks not practiced by the thousands of the solitary ones… complex...
Year C Sirach 35:12-17 Psalm 84:1-6 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18 Luke 18:9-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The Book of Sirach was written during the four-hundred-or-so year period… after the last book of the Jewish Testament… Malachi… was written… and before the first book of the Christian Testament… 1 Thessalonians… was written… which...