The Good Word

In the preparation and waiting of Advent both the waiting associated with the Incarnation and Christmas and the preparation for the Second Coming one of the questions that arises is how do you prepare How is anticipation channeled In the passage for the Second Sunday of Advent from Paul rsquo s

On November 15 I posted Apocalypse Now in which nbsp I stated that ldquo there is one line however that we must return to in another post ndash lsquo truly I tell you this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place rsquo – for it is a promise difficult to interp

Second Sunday of Advent Year C The entrance antiphon and gospel specifically and the first reading and response more allusively speak of God rsquo s role to ldquo save rdquo give ldquo salvation rdquo to Israel believers perhaps all humans and even creation Now is a good time to ask exact

I love the Christmas season even if prior to becoming a Catholic I tried to invent it myself nbsp Admittedly it was an inchoate creation based upon buying little treats each week which I would hide away in preparation for Christmas day These were not mind you gifts for family members just

It does not seem proper to leave the Good Word alone on Thanksgiving particularly with the last post clinging to the top of the list I have meant to post earlier but the end of semester and the Society of Biblical Literature meeting in New Orleans gobbled up my time Thanks so much for reading

I took a course on law in high school In a mock trial I was haranguing a witness and I can still remember my teacher blurting out John you rsquo re flogging a dead horse I thought I might be flogging a dead horse with my first entry on the Conservative Bible Project CBP but I think there

I have a feeling that this week rsquo s readings were not geared to the Hollywood release date of 2012 but it works out well for those with apocalypse on the mind The first reading from Daniel 12 1-3 and the second reading from Mark 13 24-32 a chapter known to scholars as the little apocalyps

I am not privy to the ways of the lectionary either ancient or modern and sometimes I see the connections clearly between the readings and sometimes I do not I had a hard time making sense of how Hebrews 9 24-28 fits with the other readings for the Thirty Second Sunday and the responsorial Psalm

Mary Chilton Callaway a perceptive and profound commentator on the Jewish Scriptures and their vast matrix literature says that our understandings and interpretations of biblical passage are often more influenced by how others have read them than by the texts themselves nbsp By ldquo other read

The first reading for the Solemnity of All Saints is Revelation 7 2-4 9-14 what has been omitted from this reading verses 5-8 is simply the listing of the 12 tribes of Israel by name and the numeration of the 12 000 called from each tribe The reading as it appears in the lectionary begins with