Category: Weekly Sunday Blog archive
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read today’s Gospel Towards the end of our Gospel for today we hear about a winnowing fan which is a tool to help separate grain from chaff and other debris. We also hear about the threshing floor. It is a mostly flat, hard surface where farmers separate…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel Our passage today from Luke is wrapped around the parable of the fig tree. This parable appears in all three synoptic gospels. In all three we start this week’s Gospel with the coming of the Son of Man. In Luke there will be tribulations…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read Sunday’s Gospel In today’s Gospel we once again encounter the fig tree. In Jesus’ time, there would have been many fig trees given the ease with which they grow in the Holy Land. Going back to the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve sew fig leaves…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read Sunday’s Gospel This week’s Gospel has Jesus answer the question as to the great commandment or the Shema. The Shema, Deut. 6:4-5 as we read in the first reading and as Jesus recited in the Gospel, was greatest among the 613 precepts of the Old Testament…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Sunday Gospel In this week’s Gospel we encounter one of the blind men of Jericho. This was Herod the Great’s city, which he largely built and where he died. His son Archelaus had built himself a palace there as well. Mark and Luke tell of…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel We hear in the Gospel, among many things, Jesus’s words on divorce. In the first chapter of Matthew’s Gospel after the genealogy of Jesus we hear the story about when Joseph and Mary were engaged and how he planned to quietly divorce her because…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here for Sunday’s readings We encounter in this reading the Sea of Galilee or sometimes called Tiberias or Kinneret. It is the lowest freshwater lake in the world and the second lowest lake of any kind. It is called a sea with the exception of Luke, who calls it…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel This passage seems to act as a bridge between the mission of the twelve, the story within a story of the death of John the Baptist and the feeding of the five thousand. Looking for a little peace and quiet in a deserted place,…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click her for this week’s readings This week the readings see Jesus finally sending out his disciples to be fishers of men. Mark has them going out in pairs. It would be interesting to know who went with who. Did he keep the brothers together? Who went with Judas (not…
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Imagining Sunday’s Gospel
Click here to read the Gospel This week, Jesus heads home where he teaches in the synagogue on the Sabboth. The crowd was amazed. Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary as Mark describes him? In Matthew’s account, he is the carpenter’s son and in Luke , he…
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