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April 9, Easter, No body: a Sunday Scriptures blog
April 2, Palm/Passion Sunday, Indominable: a Sunday Scriptures blog
Today we gather together to herald with the whole Church the beginning of the celebration of our Lord’s Paschal Mystery. This “purpose statement” for Holy Week is from the opening prayer of today’s Mass. The “paschal mystery” we celebrate is the suffering, the death and the resurrection of Jesus, but…
March 26, 5th Sunday of Lent, Rising: a Sunday Scriptures blog
March 19, 4th Sunday of Lent, Blindness: a Sunday Scriptures blog
March 12, 3rd Sunday of Lent, Living Water: a Sunday Scriptures blog
March 5, 2nd Sunday of Lent, The Lord: a Sunday Scriptures blog
February 26, 1st Sunday of Lent, Temptation: a Sunday Scriptures blog
February 19, 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, The Whole Banana: a Sunday Scriptures blog
February 12, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Going farther: a Sunday Scriptures blog
Today’s Gospel is the third of four continuous readings from Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount (Chapter 5). Jesus is summarizing for his listeners the moral life, describing for them what a good person looks like. Many early Christians in Matthew’s community were Jewish converts, so Matthew includes elements that were…