Study of the Readings

Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ed.

• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
•Experience

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, S. J.

This week’s scripture begins a series of Eucharistic controversies that will haunt the Gospels over the next four weeks. I wonder if it is a strategic gift of providence.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

The people are fed with bread and fish, John specifies barley loaves. Barley was the most common grain after wheat.

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Thoughts from the
Early Church

Edith Barnecut, O.S.B., ed.

Commentary: Augustine

Governing the entire universe is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand people with five loaves of bread, yet no one marvels at it.

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Preparing for Sunday

Larry
Gillick, S. J.

Basically, conversion depends on being met by somebody, not by an idea.

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

The first part sets forth the unity of Jew and Gentile in the one body, providing a look back at the achievement of the Apostle himself...

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