Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
The readings for the eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time are warnings about the illusions that beset us, the sounds of the sirens that lure us.
John J. Pilch
In today’s story Jesus is invited to be a mediator, a very difficult but highly honorable role in this culture.
Possessions give you pleasure for a short time, but then they will slip through your fingers and be gone, and you will be required to give an exact account of them.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
A careful reading of the story shows it to be a brilliant cartoon illustrating how greed destroys all the covenant relationships.
Reginald H. Fuller
Ecclesiastes is not so much good news as it is the bad news that has to be heard before the good news becomes audible.