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Working with the Word Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman, et al.
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
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Let the Scriptures Speak Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Swords Into Plowshares
So when you read, “In the days to come, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills,” you know that you are reading an apocalyptic vision. That is, you are reading a description of an event that is not of human making.
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The Word Embodied
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Seeing Daylight
Sudden shadows that leap and loom trouble us at night far more than the tame shadows of daytime. If we are startled from a midnight sleep, we may feel a terror greater than at any other time: some gaping darkness, some unexpected anxiety, some uncovered dread.
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Historical Cultural Context John J. Pilch
Wakeful, Watchful
Americans are so terminally future oriented, often to a distant future (college for the infant; retirement for the new worker), that they frequently miss the present entirely. With our futures relatively well-secured, we need to be wakeful to and watchful of the present lest misfortune creep up on us before we realize it. more …
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Scripture In Depth Reginald H. Fuller
This coming of the Son of Man will be accompanied by the ultimate separation of the saved and the lost. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and the other left. One will be saved, the other rejected. Therefore, watch, as a householder must watch for the thief. more …
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