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Looking More Closely at the Word
The Second Sunday
in Ordinary Time B

January 14, 2018
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

A Paradigm From John

It takes the full length of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke to gradually reveal that Jesus is Messiah and Son of God; and the Acts of the Apostles makes it clear that the disciples really didn't “get it.”

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, SJ

The Body Sacred

The body is a big problem for us, whether we want to admit it or not. Even the late, great psychologist Abraham Maslow, no churchy or Pauline preacher to say the least, warned us of the body’s degradation in our time.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

How to Evangelize

John the evangelist has compacted the development of discipleship into several striking scenes. In actuality, the process is longer, just as the Synoptic record indicates.

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Thoughts from the Early Church

Basil of Seleucia

Andrew was the first to become an apostle. It was he who opened the gates of Christ’s teaching. He surpassed the hopes of all by being the first to embrace the one awaited by all. 

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

In the Fourth Gospel, to “stay” means more than just to lodge in a house overnight; it is the same word as is used for “abide” in those Christological passages that speak of the Son’s abiding in the Father. This is what the two disciples really come and “see.”

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