Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The early Church called baptism enlightenment. This shows up in the way the evangelists treat Jesus’ healings from physical blindness.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
God wants us to shout for joy. We are delivered, gently gathered from the ends of the earth, with all the others of our motley kind, neither seeing straight nor walking tall.
John J. Pilch
The healed beggar joins Jesus’ entourage because he is indebted to Jesus and will sing his—and the patron’s—praises far and wide.
Let us open ourselves to the light, then, and so to God. Let us open ourselves to the light, and become disciples of the Lord.
Reginald H. Fuller
It would be hard to find a more appropriate psalm to go with [the hymn found at] Jeremiah 31:7-9, for like that hymn it celebrates the return from Babylon.