Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Can you conceive of telling a self-made man that he is loved? They are unable to hear such things. They are preoccupied with their own achievements.
John J. Pilch
If Christians know the Pharisees only from New Testament information, they are badly informed and the impression is erroneous.
Humility before God is the virtue of the good angels, and it conquers every human vice to which a sinner has fallen prey.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
“To go up to pray” refers not to making a private devotional visit but joining the gathered community in the afternoon atonement sacrifice.
Reginald H. Fuller
Clearly, Jesus’ hearers would say of the Pharisee that he was a righteous man. The tax collector, on the other hand, had nothing to commend him.