Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
For Aquinas, evil has no reality in itself. It occurs only as a parasite. Evil appears only because good things exist.
John J. Pilch
Throughout the Gospels Jesus, the authentic Mediterranean native, resorts to insults on a regular basis, and they are always gems.
It is only to the extent to which we keep the Lord’s commandments that we abide in his love; insofar as we fail to keep them we fail to love.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Here is the paradox of the fire that burns the bush without consuming it. What better way to portray the intense presence of Creator to creature?
Reginald H. Fuller
God sees the affliction of his people. He “comes down,” that is, intervenes in history out of his transcendence, to deliver them from the slavery of sin.