Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Hankering after the “Old Faith”
Our saints would be incompre-hensible, our heroes nonexistent. And Jesus would not be. “For God so loved the world that he sent. ...”
John J. Pilch
Jesus urges the disciples to “keep [ = do] my command-ments” and “do what I command you.” A survey of any of the Gospels reveals that he repeats this exhortation rather frequently. Why is this necessary?
Whatever we love that makes us break God’s commandment, we love better than God, and that is a love deadly and damnable.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
When a British journalist asked Mother Teresa how she could keep on going knowing she would never be successful in her efforts to meet the needs of all those dying in the streets of Calcutta, she replied, “I am not called to be successful, I'm called to be faithful.”
Reginald H. Fuller
We know God to be love only because he has sent his Son into the
world, and sent him to be the expiation for our sins. Only on
those grounds—because of the incarnation and the atonement—do we
affirm that God is love.