In yesterday’s Gospel text, we heard that Jesus went up the mountain pray after which he chose 12 from among his disciples to be apostles. Then St. Luke writes: “And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground.” In the Gospel text for today, we pick up at this point and hear Jesus speak of blessings and woes.
One cannot hear these words without...
St. Paul is obviously upset about the conduct of the community that he left behind in Corinth. He had spent a year there establishing the Christian community in this city of Greece. Once he left, he was regularly updated about the community and its activity by the members of the household of a woman named Chloe. Much of his first letter to the community of Corinth deals with the difficulties...
This is from my archive of Scripture studies. The Sisters are admitting two associates this morning; one of the Sisters will offer a reflexion on the readings.
Fr. Lawrence reflects on the Gospel story of the healing of the deaf and mute man in St. Mark's Gospel.
About midway in today’s first reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, he includes a rhetorically effective catalog of the circumstances of apostolic existence, in the course of which Paul ironically contrasts his own sufferings with the Corinthians’ illusion that they have passed beyond the folly of the passion and have already reached the condition of glory....