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Catholic Bible Study Made Simple Gene Wilhelm
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- Religion & Spirituality
Exploring Sunday's Mass Readings to provide thematic sense to the readings. That theme is applied to daily life and its challenges. The reflection encourages the reader to consider some change to his/her life—even minimal incremental change. Although the reflections often identify typical impediments to authentic Christian living, they are an encouragement that change is possible.
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FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—JANUARY 30, 2022
Sometimes we find God’s truth and His ways unbelievable. We ask, “Why did He do that? Why did He choose me or that person?” God’s ways are not ours. His surpass ours in their perfection. One of the ways He expresses His perfection is in the way He deals with us, the way of love. His love is selfless, for our benefit, not His. Like God, our way of dealing with others, especially those we find difficult, should be for their benefit, not ours.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post -
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—JANUARY 23, 2022
Sometimes we are like the people in the first reading who hear God’s word and realize how far we are from the mark. Hopefully, we have encouragers in our lives as they did. Sometimes we are excited as were those in the gospel reading. However, as we shall see next week, their excitement turned to anger when they heard the full message. Regardless of what we see the other members of the Body of Christ doing, we are to do our part in the Body and encourage others to do theirs. This is an essential part of the gospel.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post -
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—JANUARY 16, 2022
“Do whatever he tells you” are Mary’s last words recorded in the scriptures. She speaks these words to us as well. If we obey what Jesus tells us to do, we can expect results as the servants at the wedding feast did—perhaps not as spectacular as the servants at the wedding feast did, but life-changing results in our lives and the lives of those around us. God loves us and wants to demonstrate His love for us. Sometimes that means doing things that don’t make sense to us.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post -
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD—JANUARY 9, 2022
What we fail to realize at times is that, when we were baptized, the Spirit of God not only fell on us but also came to dwell in us; and God the Father said to us and those around us, “This is my beloved Son, Daughter”. These readings are an invitation to us to recall these facts and to thank the Father for loving us so much that we were baptized and that His Only-Begotten Son was sent, baptized, and lived out His mission so that we might join Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for all eternity.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post -
THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD—JANUARY 2, 2022
It is one thing to say that Jesus is Lord. It is another to acknowledge Him as Lord and King in the sense that the scriptures were written. Our modern minds reject the notion of anyone with absolute authority and power. Yet this is who the Savior is.
We are more like the Jewish leaders than the magi. We are so busy with daily life that we fail to recognize the One who is in our midst and treat Him as He deserves.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post -
FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH —DECEMBER 26, 2021
The Church uses the readings to teach us God’s standards for family life—even among the messier things of family life: how one honors father and mother, how one treats spouse and children, how to love.
Even if these readings do not describe your family of origin, you are still expected to live up to these standards.
The Mass readings can be found here: Scripture Readings
The blog post can be found here: Blog Post