The prophet Joel, like many of the Old Testament prophets, speaks of the coming “day of the Lord.” This language was adopted by the early Church in its understanding of the meaning of Jesus so it behooves us to seek to understand the significance of the term. The prophetic message was delivered at a time… Read More »
OCTOBER122017
The Book of Malachi is not often used in the daily readings. It is the last book in the Old Testament in the Christian Bible. We don’t know anything about the prophet — in fact the word “Malachi” means “my messenger” which implies that Malachi might be a title, not a name. The book was… Read More »
October 15 2017 Bulletin
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OCTOBER112017
The Book of Jonah is something like a novelette — not the report of an actual prophet but a parable about the power of God’s mercy. Written, perhaps in the fifth century B.C. it projects back to a time when Assyria was the great enemy. It was Assyria which had destroyed the northern kingdom of… Read More »
OCTOBER102017
What did Jesus mean when he said, “There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part.” What is the one thing needed? The traditional explanation is that the “better part” is prayer. Martha stands for work and Mary stands for prayer and prayer is better. However, does that explanation square with… Read More »
OCTOBER92017
“And who is my neighbor?” That question posed by a scholar of the law to Jesus resonates throughout the ages. The story of the Bible tells of an ever expanding answer to that question. Jesus says in Matthew 24:14 that all the nations are meant to hear the gospel … which is to say that… Read More »
OCTOBER82017
St. Paul says in the second reading today: “Dismiss all anxiety from your minds.” That’s easy for you to say, Paul, we think. You dOn’t live in Chicago: a world where the streets aren’t safe to walk, where I fear the environment that the children of today are growing up in, where the air I… Read More »
OCTOBER72017
The Book of Baruch is not found in the Protestant Bible. Baruch is the name of the secretary of the prophet Jeremiah and this book reflects the memory of the teaching of the prophet. It was included in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that goes back to the Third Century before… Read More »
OCTOBER62017
Human beings haven’t changed much in our long history. The Jewish people returning from Babylon in 539B.C. are remarkably like us. So when we hear the lament of the prophets that the people must give up their tendency toward idolatry we should take it personally. One way of thinking about idolatry — looking for happiness… Read More »
OCTOBER52017
Henry David Thoreau in his book Civil Disobedience wrote the government is best is that which governs least. Part of the mythos of the United States is that rules and laws are a burden, that human beings should be left to act as they see fit. This basically optimistic assessment of humanity is not the biblical one.… Read More »
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