The Word today, CorpusChristiB
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- May 31, 2024
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St Kevin, abbot
2 Peter 2:1-7 Each of us is in this reading today. Firstly, we are there as receivers of great gifts from God. Secondly, as people called upon to live up to these great gifts.
Mark 12:1-12 It is important not to leave this parable safely in the past. Have I heard the teaching of the prophets? Am I open to the coming of God’s Son today?
Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions, martyrs
2 Peter 3:11-15,17-18 Our attitude to time says a lot about us. The reading today asks us to see each day as a gift and an opportunity.
Mark 12:13-17 It is easy to recognize what “belongs to Caesar”? What about what “belongs to God”? What is God asking of me, personally, right now?
St Boniface, bishop and martyr
2 Timothy 1:1-3,6-12 There are sentiments in this reading that make it sound like it was written for us today: am I sometimes ashamed of the Gospel myself ? Do I need to fan into a flame the calling I have received?
Mark 12:18-27 Some Sadducees present Jesus with a fairly absurd argument. Notice, however the force of the present tense in Jesus’ response: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
St Norbert, bishop or St Jarlath, bishop
2 Timothy 2:8-15 At the Centre of our reading today, the writer quotes some poetic lines from an early Christian hymn. The affirmations are powerful and, at the same time, unsettling.
Mark 12:28-34 It is really good to ask ourselves from time to time what is at the very heart of our faith, what is at the Centre. Jesus’ response still speaks to us today.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8-9 We tend to think of the God of the OT as remote and violent. This delightful reading from Hosea should put us right.
Ephesians 3:8-12,14-19 You can feel the writer’s sense that the love of God in Jesus is thrilling, even overwhelming at times.
John 19:31-37 The symbolism should be clear: the blood stands for Jesus’ costly gift of himself; the water stands for the gift of life which is ours as a consequence.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
2 Timothy 4:1-8 The reading from 2 Timothy — written in the name of Paul but not by him — expresses the feeling of loss after the death of the great apostle, something we can call empathize with. At the same time, it reflects the later time of “institutionalization” in language foreign to Paul. The faith is now a sort of deposit to be kept…quite different to Paul’s own world of understanding.
Luke 2:41-51 This short vignette — unique to Luke’s Gospel — serves a double purpose. The child Jesus foreshadows his future ministry and role. At the same time, the portrait of Mary shows us how to respond to the wonderful things God has done for us.
References
-United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (2024av, June 2). The solemnity of the most holy body and blood of Christ. USCCB. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060224.cfm
-Sunday readings. (n.d.-s). Hearers of the Word. https://www.tarsus.ie/SundayReadings/
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