Comments on the Liturgical Readings

XXIV Sunday Year B And on the way he questioned his disciples, saying, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And…

Readings: Is 50:5-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35 The First Reading (Is 50:5-9) introduces us to the “man of sorrows…

Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini Sunday 8/09 Mark 7, 33 They brought him a…

Readings: Is 35:4-7; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Leaving Capernaum, Jesus secretly goes into pagan territory, perhaps to…

XXIII Sunday Year B 31 Returning from the region of Tyre, he passed through Sidon, heading toward the Sea of…

Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini Sunday 1/09 Mark 7, 6 Jesus said: ‘This…

XXII Sunday Year B 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him.…

Readings: Deut. 4:1-2.6-8; Jas. 1:17-18.21-22.27; Mk. 7:1-8.14-15.21-23 Today's Gospel text is a multi-layered…

Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini Sunday, 25/08 Jn 6:63 Jesus said, "It is the…

Readings: Jas 24:1-2,15-17,18; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 By one of those sublime combinations that the Liturgy…