Scripture

By Jean Denton During the last weeks of her daughter’s life, Patty slept with her in her bed. Dorothy, in her early 50s, had been terminally ill for a year, and she finally gave up medical treatment when it became pointless and the side effects unreasonable. With pain medication, though, she sometimes writhed in...
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FIRST READING: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Jeremiah laments and bemoans his fate.  He preached a message of foreboding and warning from God to the people of the Kingdom of Judah.  It was the end of the Seventh Century or the beginning of the Sixth Century BC.  The northern Kingdom of Israel had disappeared from history about...
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Next week’s readings Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (August 11) Isaiah 22:19-23 Romans 11:33-36 Matthew 16:13-20 This is my final submission of an article to appear in the pages of The Michigan Catholic. I have greatly enjoyed writing this column, humbly following in the footsteps of my professor, Fr. Jack Castelot. I am most...
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FIRST READING: Isaiah 56:1,6-7 These verses begin a third part of the Book of Isaiah, which some scholars refer to as Trito-Isaiah.  They are the last eleven chapters of this prophetic work.  It was probably addressed to the returnees from the Babylonian Exile.  The Lord God of Israel is recognized as the Lord of...
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First reading: 1 Kings 19:9a,11-13a Horeb may refer to Mt. Sinai, or it could be the region in which the mountain was located.  There are many details in this story to recall the appearance of God to Moses in this same locale.  Moses, too, was placed “in the hollow of the rock” and God...
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