Palm Sunday, Year B, Epistle (Philippians 2:6-11)

You can find a commentary on the Old Testament reading here https://biblestudystjosephsparis.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/palm-sunday-year-c-old-testament-reading-isaiah-504-7/ and on the psalm here https://biblestudystjosephsparis.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/palm-sunday-year-a-psalm-22-1-7-8-17-20/ Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found

The Humble Christ (Philippians 2:8)

8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Some people have misunderstood this passage as meaning that Jesus did not really become human but only appeared human. However, Paul clearly sees Jesus as both human and divine. According to Marcus Maxwell, the point

The Servant God (Philippians 2:7)

7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. As Thurston and Ryan point out, in the previous verse we learned what Christ did not do but, in this verse and the next, we’re told what he did do. The divine Son of God, instead of being

First Sunday of Advent, Year B, 1st Reading (Isaiah 63:16-17, 64:1-7)

You, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. 17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance. … Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

25th Sunday, Year A, First Reading (Isaiah 55:6-9)

6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As

Jonah’s Anger (Jonah 4:1-4)

But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending