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 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

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

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, Gospel Commentary (Luke 5:1-11)

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to

Fifth Sunday, Ordinary Time, Year C, First Reading (Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8)

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, … 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the