angfrayle on May 25th, 2005

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Jerome Neyrey describes the plan of his “Questions, Chreiai and Honor Challenges: The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in Mark’s Gospel” thus:

First, we need data on “questions” in antiquity: who asked questions of whom, why and in what context? Second, we examine the chreia for two reasons: (1) many chreiai begin with a question [...]

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angfrayle on May 24th, 2005

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The selections from Sirach in this week’s liturgy is about the worship of God. The passages proposed for meditation bear on conversion, sacrifices and offerings, prayer and contemplation, among others.

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angfrayle on May 22nd, 2005

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Here is how Fr. Cantalamessa explains the Mystery of the Trinity. The main premise in the explanation is that “God is Love” (1 Jn. 4:16b)
Christians believe that God is triune because they believe that God is love! It is the revelation of God as love, made by Jesus, which has obliges us to admit the [...]

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angfrayle on May 20th, 2005

To live wisely is to keep before one’s eyes the status that one has before God: his “image and likeness”. This phrase simply means “his child.” St. Paul would write that the wisdom of the cross has changed the status of men from that of slavery to the freedom of the sons of God. It is Christian wisdom that allows him to remain such even in a world that despises such wisdom.

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angfrayle on May 16th, 2005

When the disciple truly lives out his baptism, he becomes the fertile soil that the Word irrigates and the Creator tends with the Life-Giving Spirit. And all these becomes possible in the life of communion that he has with other disciples with whom he commits himself to a life of self-giving, life-giving, love.

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