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Lectio Divina - Year B

XXIX Sunday in ordinary time

Sat, 16 Oct 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

First Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 Second Reading: Hebrews 4:14-16 Gospel: Mark 10:35-45 Last Sunday, the liturgy made us meditate on our attachment to riches and even just to earthly things that keep us...
XXVIII Sunday in ordinary time

XXVIII Sunday in ordinary time

Sat, 09 Oct 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

Wisdom 7:7-11, Hebrews 4:12-13, Mark 10:17-30   On the twenty-eighth Sunday of the ordinary time, the prescribed Gospel passage discusses the theme of wealth and discipleship. In the world in which people amass wealth and place personal...
XXVI Sunday in ordinary time

XXVI Sunday in ordinary time

Sat, 25 Sep 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

Ist Reading: Numbers:- 11:25 - 29 IInd Reading: James: 5: 1 - 6 Gospel:Mark: 9:38 – 43. 47 - 48 Today we continue to read from the Gospel of Mark. Recall that last week we heard Jesus rebuke his disciples for their argument about who among them was...

XXV Sunday in ordinary time

Tue, 21 Sep 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

           In the first reading taken from the book of Wisdom, we find the first very important references to the figure of the Messiah who will have to suffer, be judged and be condemned to death. As it is...
XXIV Sunday of Ordinary Time

XXIV Sunday of Ordinary Time

Thu, 09 Sep 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

The Way of the Messiah The Word of God this Sunday defines the meaning of life not in terms of personal gain, self-interest and shallow success, but rather in terms of one’s sense of duty, commitment and fidelity. Ultimately, it is our ability to live...

XIX Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fri, 06 Aug 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

DIVINE ATTRACTION First Reading: 1 Kings 19:4-8 The Lord feeds Elijah, strengthening him for his journey to Horeb.  In our first reading today the prophet Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert and was ready for death. An angel of the...
XVII Sunday in Ordinary time

XVII Sunday in Ordinary time

Sat, 24 Jul 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

1st reading: - 2 kings: - 4: 42 – 462nd reading: - Eph: - 4: 1 – 6Gospel reading: - Jn: - 6: 1 – 15 The first reading and the gospel of today's liturgy make clear that God is concerned for his people. In the first reading, Elisha multiplies the bread...
XVI Sunday in ordinary Time

XVI Sunday in ordinary Time

Sat, 17 Jul 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

  first reading Jeremiah 23: 1-6, second reading Ephesians 2,13-18,Gospel Mark 6,30-34 This Sunday's liturgy offers us a few verses from chap. 6, but of surprising intensity, almost a sort of revelation that captures our interior gaze to fix it on...
XV Sunday in ordinary time

XV Sunday in ordinary time

Sat, 10 Jul 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

On the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, in the prescribed Gospel passage, Jesus appears to give the same advice to his apostles whom he commissions: travel Light. The first reading tells us that God uses ordinary people for extraordinary service. The...
XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time

XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sat, 03 Jul 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

Ezekiel 2:2-5; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6   Today’s three readings from the Holy Scriptures echo the Christian virtues of obedience, servitude, and humility that should be part of every Christian life.  The First Reading from the Book...
XIII Sunday of ordinary time

XIII Sunday of ordinary time

Sat, 26 Jun 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

Wisdom1,13-15;2,23-24 ,2 Cor 8,7.9.13-15, Mk 5,21-43  The first reading of today from the book of wisdom speaks that God does not take pleasure in the death of anyone because he is the creator as written in the book of Gen: 1 that everything God...
XII th Sunday of ordinary Time

XII th Sunday of ordinary Time

Fri, 18 Jun 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

First reading: Job 38.1.8-1, Second reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 14-17, Gospel: Mark 4: 35-41 First reading: Job 38.1.8-11 The passage is found in the second part of the book of Job in which the great problem of the suffering of the just is...
Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time

Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time

Thu, 10 Jun 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

Growing Mysteriously Ezekiel 17:22–24 , Psalm 92:2–3,13–16, 2 Corinthians 5:6–10,Mark 4:26–34   First Reading:  I, the Lord, bring low the high tree and lift high the lowly tree. In the first reading, we hear a hopeful message...
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Sat, 29 May 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Responsorial Psalm: 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22 Second Reading: Romans 8:14-17 Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20 This Sunday's readings help us celebrate the great mystery of the SS. Trinity (understood as what...
Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost Sunday

Sat, 22 May 21, Lectio Divina - Year B

  Jn 15,26-27; 16,12-15 The Gospel of John in chapters 14 and 16 offers a reading of the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. In this text we find many indications on the gift of the Holy Spirit and on the work he does. For Pentecost...