First Reading 1 Samuel 1:20‐22,24‐28 Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son, and called him Samuel ‘since’ she said ‘I asked the Lord for him.’ When a year had gone by, the husband Elkanah went up again with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and t...
First Reading Micah 5:1‐4 The Lord says this: But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, the least of the clans of Judah, out of you will be born for me the one who is to rule over Israel; his origin goes back to the distant past, to the days of old. ...
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Today's Mass Readings Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Year C Reading 1 Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 For the Lord honored the father above the children, and he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons. Whoever honors his father atones for sins, and whoever glorifies ...
Today’s first reading also recalls a widow’s generosity, offering nourishment to the prophet Elijah apparently in the midst of famine, the last food she had kept for herself and her son. That too did not go unnoticed. And our second reading today alludes to the Holy of Holies also, ...
for July 19th, 2017 Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Liturgical textshere THEREare times during the Christian journey, like Moses in today’s first reading, that you will walk through a spiritual desert, when everything seems dry, the surroundings desolate, and the soul almost ...
Waples, D., B. Berelson, and F. Bradshaw.What Reading Does to People. Chicago, 1940. Merton, R. K.Mass Persuasion. New York-London, 1946. The Process and Effects of Mass Communication. Edited by L. A. Dexter and D. M. White. London, 1964. ...
1. The body of Judaic tradition relating to correct textual reading of the Hebrew scriptures. 2. The critical notes made on manuscripts of the Hebrew scriptures before the tenth century, which embody this tradition. [Hebrew māsôrâ, from māsar, to hand over; see msr in Semitic roots.]...
Second Reading Hebrews 1:1‐6 At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he...
He is the co-editor (with Dr Roger Openshaw) of the education text Education and Society y in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction to the Social and Political Contexts of Education (2000); co-editor (with Dr Heather Ryan) of Learning to Reading in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Collaboration ...