The first reading provides the ten commandments still familiar to many who will hear the passage nbsp Unless the shorter Lectionary option is chosen please not it is evident at once how uneven is the attention or space given to the various commandments nbsp The ldquo firstborn rdquo gets t

In turning to the teachings of the Church Fathers on Matthew 15 22-28 I am drawing on the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas for Matthew who gathered portions of the Patristic writings on particular passages for each Gospel and which are now available online albeit in a rather old and stilted tra

I wanted to continue the post on Canadian Lenten Reflections by pointing out a few things which we gain from attention to source and redaction criticism in a study of this passage First the passage also appears in Mark 7 24-30 but not in the Gospel of Luke In the parallel passage in Mark the w

nbsp nbsp This brief notice Mark gives illustrates a number of points of his interest as he writes to Christians in Rome nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp First there is the fundamental central interest of the public life of Jesus the announcement of the presence of the Kingdom of God nbsp This means

The biblical passage which appears below and the subsequent paragraph are taken from the 2009 lenten meditations of the Anglican Church of Canada for March 27 hellip a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting lsquo Have mercy on me Lord Son of David my daughter is tor

R R Reno has judged me in a new post today http www firstthings com onthesquare p 1324 to be an example of the wagon-circling guild mentality of so many contemporary biblical scholars More than a circler of wagons though my earlier response to him is the equivalent of a clarion call Ti