JOHN 20: 01–10 Easter Sunday 1, Years A, B, C, Morning Mass   A.        TEXT   Mary Magdalene Arrives at Tomb 1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag’dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. She

THE PASSION ACCORDING TO LUKE   Introduction Each week you receive TEA — Text, Explanation and Application. This week the text alone would extend over five pages and the explanation would be much more. So I decided not to send “TEA” as such but a way of reading and listening to the Passion by Luke.

JOHN 08: 01–11 Lent Sunday 5C TEXT Setting 1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. Woman caught in adultery 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had

LUKE. 15: 1–32 Lent Sunday 4C (Verses 4–11 omitted in Liturgy) TEXT Setting 1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: Lost Sheep 4: “What

LUKE 13: 01–09 (Lent 3C) TEXT The Galileans 1 There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? 3

TEXT Wilderness 1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit 2 for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry. First Temptation 3 The devil said to him, “If

LUKE 05: 01–11. Ordinary Time Sunday 5C TEXT Setting for Jesus’ Teaching 1 While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes’aret. 2 And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

LUKE 04: 21–30 Ordinary Time Sunday 4C TEXT Reaction to Jesus’ Sermon 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. 22 And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; Objection to Jesus and they said, “Is

  LUKE 01: 01–04 Ordinary Time Sunday 3C Introduction to the Sunday Reading. The Gospel for this Sunday contains two passages, not related or directly connected. The first is the Prologue to Luke’s writings (Lk. 1: 1-4), the second (Lk. 4: 14-21) which gives first recorded words in this Gospel.   TEXT Luke’s Reason in