JOHN 6: 22–40         BREAD OF LIFE, Part I Ordinary Time, Sunday 18B (John 6: 24–35) A         TEXT New Setting 22 On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples,

TEA: Text, Explanation, Application TEXT  Mark 6: 7 — 13         The Twelve Sent on Mission Call and Mission 7 And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. No Baggage 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey

TEA: Text, Explanation, Application Mark 4:35–41   TEXT: Mark 4: 3541 Setting 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.

TEXT: LUKE. 15: 1–32 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 man of you, having a hundred sheep, if

TEXT LUKE 14: 25–33 Great multitudes 25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, No preferences 26 “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my

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. This

TEXT: John 6: 51–59 — Bread of Life, Part III Living Bread from Heaven 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Dispute among

JOHN 6: 41–51   BREAD OF LIFE, Part II Ordinary Time, Sunday 19B A         TEXT Jews’ Objection 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I AM the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he

TEXT Setting 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. First Temptation 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones

TEXT Matt 5:17-37 To fulfil the Law 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. 18 For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the