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Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 75 – 02-09-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. Once or twice in a lifetime, God allows events to occur in the life of a person for reasons that they may not understand at the moment, but later see how God used them to reveal their pride and sinfulness and need for salvation through faith in Jesus.…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 525 – 02-02-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass Study Notes. This week we look at the Old Testament Prophet Malachi as well as the New Testament Book of Hebrews. We will look at the exciting provisions of the New Covenant. Then we move onto the continuing story of the early life of Jesus in the Gospel of…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 69 – 1-26-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with a reading from the Book of Nehemiah in which we learn about rebuilding of the people of God through their learning of the Word of God. Then we move to the second reading from Saint Paul in which we learn about spiritual gifts…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 66 – 1-19-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with an Old Testament reading from the prophecy of Isaiah, speaking about the future restoration of Israel. Then we move to Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church. In this portion, he writes about the variety of spiritual gifts that God has given the…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 21 – 1-12-2025
This week we will again look at Isaiah and a prophecy concerning Jesus. Then we will move on to a study of Jesus’ baptism and discuss His nature as both God and Man along with his radical obedience to the Father’s plan for His life. Because of the concepts covered in the readings we are…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 12-29-2024
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we look at the readings from First Samuel, then Colossians, and finally the Gospel reading from Saint Luke.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 12-22-2024
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with the first reading from the Prophet Micah where we learn about a prediction God gave concerning the Messiah. Then we learn about Jesus’ high priestly ministry in the second reading from the Book of Hebrews. We close this week’s study with the Gospel…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 12-15-2024
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with a reading from Zephaniah, one of the so-called “Minor Prophets,” largely because their 12 prophecies are shorter than the Major Prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah. Then we move to one of the Epistles of St. Paul, Philippians, a letter likely written from a…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 12-08-2024
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week’s reading begins with a passage from the Apocrypha. We begin our exposition with the second reading, which then from Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi concludes with the Gospel reading from the third chapter of Luke. The Philippians passage allows us to see into the…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 12-01-2024
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open to the teaching of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah then move to one of the Apostle Paul’s letters to a young church in the earliest years of Christianity. Finally, we look at a prophetic portion of the Gospel of Luke. These are not easy…