Category: Weekly Study Notes for the Sunday Mass
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 03-27-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with a reading from Joshua. The successor to Moses, Joshua was one of only two of the original multitude that left Egypt who entered the Promised Land. The conquest of the land was accomplished under his leadership with victories, defeats, and noted events. The…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 03-20-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we begin with the Book of Exodus where we will see Moses follow God’s instruction to bring water from a rock. Then we move to Romans Chapter 5 where we will discover Saint Paul’s explanation of how Christians are justified by faith alone. Then we study…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 03-13-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with a reading from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, the book of beginnings. Today’s study reveals God’s gracious plan to make Abraham the progenitor of a physical line of the chosen people and the spiritual line of God-followers. The second reading is…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 03-06-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. Today we learn about the nature of faith and the importance of knowing God’s word so that when we need it, we have it to combat temptations we encounter in our lives.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 02-27-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we learn about the power of words to reveal a person’s heart. We discover how as believers, we can look to a future time when we will overcome death. Finally, we continue the study of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Saint Luke.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 02-20-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we look at several readings which get at the concept of dying to ourselves in order that God may work out His plan in our lives. This is counter-cultural and something that we can only do through God’s empowerment, for which we cannot even expect a…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 02-13-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we look at a reading from the Prophet Jeremiah, the second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians, and finally the Gospel from Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Mount.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 02-06-2022
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 01-30-2022
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week we open with two passages from the prophecy of Jeremiah, who served during the time of Judah’s spiritual downfall, preparing them for captivity and removal from the land. The second reading is from the familiar, but remarkable chapter on love in Paul’s first letter to the…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for 01-23-2022
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 from the Word of God. Then we move to the second reading from Saint Paul in which we learn about spiritual gifts…