Category: Weekly Study Notes for the Sunday Mass
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 147: 10/19/2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, we learn about what is called a “type of Christ” in the first reading and much about prayer in the Gospel reading. We begin this week’s study with a story from another Gospel passage that provides some important insights into faith and prayer relevant to the…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 144: 10/12/2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, in the Gospel reading, we will discuss the topic of faith through the story of the ten lepers Jesus healed on His way through Samaria. This week, I include some teaching on how to find God’s will in the addendum to the story.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 141: 10/05/2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, we learn from Habakkuk how the people of God can persevere through suffering. In the second reading, we learn about the importance of using our spiritual gifts and spreading the true doctrine of God. In the Gospel lesson, we study three short lessons from Jesus on…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 138: 09/28/2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, we examine a reading from Amos and learn about the dangers of luxurious living when it brings people further away from God. In the Gospel reading, we learn from Jesus through the story of Lazarus and the rich man how important it is to trust in…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 135: 09/21/2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. Last week, we looked at the Gospel of Luke and discussed the famous parable of the prodigal son. In the previous section of this Gospel, Jesus addressed the parable to the Pharisees. Remember that these people were the religious group who believed in strict adherence to Jewish Law,…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 638: 09-14-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes for 9-14-2014. This week, we open with an interesting reading from the Book of Numbers in which we see the incident of the fiery serpents inflicting the Israelites during their forty-year wanderings. Then we move on to the second reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, where…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 129: 09-07-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, we learn about forgiveness from Paul’s Letter to Philemon. Then we study Jesus’ teaching on the cost of being His disciple. Have you ever acted like an idiot? We are going to talk about that today in the context of forgiveness.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 123: 08-24-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, our first reading is from the final chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah. The passage is prophetic in nature; it touches on events in the last days of God’s plan for redemption. The second reading from the Epistle to the Hebrews deals with the challenging subject…
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 126: 08-31-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, we examine the Book of Hebrews, where we see the difference between the Old and New Covenants. We close with Jesus’ teaching of the Pharisees about humility, a message we all need to hear.
Sunday Mass Study Notes for Lectionary 120: 08-17-2025
Welcome back to the Sunday Mass notes. This week, the three readings focus on the persecution of believers and the need to assess our allegiances and alliances with those other than God. We believers should expect persecution because others who walked with God before us experienced these things.