Bible Readings For Next Sunday

[Fidelis]

Per the request of some members of the forum:

LITURGICAL BIBLE STUDY
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C

Opening prayer

Amos 6:1a, 4-7 (Ps 146:7-10) 1 Timothy 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31

Overview of the Gospel:
· After last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus’ opponents the Pharisees were scoffing at Jesus’ teaching that one “cannot serve [both] God and mammon” (Luke 16:13-15).
· Jesus addresses to them the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. We call this a parable, although there has long been debate if this is the case. Jesus often started his parables with the introduction “There was a man…” (Luke 14:16, 15:11, 16:1). On the other hand, in his other parables, he never names any characters like he does here with Lazarus (v 20).
· The “netherworld” and “Abraham’s bosom” referred to in this passage do not refer to heaven and hell as we think of it, but to the shadowy place of the dead that the Jews of the time thought of as the afterlife; respectively, they refer to the abode of the souls of the unjust and the just, before Christ opened heaven.
· This parable, among other things shows that there is a life after this one, and that where one ends up depends on how he or she spends their life on earth.

Questions:· How do the lives of the rich man and Lazarus compare on earth (vv 19-21)? After death (vv 22-24)?
· What determines who enters heaven? Why does this poor man qualify while the rich man is kept out?
· What does this story teach you about comfort? Suffering? Why is it so difficult for people to be convinced of God’s ways? How is verse 31 prophetic?
· What does this passage teach about the afterlife? What should we do with our lives here on earth?
· On a scale of 1 (the rich man and his brothers) to 10 (Lazarus), where do you stand? Why there?
· Since lacking in knowledge is not the brothers’ problem, what is? How do you see that tendency in yourself?

Catechism of the Catholic Church: §§ 633, 1021, 2831, 2463

Closing prayer

Remember to read and meditate on the daily Mass readings found in the bulletin!

*Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs. * -St. John Chrysostom

2004 Vince Contreras

 

[stbruno]

You can always go to the ewtn.com website and they will direct you to the readings for any Sunday past or future.

 

[Fitz]

Thank you.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I have the readings for cycle B & C Sunday’s on our web site.

hsccfv.com/

I will have the rest of Cycle A there in a few months.

I also have a section on the saints.

 

[Toni]

Fidelis thank you for posting this. It must have got buried, but I do appreciate this.

 

[Fidelis]

Thanks Toni- I’ll try to promote it a little better next time.

 

[Toni]

Thanks because I started reading this Sunday’s brought mustard seeds to school for the kindergarten to do a project to explain the mustard seed a little, but there is a lot more than the mustard seed in Sunday’s gospel. So when you get it on pm me and I will help you. Or try anyway.