Light of the Word: Brief Reflections on the Sunday Readings (Biblia.com)

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This book seeks to present the common themes that connect all three of the readings for Sundays and feasts of the Lord in the three-year cycle of readings. Organized by each Sunday and feast day of the liturgical year for years A, B, and C, these reflections are meant to be theological and spiritual suggestions that the one who is preaching can develop further and from which he can select...

(See Year A, p. 51.) Genesis 9:8–15; 1 Peter 3:18–22; Mark 1:12–15 1. “Believe in the gospel!” The gospel, the joyful news whose proclamation Jesus now inaugurates, a message that will be a single message for the entire world, for both this world and what lies beyond this world, begins with his forty-day fast. Instead of undertaking this fast as a self-motivated ascetic practice, he is driven into the wilderness by the Spirit of God. Likewise at the end

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