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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...

raised arm” he had led the people out of Egypt, and they had no inward insight into the essence of God’s love. To them the love required by the covenant seemed like a command, like a law, and men always long to break laws in order to show that they are more powerful than the laws. But when the law of love now penetrates their hearts and they learn to understand from the inside that God is love because he loved men even to the point of taking their guilt upon himself, then the covenant has inwardly
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