Category: Missionary Bible Commentaries

Is 58:7-10; Ps 112; 1Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 Commentary The vocation-mission of salt and lightThis Sunday’s gospel is brief but dense with meaning. It continues the proclamation of the beatitudes [...]

Zep 2:3;3:12-13; Ps 146; 1Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12a Commentary The Good News for God’s PoorAfter meditating last Sunday on Jesus’ first proclamation, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at [...]

Is 49:3,5-6; Ps 40; 1Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 Commentary By divine providence, the Liturgy of the Church this Sunday offers us, through the biblical readings and especially with the Gospel, [...]

Is 42:1-4,6-7 or Act 10:34-38; Ps 29; Mt 3:13-17 Commentary Baptism - gift and commitment to missionWe have arrived at the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, in which [...]

Is 60:1-6; Ps 72; Eph 3:2-3a,5-6; Mt 2:1-12 Commentary “Christmas, begun on December 25, reaches its climax today in Epiphany: Christ revealed to all the nations, as indicated in the Homiletic Directory published by [...]

VIGIL MASSThe Nativity of the Lord (Christmas – Year A-B-C)For ever I will sing the goodness of the LordIs 62:1-5; Ps 89; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:1-25 MASS DURING THE NIGHTThe [...]

Is 7:10-14; Ps 24; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 Commentary St. Joseph’s mission, waiting for Jesus - Emmanuel “God with us”As the Homiletic Directory notes, “By the Fourth Sunday of Advent [...]

Is 35:1-6a,10; Ps 146; Jas 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 Commentary “Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord” (Jas 5:7)The third Sunday of Advent is traditionally called Gaudete [...]

Is 11:1-10; Ps 72; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12 Commentary The words of the title of the commentary above accompany us to the “heart” of the Advent season, which began a [...]

Wisdom in Expectation of the Son of ManIs 2:1-5; Ps 122; Rom 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 Commentary At the beginning of the Advent season and the beginning of a new liturgical [...]