Weekly Scripture Reflections
Sister Rea McDonnell, SSND, offers reflections on the Liturgical Readings for each day. If you wish to share your own reflections or have comments or questions, please feel free to email Sister Rea. (reassnd@juno.com)
Friday, July 30, 2010
Prophets comfort or confront the people and the powerful. Today we hear the Lord’s promise of disaster unless the people listen to Jeremiah.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Jeremiah watches the potter make, and then re-make a vessel. God reminds us that we are clay. God can form and re-form us.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Poor Jeremiah is on an emotional rollercoaster, and all because of his relationship with his Lord. From joy to pain, and an indictment of God’s own fickleness: “Truly you are to me like a deceitful brook, whose waters fail."
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
It seems that in the first part of our Jeremiah reading that God is speaking, weeping over the destruction of God’s people. Then we speak, with Jeremiah: “Have you struck us down?…we look for peace…for a time of healing…we set all our hope on you.”
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Today we celebrate grandparents, ancestors, the elderly. We are offered a chance to contemplate the foremothers and forefathers of Jesus, the Word made flesh.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Abraham models a reverent insistence in his begging God. “Far be it from you,” he dares to tell God, to allow any unjust destruction. On the day Abraham called, God responded; “on the day I called,” we pray in the psalm, “you answered me."
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
On July 12, Isaiah announced the same message as Jeremiah does today: “act justly, do not oppress the alien, the orphan and the widow, do not shed innocent blood…” If the people of Israel didn't "get it", have we?
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