First Letter to Corinthians at Weekday Masses

To help appreciate St. Paul’s letter Thinking Faith delved into its archives and posted Jesuit Nicholas King’s consideration of it. He described Paul’s opening thanksgiving as “something of an unexploded bomb.” The beginnings of Paul's letters contain crucial elements that on which he elaborated.

What do we learn in today's first reading about Paul's solution to the problem of Christian disunity? https://t.co/7xbJq71HwW

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Thinking 'Chrisitan' = Thinking Differently

Thinking the same way as other social groupings does no think with the mind of Jesus. Radical individualism modern, Western people take for granted did not exist in the time of Jesus; it did not exist when the scriptures written about him and homilies proclaimed him and his risen life.

Helen Orchard contrasted “St Ignatius Loyola’s approach in the Spiritual Exercises with that of modern spiritualities that can mask a self-indulgent individualism. …while the Spiritual Exercises begins with the human person, he or she does not exist in isolation as the centre of a universe around which all else revolves.”

‘Thy will be done’ or ‘follow your bliss’? https://t.co/j8uXmbiumE #spirituality #AMDG

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Imagining the Sunday Gospel

On the Fifth Sunday of Lent many Christians hear the gospel passage of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead [RCL; RCL]. We have the time to read it reflectively while we are home. Reflective reading allows us to inhabit the scripture; its word is living and effective. We can allow scripture to have an effect on us.

Jesuit Brian Purfield walks us through the narrative. At the outset he asks, “How can [the raising of Lazarus] speak to us in our current situation?”

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