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By Mark O'Brien OP
This booklet presents reflections at the Sunday Bible readings within the Roman Catholic Lectionary for Years A, B, and C of the liturgical cycle. They formerly seemed in separate volumes of Sunday concerns released via ATF Theology within the Dominican sequence. they've got now been mixed during this unmarried quantity, color coded for simpler use, and with a revised normal advent and advent to the Gospel of Matthew. just like the prior volumes, this one is meant to aid these getting ready homilies and people with a wish to comprehend a bit extra deeply the readings utilized in the Sunday liturgy.
Mark O'Brien OP is a member of the Australian Province of the Dominican Order, often referred to as the Order of Preachers (OP). He entered the Order in 1967 and studied theology in Dominican homes of research in Canberra and Dublin. He was once ordained to the priesthood in 1973 and accomplished post-graduate reviews on the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, in 1976. He taught outdated testomony experiences at...
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One could describe the Bible as ‘the Great War Story to End All Our War Stories’ or perhaps as ‘God to the rescue of humanity from its own and God’s worst enemy’. It is told in a series of distinct books, commencing with what we call the Pentateuch and what Jewish tradition calls the Torah. This is a Hebrew term that can mean law, a law code such as in Deuteronomy, as well as instruction or catechesis (for example in narrative or story form). The storyline continues in the Historical Books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings or what Jewish tradition calls the Former Prophets (because prophets play key roles in them).
It is thus one of God’s creatures; identifying it as the devil is a later Christian reading (and the devil is another sinner, not another god). The falsehood of the human being’s rebellion is dramatically exposed in the consequences that follow. Disorder and division replace order and harmony (the shame of nakedness, hiding from one another behind ridiculous clothes such as fig leaves, fear of, and hiding from, God). Again, unlike ANE myths and many modern stories of the battle between good and evil, God takes the side of God’s worst enemy in creation—the human being—in order to save it from the monster that it has ‘created’—its disordered self.
I wonder whether there is a hint of sarcasm in Isaiah’s offer to ask for a sign ‘as deep as sheol or as high as heaven’. We know from the Kings text that Ahaz sought protection from the Assyrian superpower in the crisis: something of this may lie behind his evasive reply. Isaiah knows his man and the fears and self–interest that drives him. His announcement of God’s decision shows that God was already planning protection for Judah against the invaders: ‘the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel (God–with–us)’.