United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
November 19 2015
Thursday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 500
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/111915.cfm
1 Maccabees 2 15:29
An innocent sounding phrase pops up here... "Zeal for the law." I wonder what inspirational examples of "zeal for the law" we will learn about here? Well first, we have Mathathias who shows his "zeal for the law" by murdering a man on the altar along with another man who Antiochus had sent. Then we get a cross-reference to Phineas as another example of "zeal for the law." In that example, Phineas saw a man of Israel and a Midianite woman having sex, so he drove a spear through their bodies and killed them both.
And God was so pleased to see this killing that He terminated an ongoing plague that He had started a few weeks previously (24,000 people had died so far). See #27 in the list of God's killings...
http://revjimc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/rgfsmcl-030.html
Psalm 50: 1B-2 5-6 14-15
I don't know if it's deliberate but this section skips right over verses 10 to 12 where God takes credit for designing all life on Earth. So the message to any children with "eye worm" parasites making them blind is - that's God's design.
Psalm 95:8
Harden not your heart. Good advice.![](cid:8186F85E-48CF-4560-82AB-18E60C01E2C7@mobilenotes.apple.com)
Luke 19: 41-44
This is the story of Jesus smashing up tables in the temple where the money changers were trading. (The extract stops short of the good bit - spoiler alert - that's coming tomorrow!) It's a good story I think, but there are contradictory accounts of when it happened. John says it was at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Luke says on the day of his triumphal entry. Matthew says it was the day after. But never mind. At least Jesus could recommend a local carpenter who could fix the tables.
And God was so pleased to see this killing that He terminated an ongoing plague that He had started a few weeks previously (24,000 people had died so far). See #27 in the list of God's killings...
http://revjimc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/rgfsmcl-030.html
Psalm 50: 1B-2 5-6 14-15
I don't know if it's deliberate but this section skips right over verses 10 to 12 where God takes credit for designing all life on Earth. So the message to any children with "eye worm" parasites making them blind is - that's God's design.
Psalm 95:8
Harden not your heart. Good advice.
Luke 19: 41-44
This is the story of Jesus smashing up tables in the temple where the money changers were trading. (The extract stops short of the good bit - spoiler alert - that's coming tomorrow!) It's a good story I think, but there are contradictory accounts of when it happened. John says it was at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Luke says on the day of his triumphal entry. Matthew says it was the day after. But never mind. At least Jesus could recommend a local carpenter who could fix the tables.
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With thanks to Steve Wells
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Skeptics-Annotated-Bible-Version/dp/0988245108
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