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22 Apr 2012 - Third Sunday of Easter, Cycle B

"God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand.” The apostle Peter told the people that the God of the patriarchs—the God of their ancestors—had glorified Jesus, and Christ himself said in the gospel that he is the fulfillment of the law, the prophets, and the psalms. Peter’s speech in Acts, however, itself “fulfills” the gospel: Jesus told the disciples they would be “witnesses to him,” and lo-and-behold Peter attests: “Of this we are witnesses.” The message is consistent, too—“repentance for the forgiveness of sins,” the gospel says, while Peter advised, “Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.” Also constant is the way the message is revealed: at a meal over which Jesus expounded the scriptural testimony to himself, both on the road to Emmaus and later in the midst of the disciples. The apostles had faithfully preached the gospel of God’s promise to forgive God’s people fulfilled in the person of Jesus. This message was passed on in word and sacrament, just as it is now.

Authors Joel Schorn

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13 Feb 2011 - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Psalm 119 is the longest in the psalter, and it pretty much has it all--blessing, lament, song, thanksgiving, and above all praise. Its 176 verses stitch together a series of poems praising God's law. It also covers a wealth of human experiences: stages of life, emotions, daily existence. Its breadth symbolizes the overall sweep of the psalms themselves. In reflecting on her new translation, The Complete Psalms, the poet and writer Pamela Greenberg says: "The great thing about the psalms is that they address really the whole spectrum of human emotion, from intense despair and feelings of abandonment by God, feelings of betrayal by humankind, fear of mortality, to great joy and jubilance." The psalms, she says, put joy in the context of the eternal. They give those who suffer "a way to talk to God" and make "even . . . those periods of intense, almost unbearable torment . . . very transformative." They testify that anger is part of a relationship with God, and they "are very much concerned with justice. "I think mostly for Christians the psalms represent exactly what they do for Jews," she says, "which is the person of faith standing up in relation to God in a very honest and genuine way, and I think in that way they speak to all of us"--and for all of us.

Authors Joel Schorn

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17 November 2024

Presider’s Chair

\'pri-sīd-ərs 'cher\

Also known as the presidential chair, the seat in a parish church from which the celebrant leads the assembly during Mass. Its meaning derives from the chair, or cathedra in Latin, from which the diocesan bishop presides (from Latin meaning “to protect” or literally “to sit before”). The chair is a liturgical symbol of authority and pastoral leadership.

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