Letters From Home

Letters From Home

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  • Take and Eat: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Sometimes we feel like Elijah in today's First Reading. We want to lie down and die, keenly aware of our failures, that we seem to be getting no better at doing what God wants of us.
     We can be tempted to despair, as the prophet was on his forty-day journey in the desert. We can be tempted to "murmur" against God, as the Israelites did during their forty years in the desert (see Exodus 16:2,7,8; 1 Corinthians 10:10).
    4 min
  • Tomad y comed: Scott Hahn reflexiona sobre el 19º Domingo de Tiempo Ordinario
    Algunas veces nos sentimos como el profeta Elías que describe la primera lectura de este domingo. Queremos echarnos al suelo y morir, conscientes de nuestros fracasos, cuando parece que no avanzamos en el cumplimiento de la voluntad de Dios para nuestra vida.
    Podemos sentir la tentación de desesperarnos, como el profeta durante su caminata por el desierto; o la de “murmurar” contra Dios como los israelitas, durante sus cuarenta años en el desierto (Cfr. Ex 16, 2,7,8; 1 Co 10,10).
    3 min
  • Endurance Test: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    The journey of discipleship is a life-long exodus from the slavery of sin and death to the holiness of truth in Mount Zion, the promised land of eternal life.
     The road can get rough. And when it does, we can be tempted to complain like the Israelites in this week’s First Reading.
     We have to see these times of hardship as a test of what is in our hearts, a call to trust God more and to purify the motives for our faith (Deuteronomy 8:2–3).
    4 min
  • Bread Left Over: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Today’s liturgy brings together several strands of Old Testament expectation to reveal Jesus as Israel’s promised Messiah and King, the Lord who comes to feed His people.
    Notice the parallels between today’s Gospel and First Reading. Both Elisha and Jesus face a crowd of hungry people with only a few “barley” loaves. We hear similar words about how impossible it will be to feed the crowd with so little. And in both the miraculous multiplication of bread satisfies the hungry and leaves food left
    3 min
  • El Pan que sobró: Scott Hahn reflexiona sobre el 17º Domingo de Tiempo Ordinario
    La liturgia de hoy presenta varias referencias a las que el Antiguo Testamento aludía para revelar a Jesús como el Mesías y Rey, como el Señor que viene a alimentar a su pueblo.
    Notemos el paralelismo que existe entre el evangelio de hoy y la primera lectura. Jesús, al igual que Eliseo, está frente a un grupo de gente hambrienta, con solamente unos pocos panes de cebada; es evidente la imposibilidad de satisfacer a tanta gente con tan poco.
    4 min
  • One Flock: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    As the Twelve return from their first missionary journey in today’s Gospel, our readings continue to reflect on the authority and mission of the Church.
    Jeremiah says in the First Reading that Israel’s leaders, through godlessness and fanciful teachings, had misled and scattered God’s people. He promises God will send a shepherd, a king and son of David, to gather the lost sheep and appoint for them new shepherds (see Ezekiel 34:23).
    4 min
  • Un solo rebaño: Scott Hahn reflexiona sobre el 16º Domingo de Tiempo Ordinario
    Mientras el evangelio de hoy nos muestra a los Doce regresando de su primer viaje misionero, el conjunto de las lecturas nos invita a seguir reflexionando sobre la autoridad y misión de la Iglesia.
    El profeta Jeremías dice, en la primera lectura, que los líderes de Israel extraviaron al Pueblo Elegido, pues se olvidaron de Dios y dieron enseñanzas falsas. Promete que Yahvé mandará un pastor, un rey descendiente de David, para reunir la ovejas extraviadas y para darles nuevos pastores (cfr. Ez 34, 2
    4 min
  • The Church's Mission: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    In commissioning the apostles in today's Gospel, Jesus gives them, and us, a preview of His Church's mission after the resurrection.
     His instructions to the Twelve echo those of God to the twelve tribes of Israel on the eve of their exodus from Egypt. The Israelites likewise were sent out with no bread and only one set of clothes, wearing sandals and carrying a staff (see Exodus 12:11; Deuteronomy 8:2-4).
    4 min
  • La Misión de la Iglesia: Scott Hahn reflexiona sobre el 15º Domingo de Tiempo Ordinario
    Comentemos primero el evangelio de hoy. En el encargo que hace Cristo a sus apóstoles, les da (y a nosotros también) un bosquejo de lo que será la misión de la Iglesia después de la resurrección.
    Sus instrucciones a los Doce nos recuerdan aquellas que Yahvé dio a las doce tribus de Israel en las vísperas de su éxodo de Egipto. Los israelitas también fueron enviados sin pan y con una sola túnica, llevando sandalias y un bastón (cfr. Éx 12,11; Dt 8, 2-4).
    4 min

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Letters From Home is the Daily Scripture Reflections podcast from the St. Paul Center. Our commentators, Dr. Scott Hahn, Dr. John Bergsma, Dr. Shane Owens, Dr. Jeffrey Morrow, Ms. Joan Watson, and Mr.…

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