Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Fifth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time   Readings: Isa 58:7-10; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16. 1/ Reading I: RSV Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8 Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Fourth Week – OT2 Readings: 1 Kgs 3:4-13; Mk 6:30-34 Reading 1 (1 Kgs 3:4-13): Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, because that was the most renowned high place. Upon its altar Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” Solomon answered: “You have shown great favor to your servant, my father David, because he behaved faithfully toward you, with justice and an upright heart; … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Fourth Week – OT2 Readings: Sir 47:2-11; Mk 6:14-29.    Reading 1 (Sir 47:2-11): Like the choice fat of the sacred offerings,so was David in Israel.He made sport of lions as though they were kids,and of bears, like lambs of the flock.As a youth he slew the giantand wiped out the people’s disgrace,When his hand let fly the slingstonethat crushed the pride of Goliath.Since he called upon the Most High God,who gave strength to his right armTo defeat the skilled warriorand raise up the might of his people,Therefore the … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Fourth Week – OT2   Readings: I Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12; Mk 6:7-13. 1/ First Reading: RSV 1 Kings 2:1 When David’s time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Fourth Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Sam 2: 9-17; Mk 6:1-6  Reading 1 (2 Sam 2, 9-17): King David said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, Tour all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number. Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered: in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand. Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people, and said … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Fourth Week – OT2   Readings: 2 Sam 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30 – 19:3; Mk 5:21-43. 1/ First Reading: RSV 2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, “Behold, I … Read more