Reflections on the Sunday Readings

                                                                        In Jesus’s time and culture, the reference to lambs could conjure up memories of a delicious meal but also that phrase could conjure up, in the minds of its hearers, a remembrance of the primary animal that is offered as a sacrifice in the temple.                                                                                                          In the gospel this week it opens with John the Baptist seeing Jesus coming toward him and crying out, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who...

      Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany, (i.e. manifestation), of the Lord as made manifest in vision of a star and the realization of 3 magi that a new and great king has been born in the world.                                                                                                                                   ...