Welcoming the Word (Yr C)

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Welcoming the Word (Yr C)​ - Verna Holyhead, S.G.S.
In this volume of weekly reflections on the Sunday Lectionary for Year C, Verna Holyhead moves deftly between the Old and New Testament readings, providing theological context and tying the texts to contemporary concerns. Rich in references to poetry and history, these reflections are infused with the spirit of the Rule of St. Benedict, which invites Christians to take the two Testaments as the truest guides for human life. The supplementary series of conversations between the Liturgy of the Word and the Rule extend the weekly reflection. As a sourcebook for pastoral ministry or a reference for personal or communal reflection, this volume will assist believers who desire to engage more deeply with the Word.

Verna Holyhead, S.G.S. is an Australian Sister of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St. Benedict. She leads retreats, lectures, and writes, with an emphasis on biblical scholarship, liturgical insight, and pastoral challenge.

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"Verna Holyhead's hope that this will strike a tiny flame is too modest. Short, pithy introductions to each season, Sunday-by-Sunday commentaries bristling with fresh images that throw scripture and contemporary experience together to converse with one another, footnotes that hint at the depths of scholarship that ground this most readable book all these threaten to start a conflagration among faithful hearers of the Word! A final chapter, With the Gospel as Our Guide, brings the Benedictine spirit into the conversation as yet another lens for the firelight by which we read. Welcoming the Word is a pearl worth the price. "
-Genevieve Glen, O.S.B. Abbey of St. Walburga Editor for Daily Offices--Magnificat

"Verna Holyhead's Welcoming the Word is an elegant complement to the liturgical readings of Year C. It provides us with a frame which brings out the deeper artistry of the biblical selections used at the Sunday Eucharist. The author draws on liturgical and scriptural knowledge, poetry, common experience and personal reflection to offer a counterpoint to the familiar texts and to start us off on fresh avenues of meditation. This wise and mellow book will become a valued companion as we journey through the Church's year, opening up the riches of the liturgy, and calling us to a more fruitful listening and a fuller preactice. "
-Fr. Michael Casey, OCSO, Tarrawarra, Abbey, Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia

""By presenting a grand sweep of the literature of ancient Israel, Dianne Bergant offers readers a marvelous introduction to studying the Hebrew Bible. Because she is both an outstanding scholar and popular teacher, Dianne Bergant offers an overview of Israel's sacred history that is equally insightful and accessible. Readers will be enlightened and elated by this synopsis of Israel's inspired writings, which are the inheritance of both Judaism and Christianity.""
-Stephen J. Binz, biblical scholar and author of Threshold Bible Study

"If it is especially in the sacred liturgy where the Church offers to the faithful the bread of life found in the Scriptures, as Vatican Council II taught us, we need help in breaking the life-giving bread. The thoughtful worshiper at each Sunday's Mass depends on a well-prepared lector and a gifted homilist. These are precisely the readers who will benefit from Verna Holyhead's reclaiming of the Liturgy of the Word, together with parish groups in Lent and Advent that traditionally ponder and pray over the Sunday texts. Here every reading in the Sundays of the year of Luke comes alive with her impeccable grasp of the biblical author's intention coupled with a sense of readers life situation. Her sureness of touch arises from long experience in mediating the inspired Word to people hungry for that bread of life."
-Robert C. Hill, Australian Catholic University

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Pages: 224
Size: 6" x 9"
Code: 1834
ISBN: 9780814618349 

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