Second Reading

Detail from Corita Kent's
Commentary on Revelation 21:1-6

Have you ever felt like starting over? Maybe you have [...]

Detail from The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine's Monastery at Sinai, a 6th-century encaustic icon.
Commentary on Revelation 7:9-17

To enter the book of Revelation is to step into [...]

Detail from Duccio di Buoninsegna's painting
Commentary on Revelation 5:11-14

Throughout the letters to the seven churches (Revelation 2–3), John, [...]

Detail from Giovanni Antonio Galli's
Commentary on Revelation 1:4-8

On the second Sunday of Easter, the opening epistolary greetings [...]

Art image of the stone rolled away from the tomb
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:19-26

For the joyous, celebratory day of Easter, the lectionary returns [...]

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Commentary on Hebrews 10:16-25

As we enter this text from the letter to the [...]

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Commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

This holy day, Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the [...]

Photo of a palm leaf
Commentary on Philippians 2:5-11

This passage raises several questions: What does it mean for [...]

Detail from a fresco at Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy) in Évora, Portugal.
Commentary on Philippians 3:4b-14

Using his own life as a paradigm,1 Paul presents us [...]

Testing in the wilderness - sun beating down on rocky outcropping
Commentary on Romans 10:8b-13

The several exegetical challenges in the passage itself and in its context need not divert [...]