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Abraham and the Law

If we demand Paul to present his arguments according to the standard and procedure today, it would be unreasonable. I am not familiar with how the Jewish rabbis argue. Perhaps Paul, a Pharisee, followed the contemporary …
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila (Year B)

We are reading Romans 3 today. I suspect that the readers of this epistle were mainly Jews because Paul suddenly quoted extensively from the Psalms and Isaiah (See the Appendix). Frankly speaking, reading Romans 3 is not…
Feast of St. Matthew, the Evangelist

Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Matthew, one of the Twelve and an Evangelist. It is well known that he was a tax-collector before he became Jesus' disciple. He was despised and hated by his fe…
13th Ordinary Sunday (Year B)

Fr. Andrew Kim came all the way from Korea to celebrate the ordination anniversary mass of the three priests he had worked with one and a half years ago. He was excited and felt very much at home in our parish. This youn…
Did the concept of the Blessed Trinity appear in Genesis?

The Genesis story today is very appropriate for the occasion. And the LORD appeared to him (Abraham) by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and …
How do you encourage people to be generous?

I did not study Communication, Mass Media etc. in my university time. But I am always fascinated to see how people working in the advertising industry can come up with brilliant ideas to persuade people to buy the produc…
Miscellaneous problems

The story of Tobit came down to us only in Greek translations. The Hebrew original was lost, probably in wars, in exiles etc. However, there are variations in these Greek translations. Before the invention of printing, s…
Collection of Prooftexts

We continue reading Paul's preaching in a synagogue on Sabbath in Antioch of Pisidia during his first missionary journey. It seems that Christians have collected, over the years, a set of Old Testament quotations to prov…
To kill a religion

Peter and John won hands down the first confrontation with the Jewish leaders. Though Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and was very eloquent in his defence, they won for other reasons. Peter's eloquence was vividly…
Wisdom of Ben Sirach

Among the books of the Old Testament in the Catholic version of the Bible, the Hebrew texts of seven of them no longer exist. These books and a few more came down from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew …