Questions – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Discussion Questions related to Sunday Readings featuring Word-Sunday, Vince Contreras, RCIA Seekers’ Michael Marchall, RCL Benziger, and Anne Osdieck.
Discussion Questions related to Sunday Readings featuring Word-Sunday, Vince Contreras, RCIA Seekers’ Michael Marchall, RCL Benziger, and Anne Osdieck.
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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
How do you know you’re making the right choice?
Do we seek God or do we give into the allures of the world? At times, the choice can be clear-cut; at times, the choice can be murky. If we seek God’s will, the advice of the wise and the peace of conscience over the passions of desire, we can be assured that we made the best choice we possibly could. And, in most cases, we made the right choice.
How do you seek God’s will over your own? How do you seek the wise in your life? How successful have you been in saying “No” to your desires?
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
1. Jesus is critical of the Pharisees’ type of righteousness, which focuses on externals. They make sure everyone sees them when they fast, pray on street corners, wash hands, etc. How do these things relate to the inner Spirit of the law? How do they relate to loving God and neighbor?
2. In his homily, Pope Francis warns against an excessive rigidity. How does “going beyond the law” in order to love God and neighbor surpass the “righteousness” of the scribes and Pharisees?
Taking his cue from Jesus’ warning to his disciples that unless their righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees they will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, Pope Francis stressed the importance of Christian realism. Jesus, he said, asks us to go beyond the laws and love God and neighbor, stressing that whoever is angry with their brother will be liable to judgement.
Pope Francis urged his listeners to recall how Jesus’s request for generosity and holiness is all about going forward and always looking out beyond ourselves. This, he explained, frees us from the rigidity of the laws and from an idealism that harms us.
Mass at Santa Marta
June 9, 2016
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)
EXCERPT: Take a look at some of today’s trends: the value of life (and its contradiction: abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide); the value of the family (and its contradiction: the gender ideology); and other “hot button topics.” If Jesus were to speak against all of the contractions today, would you blame him for his coming to abolish the law? How would you react? What would you support? Would you listen to the law of the world? or to the law of love that Jesus talks about?