SCHOOL OF THE WORD

WELCOME The School of the Word Initiative of Dublin diocese Adult faith formation Return to the person and message of Jesus By means of a return to the sources, especially the Bible, both Old and New Testaments 2

OVERALL PLAN Part 1: the Gospel and the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) Part 2: Jewish Bible in Christian worship (the “Old Testament) Part 3: The early church (Paul, John, Acts, Revelation) 3

PART 1 Module 1: The current context of faith Module 2: The readings at Mass Module 3: What is a gospel? Module 4: The Gospel of the current year Module 5: Mark’s portrait of Jesus Module 6: Discipleship according to Mark 4

SEQUENCE Your experience of the Sunday Readings Before Vatican II Vatican II: The Table of the Word and the Table of the Eucharist Lay-out of the “new” lectionary Ordinary Time in the new lectionary Seasons (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter and Pentecost) Conversation 5

EXPERIENCE: NEXT 3 SUNDAYS 6 Jan 22Jan 29Feb 5 Old Testament Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Repent! Deut 18:15-20 Prophet like Moses Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Human condition Psalm Ps 25 (24) Teach me your ways Ps 95 (94) Listen to his voice Ps 147 (146) He heals the humble New Testament 1Cor 7:29-31 Time growing short 1Cor 7:32-35 Celibacy 1Cor 9:16-19, Free of charge! Gospel Mk 1:14-20 Repent! Mk 1:21-28 Exorcism Mk 1:29-39 Healing and prayer

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EXPERIENCE 8 Your experience as a listener? Your experience as a reader? Your experience of the homily? Questions which arise as a result

BEFORE AND AFTER VATICAN II 9 The Bible before Vatican II The “rediscovery” of the Word The Bible after Vatican II

BEFORE VATICAN II 10 One-year lectionary: Epistle and Gospel All in Latin (Gospel sometimes in English) After PentecostEpistleGospel FourteenthGal 5:16-24Mt 6:24-33 FifteenthGal 6:1-10Lk 7:11-16 SixteenthEph 3:13-21Lk 14:1-122

BEFORE VATICAN II ( ) 11 MatthewMarkLukeJohn Sundays Feasts5138 Total

VATICAN II The treasures of the bible are to be opened up more lavishly, so that richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God's word. In this way a more representative portion of the holy scriptures will be read to the people in the course of a prescribed number of years. Vatican II Constitution on the Liturgy

VATICAN II 13 Rediscovery of Liturgy and the Bible Ecumenical relationships XXth century: the post-war world A new vision of church in the world The Table of Eucharist The Table of the Word

AFTER VATICAN II 14 Sundays and FeastsPre Vatican IIPost Vatican II OT (minus Psalms)250 vv.1%832 vv.3.7% NT (minus Gospels)46111%1063 vv.25.4% Gospels % %

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LAYOUT: ORDINARY TIME 16 A three-year cycle: a Gospel per year Matthew, Mark, and Luke (2013) Continuous reading, story after story What about John? o Christmas, Lent and Easter o In the year of Mark: John 6 (summer)

LAYOUT: ORDINARY TIME 17 The Gospel sets the theme In preparation, the First Reading (usually OT) In response, the psalm “voices” our reception The Second Reading is continuous reading from the Acts or a letter (thematically unconnected).

LAYOUT: ORDINARY TIME 18 FOR EXAMPLE YEAR OF Luke (2013) Advent 1: Mk13; Advent 2: Mk 1. Sundays 3-7: Mark 1-2 Lent: Mk 1, Mk 9, (Jn 2), (Jn 3), (Jn 12), Mk Easter Sunday: Mk 16; Ascension: Mk 16 Corpus Christi: Mk 14 Sunday Mk 4-6 Sunday 17-21: John 6 Sunday : Mk 7-13

LAYOUT: ORDINARY TIME 19 MarkSundaysFeasts 1-2Sundays Advent 2 (1), Baptism (1), Lent 1 (1) 4-6Sundays Sundays Advent 1 (13), Lent 2 (9) 14-15Palm Sunday+ Corpus Christi (14) 16Easter Sunday+ Ascension (16)

LAYOUT: THE FESTIVE SEASONS 20 All three readings are on the same theme The Gospels are chosen topically Even the Gospel is not read consecutively The Second Reading is also not consecutive A good example might be Lent in Year B (2012)

LAYOUT: LENT Old TestamentPsalmNew TestamentGospel Lent 1 Covenant with Noah (Gen 9) He guides the humble (Ps 24) Noah read as baptism (1Pet 3) Good News (Mark 1) Lent 2 Sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22) I trusted (Ps 116)God gave up his Son (Rom 8) This is my Son (Mk 9) Lent 3 The Ten Words (Ex 20) God’s law is perfect (Ps 19) God’s wisdom in Christ (1Cor 1) Temple Action (Jn 2) Lent 4 The Exile (1 Chron 36) Babylon (Ps 137)God’s gift in Christ (Eph 2) God loved the world (Jn 3) Lent 5 New Covenant (Jer 31) A pure heart (Ps 51) Jesus learned to obey (Heb 5) I shall draw all to myself (Jn 12)

LAYOUT OF THE LECTIONARY 22 The challenge of the lectionary to the faithful The challenge of the preacher! Pluses and minuses of the lectionary The Revised Common Lectionary

TASK FOR THE NEXT DAY Read through all of Mark o Only 16 chapters o About 75 minutes Would be great in a group Write down anything you noticed 23

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