The Church contemplates the mystery of the Word made flesh on Christmas.  Below is a mindmap of the readings for the different masses for Christmas beginning with the December 24 Vigil Mass.  Click on the image for a bigger view.

How does one relate the Sunday readings with one another? While it is not always advisable to connect one reading to another in a sermon, it can very well be done for purposes of meditation and prayer. In fact, I would recommend this latter as an "exercise" for fixing one's "gaze"on the mystery of Christ. The fruits this would bear for the practise of the lectio divina would be obvious to the practioner. Augustine himself built up his robust knowledge of Scriptures by a similar exercise.

Below is a mind map of selected themes from the liturgy of Passion Sunday (Year A). Click on the thumbnail below for a bigger view of the image.

We are now on the third Sunday of Lent (Year A), and as we progress towards Holy Week, I would like to give a summary of our Lenten journey this year by offering some reflections on the Sunday readings for the five Sundays. A longer explanation of each of the Gospel readings together with some points for reflection are offered at Biblista.NET. Here, we will make a run through of the readings and try to determine a guiding thought that guides the liturgy towards Easter.

The last leg of the journey to Jerusalem is relatively well used in the liturgy (For an outline of the passages, go here.). 

 

I have been asked for articles about the Catholic view of Scriptures and how to read them fruitfully. I sifted through the posts I've made at Otium Sanctum and here are the articles that I think would answer the need.

The following three articles are about the Catholic view of Scriptures. I would recommend that the description given about the "Word of God" be taken seriously since it is the correct way of understanding the phrase. Non-Catholics tend to regard Christianity as a religion of the book. It is not. And the reason is primarily because Christianity is a religion of "persons", not of a book.