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Weekly comment on the Revised Common Lectionary as used in The Episcopal Church, from Andrew McGowan of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
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The Vineyard (opens the original)
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The Gospels of these last two months of the liturgical year belong within the mounting drama of Jesus’ last days in Jerusalem. His conflict with the chief priests is not the basis for a theory of Christian-Jewish relations; it is an account, in arguably the most Jewish of the Gospels (Matthew), of the conflict between the Jewish Messiah and the authorities of the time.This week brings us more vineyards, owners, and workers, and again the situation of ancient Palestine provides a general backdrop
By What Authority? Chief Priests and Obedient Sons (opens the original)
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Today’s Gospel brings a dramatic shift of scene and mood. The narrative of Matthew has just now brought Jesus to Jerusalem for the beginning of the dramatic events of his last days. We have skipped over the memorable story of the triumphal entry—read, of course, before Holy Week, palms and all—and it relies on us to contextualize this story. The stakes are quite high: this Gospel and most of those between now and the end of the liturgical year foreground conflict between Jesus and the authoritie
To Each, According To Their Need (opens the original)
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Parables are simple, but not easy. We have noted how Jesus himself taught that parables are offered not to reveal the reign of heaven, but to allow for misunderstanding. It is not that they are complex; parables do not require book-learning, but they leave room for incomprehension for other reasons. Misunderstanding is not ignorance of the answer, but avoidance of it, and may reflect our deepest allegiances. One of the ways misunderstanding can manifest itself is in the confusion between the ima
Divine Accounting: Lamech and Jesus (opens the original)
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The Gospel this week is again from Matthew’s “Community Discourse,” one of the five long sections gathering the teaching of Jesus, and so giving a sort of new Torah. This fourth discourse focuses on the community of believers, and looks beyond the immediate narrative frame to the future life of “the Church” (18:17). At the same time the lectionary is moving through the later part of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, which has a broadly comparable purpose, an extended instruction for life in Christian
As a Gentile and a Tax Collector: Reconciliation and the Reign of Heaven (opens the original)
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Matthew’s Gospel contains five blocks of Jesus’ teaching, which are probably meant to suggest the five books of Law given by Moses, presenting Jesus as a new law-giver and a new prophet to guide Israel. The Sermon on the Mount was first (chapters 5-7), then instructions about Mission (10), then the Parables (13); this week’s Gospel is part of the fourth (18), and concerns life in Community. A fifth, on the End times, is still to come. The disciples have just asked Jesus, in a section we do not r
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