Table of Contents

Contents
Ordinary Time C   1
Practical Scheme of the Gospel According to Luke   2
The Lectionary Texts   7
The Sequences of the Sundays in Ordinary Time C   8
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Sign of Cana   11
From the Third to the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time   22
     Third Sunday: Jesus Christ, the Amen of God   24
     Fourth Sunday: Christ, the Sign of Contradiction   28
     Fifth Sunday: Jesus Alone Is Master and Lord   35
From the Sixth to the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time   40
     Sixth Sunday: The Paradoxical Happiness of Jesus' Disciples ...   41
     Seventh Sunday: To Love Without Measure   52
     Eighth Sunday: The Zeal of the Disciples   60
From the Ninth to the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   66
     Ninth Sunday: A Boundless Salvation   68
     Tenth Sunday: "Raise Yourself from the Dead"   76
     Eleventh Sunday: Salvation, Forgiveness of Sin   84
From the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   92
     Twelfth Sunday: Christ's Passion and His Followers   94
     Thirteenth Sunday: Nomads Following Christ   102
     Fourteenth Sunday: Messengers of the Gospel   112
From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   120
     Fifteenth Sunday: What Must One Do to Share in Eternal Life?   122
     Sixteenth Sunday: Welcoming the Lord   130 
     Seventeenth Sunday: Prayer, the Will of God, and the Gift of the Spirit   138
From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time   147
     Eighteenth Sunday: To Grow Rich in What Matters to God   148
     Nineteenth Sunday: He Will Come Like a Thief   157
     Twentieth Sunday: Not Peace but Division   165
     Twenty-first Sunday: The First Will Be Last   174
From the Twenty-second to the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time   184
     Twenty-second Sunday: God Raises the Humble   185
     Twenty-third Sunday: Take Up the Cross   195
     Twenty-fourth Sunday: Entering into the Joy of the Forgiving God   206
The Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Sundays in Ordinary Time   217
     Twenty-fifth Sunday: Shrewd Stewards of God's Gifts   218
     Twenty-sixth Sunday: The Poor Man at the Banquet Doorway . .  229
The Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Sundays in Ordinary Time   239
     Twenty-seventh Sunday: Lord, Increase the Faith of Your Servant   240
     Twenty-eighth Sunday: Go and Give Thanks   250
From the Twenty-ninth to the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time   258
     Twenty-ninth Sunday: Pray Always, Without Losing Heart   260
     Thirtieth Sunday: The Prayer of the Humble Breaks Through .. .  270
     Thirty-first Sunday: The One Who Comes for Sinners   279
The Thirty-second and Thirty-third Sundays in Ordinary Time   290
     Thirty-second Sunday: Children of the Living God   293
     Thirty-third Sunday: Awaiting the Day of the Lord   304
The Thirty-fourth (Last) Sunday in Ordinary Time: Christ the King   314
Conclusion   327
Notes   331