Sundays, November 27 through December 18
9:30 AM in Draesel Hall

Or join us on Zoom at online at https://zoom.us/j/8753617165 (for the password, type the numerals for eighteen ninety-nine, two thousand nineteen. No comma or space.)

With Advent, we begin a new Liturgical Year, with this year’s focus on Matthew’s Gospel. On December 11, we will be discussing the Beatitudes and the Lord’s Prayer in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel according to Matthew. The Sermon on the Mount can be downloaded HERE. For the weeks of the course it is suggested one read the entire gospel as one would a novella and then slowly read the gospel with the commentary Matthew for Everyone by N.T. Wright.

We will study Matthew’s parables; the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount (do we really have to love our enemies?); and the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the miracle of Jesus feeding an enormous crowd with a few loaves of bread and some fish (how do you explain the inexplicable?) During the four Sundays as we read the Gospel to learn about Christ, we will also be learning how to pray Scripture - to spiritually encounter Jesus, the living Word, who meets us through our spiritual reading of Scripture and uses the words of Scripture to draw us into a transforming relationship.