one minute videos unpacking one word of the Catholic Sunday Mass lectionary readings

Letter to the Hebrews - Year B (Lectionary)

Easter Season – Year B (Lectionary)

Easter Sunday “Witness”

2nd Sunday of Easter “Power”

3rd Sunday of Easter “Repent”

4th Sunday of Easter “Cornerstone”

5th Sunday of Easter “Bold”

6th Sunday of Easter “Baptism”

7th Sunday of Easter “Office” 

Summer Solemnities – Year B

Pentecost Sunday “Pentecost” 

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity “Abba”

Corpus Christi “Covenant”

Ordinary Time – Year B (Gospel of Mark)

10th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Blasphemy”

11th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Kingdom”

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Be Still”

13th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Immediately”

14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Prophet”

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Authority”

22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Pharisees”

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) “Decapolis”

24th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) Mark 8:33 “Satan”

25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) Mark 9:31 “Son of Man”

26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) Mark 9:42 “Sin” (or “Stumble”)

Ordinary Time - Year B (Letter to the Ephesians)

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B (John 6: Jesus says Eat!)

In John 6:54-58, the original 1st century Greek reveals an interesting shift in how Jesus tells us to eat his flesh, the true Bread of Life. 

27th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year B
Genesis 2:18 - God makes a "helper" or "partner" for man, called "woman"....what's special about her?

Sometimes people have read Genesis 2:18 as a way of describing woman’s relationship to man as a “lesser,” a sort of assistant or weaker partner. The original Hebrew, however, reveals the divine strength that woman images in reflecting God in the world. 

Solemnity of Christ the King - Year B
John 18:37 "I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

Join guest-host Dr. Marcus Peter, Director of Theology for Ave Maria Radio and Catholic Biblical School substitute teacher as he shows how the truth that Jesus speaks of carries a divine magnitude beyond merely being “correct.”