Throughout Lent we will be reading and studying the Gospel of Luke.   We will be using the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series.  The Luke commentary is by Michael F. Patella.  Luke is the gospel to be read this year in our current liturgical cycle.

The Book of Revelation is also know as "The Apocalypse". The common text we will be using for our study of the Book of Revelation will be:  The Book of Revelation by Catherine A. Cory.  It is in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series, published by Liturgical Press.

The Letter to the Hebrews has been a classic text for the Christian community to learn and reflect on the Christ-event in the life of the disciple:  Jesus as Word of God, as high priest, as pioneer of our hope.

This beautiful Gospel stands at the beginning of the New Testament canon and has been a source of inspiration and teaching for every generation of Christians since the first century.  Its commanding sweep of Jesus' life from the turbulent and wondrous events of his infancy to his final commissioning of the disciples on a mountaintop in Galilee, its strong emphasis on Jesus' teachings as in the famed Sermon on the Mount, and its orderly structure made it a capital influence on the church.  Yet for all its appeal, Matthew's Gospel can also be strange and baffling to the modern reader.  Learning to understand this Gospel aright is an art we hope to grow in.

Paul is the most important, most controversial and least understood figure in earliest Christianity.  A Jewish persecutor of Jesus’ first followers, he became Christianity’s most visible and provocative advocate, a key agent in extending membership to Gentiles.  We will read a selection of his letters/epistles to gain a better understanding of his distinctive experience of Christ, the issues he faced, his way of thinking and how all these have left an indelible impression on the Christian community.