Ponder

Mahri Leonard-Fleckman is assistant professor of Hebrew Bible in the Religious Studies Department at the College of the Holy Cross. She is a contributor to Give Us This Day, the co-author of Ruth in the Wisdom Commentary series, and the author of The House of David: Between Political Formation and Literary Revision (Fortress Press). Leonard-Fleckman has years of experience as a lectionary-based Bible study facilitator at her home parish in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

Contents

   Acknowledgments   xi
   Introduction   1
   How to Use this Study—Groups   11
   How to Use this Study—Individuals   13
   About the Sunday Readings   15
   Navigating the Church Year   17

Season of Advent
   First Sunday of Advent   19
   Second Sunday of Advent   24
   Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)   29
   Fourth Sunday of Advent   34

Season of Christmas
   The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)   39
   The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph   45
   Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God   50
   The Epiphany of the Lord   55
   The Baptism of the Lord   60

Season of Lent
   First Sunday of Lent   65
   Second Sunday of Lent   71
   Third Sunday of Lent   76
   Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)   83
   Fifth Sunday of Lent   90
   Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord   97 

Season of Easter
   Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord   102
   Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy)   107
   Third Sunday of Easter   112
   Fourth Sunday of Easter   119
   Fifth Sunday of Easter   124
   Sixth Sunday of Easter   130
   The Ascension of the Lord   135
   Seventh Sunday of Easter   140
   Pentecost Sunday   145

Ordinary Time
   The Most Holy Trinity   150
   The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)   155
   Second Sunday in Ordinary Time   160
   Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sunday of the Word of God)   165
   Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time   170
   Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time   175
   Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time   180
   Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   186
   Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time   191
   Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time   196
   Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   201
   Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   205
   Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time   210
   Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   215
   Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   220
   Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   225
   Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   231
   Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   236 
   Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   241
   Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time   246
   Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time   251
   Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time   255
   Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time   259
   Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time   263
   Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time   268
   Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time   273
   Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time   278
   Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   283
   Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time   288
   Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time   293
   Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time   298
   Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time   302
   Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time   307
   Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time   312
   Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe   318