Preparing for the Mass - Februaury 8, 2009

First - for the children.

Now for us big kids:

This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Get to know the readings.
 
Reflections for this Sunday can be found at The Center for Liturgy Sunday.
Here is an example of what you can find there (author Reginald H. Fuller, The Word of God for the Church Today):

"The Book of Job is rarely used in the Lectionary, so a word of introduction is in order. Job belongs to the third group of Old Testament books, called the “Writings.” . . . . . 

Job is led to wrestle with the problem of suffering.

Suffering can no longer be interpreted as it was in Deuteronomy, namely, as a direct punishment for sin, for Job has been righteous and has maintained his integrity. What Job has to learn in the end is that a person’s righteousness gives him or her no claim upon God.

The book closes with a prose epilogue in which the fortunes of Job are restored to him. The Book of Job can best be understood as a forerunner of the Pauline doctrine of justification by the grace of God alone."

You may want to read the entire Scriptures in Depth reflection. It is quite enlightening.