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Posted by Deacon Lou Pizzuti, OP on November 09, 2025

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These were recorded some years ago when I was a Subdeacon.

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Early Christianity in its Jewish Context

These books have been useful in understanding our faith in its context Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper The House of the Lord: A Catholic Biblical Theology of God's Temple Presence in the Old and New Testaments Paul, a New Covenant Jew: Rethinking Pauline Theology Dr Brant Pitre has quite a few lectures available for purchase. The website also links to his notes for each of them. The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, by David Daube. Currently not in print, but you can probably find a copy at someplace like abebooks.com

Love God and Love Man.

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journe...

What the World Needs Now is Love

15th Sunday after Pentecost 2 Corinthians 4:6-15 Matt 22:35-46 Love God and Love your neighbor. Jesus tells us that on these two commandments hang the entire law and prophets. Christian tradition considers love to be the greatest of the three theological virtues. And our Ukrainian Catholic Catechism tells us that love is the Substance of the Christian Life. In his first letter to the Corinthians, St Paul describes this love. “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”. Our Catechism says: The most important virtue, born of faith, is the virtue of divine love, which is granted by God to the Christian as a new creation in Christ. The Evangelist John emphasizes that love is the essence of life in God: “Beloved, let us ...

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