25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)
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Reconsidering Proverbs 31
Proverbs 31 used to be a standard at funerals. That was before we realized that womanly virtue meant more than giving a husband bragging rites in the city gates. I use to think it my pastoral duty to root out both masculine and feminine stereotypes in liturgy, hymnody and scripture. Now I’m not so sure.
Sunday, September 23, 2012: Proverbs 31:10-31
Enough water has passed under the bridge to allow us to take a second look at the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31.
Wisdom works: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37
The crucified and resurrected Christ becomes the standard against which to measure all accounts of wisdom.
Missing the resurrection (Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; Psalm 1; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19)
History is written by the winners, and Judas didn't win.
Seeing things: Mark 9:30-37
Jesus sees something the disciples do not even know they are missing.
Counting diamonds: Mark 9:30-37
The Roman custom of lifting a newborn infant probably underlies Jesus’s symbolic action in Mark 9.