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Coming Home from Exile

October 28, 2018

Our first reading from the prophet Jeremiah treats of a theme that is basic throughout the Bible: the motif of the return from exile. Like two great hinges on which the Old Testament turns are the stories of Exodus and Exile. Israel finds itself enslaved in Egypt, but God liberates the people; later, the northern tribes are carried off by the Assyrians; and later still, the southern tribes are carried off by the Babylonians. But exile was also a kind of spiritual metaphor, a trope for having wandered far from the Lord. 

Mass Readings

Reading 1 – Jeremiah 31:7-9
Psalm – Psalm 126:1-6
Reading 2 – Hebrews 5:1-6
Gospel – Mark 10:46-52