Bible Study Leftover
Our meeting today was hosted by one of our members who is temporarily in a nursing home. A private room was provided for our group of eight, and we were served an elegant luncheon beofre we began our meeting. We are all old hands so the transition from lunching mode to discussion mode was seamless. The readings we considered were tose of the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, B Cycle. The mysterious story of Job left us a bit uncomprehending, but the cure of Peter’s mother-in-law seemed to evoke the most comment and interest. It morphed into considerations of the role of women in Biblical times, the Middle East today, and our own American society. There seemed to emerge a sense that long entrenched soical patterns dictate much of our reality andmake it less than likely that much progress is to be made in bettering the human situation. Yes, we are lost without a Savior.
