Comments on: Cycle C 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Ordinary 72 https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: SES https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27447 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:00:10 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27447 Thank you, Mary. That is interesting information given that the author of the reflection I referred to states the following in his reflection, “What is the significance of Jesus appointing seventy disciples to the ministry of the word? Seventy was a significant number in biblical times. Moses chose seventy elders to help him in the task of leading the people through the wilderness. The Jewish Sanhedrin, the governing council for the nation of Israel, was composed of seventy members. In Jesus’ times seventy was held to be the number of nations throughout the world.”

]]> By: Mary Ortwein https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27439 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:40:24 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27439 About the 70 and the 72: This information from THE JEROME BIBLICAL COMMENTARY: ” Seventy-two: This number is read in manuscripts P-75, P-45, B, and , but seventy is the number found in other manuscripts, among them S, A, C, and W. [These are all early manuscripts of scriptures.] The evidence for the two numbers is about equal. Commentators often detect a symbolical meaning in either number, sseeing connections between the “70 disciples” and the 70 nations in the table of Genesis 10, the 70 elders who assisted Moses, or the name by which the common Greek translation of the Old Testament is known, the Septuagint–or again, between the “72 disciples” and the 72 nations of Genesis 10 found in other translations [including the Septuagint], the 72 translators of the Septuagint, of the multiple of 6 x 12 (number of Israelite tribes). But all of this is fanciful.”
Mary Ortwein

]]> By: Jen https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27435 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:57:35 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27435 Beautiful reflection,Mary! Thank you

]]> By: SES https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27434 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:44:27 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27434 Mary – In another daily reflection, which is not necessarily Catholic even though the author grew up Catholic and you can pick up on that, the author says the number of disciples that Jesus sent is 70. He quotes from the Common Bible: Revised Standard Version of the Bible (copyright 1973), and Ignatius Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (copyright 2006) by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

Any thoughts on why the number of ’70’ (and not ’72’) would be referenced in those Bibles, granted that they do not appear to be Catholic Bibles?

]]> By: SES https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27433 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:28:48 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27433 Stay blessed, Mary. Thank you.

]]> By: Lon M https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27432 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 13:47:11 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27432 Mary, thank you for bringing all three readings “together”. Your reflections are always instructional, enlightening, and inspiring. Happy Independence Day to all!

]]> By: JME https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27431 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 12:58:44 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27431 Thank you Mary, excellent as always. Also thank you for the sisters of life site

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/cycle-c-14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-the-ordinary-72/#comment-27430 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 12:33:13 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=74488#comment-27430 Thank you Mary. Not unlike the 72 you continue to bring us the good news always meeting us on our level…on our doorsteps. My hope is you won’t look back to shake the dust from your feet as the words of our Lord become contagious. Peace with you my sister.

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