John W. Martens 
The Word on the Street, Year B [EPUB ebook] 
Sunday Lectionary Reflections

Contents

Preface

First Sunday of Advent:
Daily Distractions

Second Sunday of Advent:
The Comfort of Hope

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Full of Grace

Third Sunday of Advent:
Waiting on Hope

Fourth Sunday of Advent:
Fulfillment of Hope

The Nativity of the Lord:
God Among Us

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph:
Children of Hope

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God:
The Mother of Jesus

The Epiphany of the Lord:
Journey of Hope

The Baptism of the Lord:
Spirit of Justice

First Sunday of Lent:
In the Wilderness

Second Sunday of Lent:
Hearing God Speak

Third Sunday of Lent:
God’s Word for Us

Fourth Sunday of Lent:
The Weakness of Sin

Fifth Sunday of Lent:
Following the Servant

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion:
A Little Thing

Easter Sunday:
An Empty Tomb

Second Sunday of Easter:
One Heart and Soul

Third Sunday of Easter:
Our Witnesses

Fourth Sunday of Easter:
The Shepherd’s Love

Fifth Sunday of Easter:
Disciples I Fear

Sixth Sunday of Easter:
Same as It Ever Was?

The Ascension of the Lord:
What Time It Is

Seventh Sunday of Easter:
The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Sunday:
The Spirit of Truth Comes

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity:
Adopted Into the Family of God

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ:
Bread of Heaven

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Women Together

The Solemnity of All Saints:
Calling All Sinners

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Finding a Friend

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Following a Friend

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Tell Me the Good News

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Work of the Kingdom

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Joy of Wholeness

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Same Old, Same Old

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
A Time to Fast

Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Human Touch

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Life Now and Then

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Kingdom Unusual

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
New Creation

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
No Delight in Death

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Transformed by the Messiah

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Where Do You Live?

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Shepherd Us

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
No One Should Have Nothing

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Hunger for the Truth

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
A Sense of God

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Food of Wisdom

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Subjects, Not Objects

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Just Do It

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Be Strong; Do Not Fear

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Things of God

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Greatest

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Challenge of the Word

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Little Children of the Word

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Spirit of Wisdom

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Suffering Servant

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
The Sum of Mercy

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Hear, O Israel

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Widows and Scribes

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Now or Then

The Solemnity of Christ the King:
King of All

John W. Martens, Ph D, is professor of theology and director of the Centre for Christian Engagement at St. Mark's College at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. For four years he wrote the Scripture column "The Word" at America Magazine. These columns have been published in three volumes by Liturgical Press, The Word on the Street, Years A, B, and C.  He has also written extensively on children in early Christianity, including ‘Let the Little Children Come to Me’: Children and Childhood in Early Christianity (2009), with Cornelia Horn, and Children and Methods: Listening To and Learning From Children in the Biblical World (2020), with Kristine Henriksen Garroway.