Thursday study group for the Sunday readings

Four years on and the Thursday group continues to gather faithfully each week at our Duns Scotus Bible Centre. The course was originally initiated by the Diocesan Liturgical Commission to prepare lectors to understand and pray the Sunday readings. Eventually as the course continued into its 2^nd and 3^rd years, many other people besides lectors came to join in, including seminarians and priests. 

The course aims to explain the 1^st and 2^nd readings, its thematic connections and spiritual message with each other and with the gospel reading of the coming Sunday liturgy. More importantly, the course studies the much neglected Responsorial Psalm and its role within the biblical themes of that Sunday’s Liturgy of the Word. In so understanding the readings and psalm, this course leads lectors to present and proclaim God’s Word in a manner appropriate to the theme; and liturgical groups can prepare appropriate hymns that carry these biblical themes throughout the liturgy. 

The course is held every Thursday evening at 7pm to 8pm and is held in Cantonese.