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Naked Shall I Return There: Job's Response to His Misfortunes

Artist: Gustave Doré

 "Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb,
and naked shall I return there.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away
blessed be the name of the LORD!”

Says Job after he lost everything he had, including his children.

Today's First Reading (San Lorenzo Ruiz, 9/28/2020) is from the Book of Job (1:6-22).

The book is "a crowning point of the history of world literature" wrote the late Old Testament scholar Fr. Luis Alonso Schökel. It is "the finest expression of the Hebrew poetic genius" and so "it must also be accorded a place among the greatest masterpieces of world literature" (Brittanica.com).

In May, during the lockdown, I recorded some of my class lectures on Job (8 sessions). Let me share here the lecture that deals with the First Reading.

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Fr. Randy is the current Parish Priest and Rector of the Sacred Heart Parish Shrine in Quezon City, Philippines. He is also the Director of the Biblical Apostolate of the Diocese of Cubao and the coordinator for the Biblical Apostolate of the SVD Philippine Central Province. He teaches Biblical courses at the Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City. He holds a doctorate from the Ateneo de Manila University (PhD, 2015) and from the Loyola School of Theology (STD, 2014); Licentiate in Sacred Scripture (SSL, 1999) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome); an M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the Divine Word Seminary  (1995). He served as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines (CBAP), chairperson of the Tagaytay Religious Association (TRA), Dean of Studies (Divine Word Seminary), and editor of the academic journal  Diwa: Studies in Philosophy and Theology. He founded the Certificate in Theological Studies (CTS) at the Divine Word Seminary and the SVD Tagaytay Alternative Learning System (SVD-ALS), an educational program for the out-of-school youth. Visit also his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/biblicalapostolateph

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