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Ordinary Time · Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C

Isaiah 66:10-14c

Nursed and Comforted by Mother Jerusalem

July 9, 2028

Nursing Madonna (Madonna del Latte), Antonio da Correggio
Nursing Madonna (Madonna del Latte), Antonio da Correggio, c. 1524Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Correggio's Virgin feeding the child, painted with the soft modelling and intimate scale he used for private devotional pictures.As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you: Isaiah 66 uses the nursing image deliberately, and this is it.Antonio da CorreggioA painter from Parma who dissolved ceilings into open sky and invented effects of light that the Baroque spent a century catching up with.Museum of Fine Arts, BudapestHungary's collection of international art, built on the Esterházy holdings bought by the state in 1870.Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Roman Lectionary
GospelLuke 10:1-12, 17-20Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 orLuke 10:1-9Lk 10:1-9
Second ReadingGal. 6:14-18Gal 6:14-18
First ReadingIsa. 66:10-14cIs 66:10-14c
Responsorial PsalmPs. 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 (1)Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 (1)

Overview & Insights

"As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you." (Isaiah 66:13)

The prophet calls the exiles to rejoice with Jerusalem, pictured as a nursing mother whose breasts will satisfy and comfort her children, as God promises to extend peace like a river and comfort the people like a mother comforts her child.

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Commentary

Isaiah 66 CommentaryIs 66 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse-by-verse treatment of Jerusalem's restoration and comfort.

Isaiah 66:10 CommentariesIs 66:10 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentary on the call to rejoice with Jerusalem.

Isaiah 66 (Barnes' Notes)Is 66 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight

Detailed notes on the maternal imagery of comfort.

Commentary on Isaiah 66:10-14Commentary on Is 66:10-14 Working Preacher

Reads the passage as God ending a world of ruin with gladness.

Isaiah 66:10 InterlinearIs 66:10 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew interlinear for the maternal-comfort imagery.

Background & Word Study

Isaiah Overview (Ch. 40-66)Is Overview (Ch. 40-66) BibleProject

Places this closing oracle within Isaiah's vision of restoration.

Worship & Prayers

Proper 9, Year C The Lectionary Page

Full set of propers and collect for the closely matching Sunday.

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