Verna Holyhead, SGS (1933–2011), Australian Sister of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St. Benedict, wrote with an emphasis on biblical scholarship, liturgical insight, and pastoral challenge. She is the author of the three-volume collection Welcoming the Word in Year A, B, and C, published by Liturgical Press.
While focusing on the three readings for each Sunday, [Holyhead’s]
rich comments weave the biblical message together with reflections
that can lead to preaching or solid spiritual reading.The Bible
Today
Welcoming the Word in Year B: Sowing the Seed is a treasure. It
offers us the fruit of Sister Verna’s deeply prayerful and informed
reading of the Scriptures, leavened with insight from poetry, art,
the spiritual masters, and contemporary prophets. It invites us to
engage imaginatively with both word and world. This book will be a
rich resource not only for homilists but for all believers wanting
to worship well. It certainly sows seeds that will yield a
plentiful harvest in receptive soil. I recommend it highly.Tom
Knowles, SSS, St Francis’ Church, Melbourne, Australia
We will welcome this third volume in the series of Verna Holyhead’s
beautiful reflections on the Sunday readings—Welcoming the Word in
Year B: Sowing the Seed. There is no doubt that what she writes
will indeed help us to Welcome the Word each Sunday. She writes
with great insight and freshness and her work indicates her deep
knowledge and love of the Word and there is a rich personal
dimension to her work. This volume will help us to sow the Word
more deeply in our hearts so that the yield from our prayer and
reflections will indeed be a hundredfold in our lives. Her
conversations between the Sunday Lectionary and The Rule of
Benedict add to the originality of the text and the inclusion of
the Scriptural index adds to the treasure we will find in this
book.Margaret Malone, SGS, Kardinia, Australia
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