Patricia Datchuck Sanchez's Books

Accessible background and insights on each scripture text in the three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. An invaluable resource for preachers, lectors, liturgical musicians, catechists and more.

As believers, we celebrate many transitions in our lives: from original sin to new life, from single life to married live, and from this life to death and everlasting life. Patricia Datchuk Sánchez has written a commentary on each of the more than 100 scripture selections we use to celebrate these passages of our lives—those graced moments we know as baptisms, weddings and funerals. The commentaries are meant to be a help for those who minister to others when these moments are celebrated: those who prepare the families to celebrate, those who proclaim the Word, those who preach the Word, and those who break open the Word in song and celebration.

Formed in the Word is an attempt to bring home to the people in the pew, in the subway, and in the marketplace the significance and the mandate of the gospel, particularly the Beatitudes. For many, the Beatitudes appear to express an impossible ideal, an unattainable ethic. This book will perhaps make the Beatitudes more understandable and practicable for believers on the brink of the third Christian millennium. Writing in an easy-to-read style, Sanchez shares significant insights about the Beatitudes and their meaning in our lives, with focused questions for discussion at the end of each section. An excellent resource for adults hungry for a palatable understanding of the challenge Scripture presents them today.

The commentaries are meant to be a help for those who minister to others when these moments are celebrated: those who prepare the families to celebrate, those who proclaim the Word, those who preach the Word, and those who break open the Word in song and celebration.

Accessible background and insights on each scripture text in the three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. An invaluable resource for preachers, lectors, liturgical musicians, catechists and more.

Book's by Patricia Datchuck Sanchez

The Word We Celebrate

The Word We Celebrate

The Passages We Celebrate

The Passages We Celebrate

Formed in the Word

Formed in the Word

The Passages We Celebrate

The Passages We Celebrate

The Word We Celebrate

The Word We Celebrate

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