Month: June 2022

  • Validate Me (pt 2)

    The Readings for the 11th Friday, Tempus per Annum 1 Kings 21:1-16 Matthew 6:19-23 For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. Matthew 6:21 (NABRE) HEART IS ONE Of the most important words in the Bible. Especially in the Hebrew Scriptures – and therefore in the teachings of Jesus – it is…

  • To Kingdom Come

    The Readings for the 11th Thursday, Tempus Per Annum Sirach 48:1-14 Matthew 6:7-15 Thy kingdom come Matthew 6:10 (AV) MINDFUL THAT the original texts (in Hebrew and Greek) had no punctuation, I want to challenge you to read the Lord’s prayer here with a colon instead of a line break, comma, or full stop. Thy…

  • Validate Me

    The Readings for the 11th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. Matthew 6:2b (NABRE) MANY RECENT CONVERSATIONS have been around the topic of seeking validation. Your host became aware of this issue leaving his job history (of nearly 25 years)…

  • The Perfect Name

    The Readings for the 11th Tuesday, Tempus Per Annum (C2) 1 Kings 21:17-29 Matthew 5:43-48 So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 (NABRE) BE PERFECT JUST as Our Father is Perfect. Father’s Day is this coming Sunday. Are you able to be anything like your father? I mean in some…

  • Anyone who asks

    The Readings for the Memorial of Anthony of Padua, Doctor (C2) 1 Kings 21:1-16 Matthew 5:38-42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow. Matthew 5:42 (NABRE) THIS IS A HARD saying for anyone living in a city or for anyone who works…

  • The Christian & Identity – Pt 3

    THE PREVIOUS POST closed with a list of three options that apply in all cultural choices: individualized nominalism (one makes it up on their own), emergent nominalism, (one makes it up with the help of others), or objective reality (one gets to make up reactions to something that existed before one got here). The first…

  • The Christian & Identity – Pt 2

    The Christian & Identity – Pt 2

    ONCE UPON A TIME, men  —  at least  —  who acted outside of the norms of Christian culture and chose to engage in their sexual desires for other men were called Sodomites. For this reason, the present author has been accused of using the term uncritically without considering it, or “unpacking” it. On the contrary,…

  • The Christian & Identity – Pt 1

    The Christian & Identity – Pt 1

    THE STORY OF SODOM and Gomorrah will be familiar to you, if only because you have been exposed to the horror story version or the sexualized version in some movie or TV show. You may also know the Bible Version in Genesis 18 and 19. Americans (religious or not) are prone to taking brief passages…

  • Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Memorial of St Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs Readings for 7th Friday after Easter (C2) Acts 25:13b-21 John 21:15-19 He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” John 21:19 OUR LORD SAYS TO St Peter, “Follow me.” It…

  • One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    Readings for 7th Thursday after Easter (C2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 …so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me,…