Category: 10Ordinary

  • Abolish or Fulfill? Abolish or Fulfill?

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Matthew 5:17-19 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. There are no answers in this blog post. Some of us will hear a sermon…

  • It only takes a pinch…

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Barnabas, ApostleTuesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3 Mathew 5:13-16 You are the salt of the earth…We are used to hearing this phrase, “salt of the earth” as it might refer to good, solid farmers, or blue-collar laborers, Midwestern voters, etc, salt of…

  • The yoke’s on Elisha…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:19-21  Matthew 5:33-37 Cumque venisset Elias ad eum, misit pallium suum super illum qui statim relictis bobus cucurrit post Eliam. Eli’jah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him and [Elisha] left the oxen, and ran after Eli’jah. The call…

  • Is there someone else we can talk to?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:9A, 11-16 Matthew 5:27-32 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis… Ego autem dico vobis…  You have heard it said of old…  But I say to you… If you come to the New Testament looking for a relief from those pesky rules in…

  • Lord, it’s hard to be humble.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:41-46  Matthew 5:20-26 Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altare, et ibi recordatus fueris quia frater tuus habet aliquid adversum te : relinque ibi munus tuum ante altare, et vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo : et tunc veniens offeres munus tuum. So…

  • Brief thought on Elijah: Pick.

    TZzztztztzzzztztzztzttztzztzt CHUSHPOW ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church Wednesday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:20-39 Matthew 5:17-19 Usquequo claudicatis in duas partes? Si Dominus est Deus, sequimini eum : si autem Baal, sequimini illum. How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the…

  • This sucks worse for me than for you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Genesis 3:9-15  2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Omnia enim propter vos : ut gratia abundans, per multos in gratiarum actione, abundet in gloriam Dei. For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory…