Category: 12Ordinary

  • Hearts Like Mom’s

    Hearts Like Mom’s

    The Readings for the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Lamentations 2:2, 10-14, 18-19 Luke 2:41-51 Blessed is the Virgin Mary who kept the word of God and pondered it in her heart. Alleluia Verse MARY’S TITLES ARE Innumerable. In the Byzantine Rites, in the Akathist (a hymn) to her she is called over…

  • Come See What I’ve Found

    Come See What I’ve Found

    The Readings for the 12th Wednesday Tempus per Annum II Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3 Matthew 7:15-20 I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD. II Kings 22:8 (NABRE) WE TEND TO IMAGINE ancient Israel as something like a theocracy under Jewish Law: everyone being faithful to one degree or another,…

  • Pigcasting

    Pigcasting

    The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga II Kings 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36 Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Don’t cast your pearls before swine. Matthew 7:6 (NABRE) APART FROM THE EPONYMOUS comic by Stephan Pastis, this verse usually means don’t give something important to those who don’t know how important it is. It pairs well…

  • Let me fix that for you.

    Let me fix that for you.

    The Readings for the 12th Monday, Tempus per Annum 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18 Matthew 7:1-5 Let me remove that splinter from your eye. Matthew 7:4 (NABRE) THIS BIT ABOUT NOT JUDGING is quite familiar to us. We’re often told (as Catholics) that we’re being “too judgey” when it comes to sex or some “inclusion”…

  • Now, Daddy! Now!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week Tempus Per Annum: Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 Matthew 7:21-29 Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine. First, Abram didn’t quite follow…

  • Act of Resignation

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th week of Ordinary Time (C1) Genesis 13:2, 5-18 Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. There were quarrels between…

  • So many. So many…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Lamentation 2:2, 10-14, 18-19  Matthew 8:5-7 Et omnes male habentes curavit : And all that were sick he healed And all that were sick, he healed… that “all” there is the Greek word, πάντας pantas,…