Category: 14Ordinary

  • Peniel

    Peniel

    JMJ✙ The Readings for the Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot14th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum “Because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.” Genesis 32:30 THE AUTHOR is continually surprised at the different ways ancient stories are read by Christians as compared to Jews. The rabbinic tradition is…

  • Mouth on Fire

    Mouth on Fire

    The Readings for the 14th Saturday, Tempus per AnnumMemorial of St. John of Cologne, OP, & Companions, martyrs Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 10:24-33 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. Isaiah 6:6 DURING THE LITURGIES OF St John Chrysostom and St Basil the…

  • Xanadu

    Xanadu

    The Readings for the 14th Friday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 14:2-10 Matthew 10:16-23 Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking…

  • Pauline Slang

    Pauline Slang

    The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 66:10-14c Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Galatians 6:15 (NABRE) UNCIRCUMCISION Is such an odd word. Of course, it means “gentile”, that is, person without a circumcision. But that’s really the…

  • Worse than 1867

    Worse than 1867

    The Readings for the 14th Thursday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 11:1-4, 8E-9 Matthew 10:7-15 Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Matthew 10:15 ¶1867 OF THE CATECHISM is one of those hard ones. It lists the…

  • Autobasileia 

    Autobasileia 

    The Readings for the 14th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 10:6-7 JESUS SENDS His disciples ahead of him to the towns the plans to visit:…

  • What Do You Fear?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26A Matthew 10:24-33 Si patremfamilias Beelzebub vocaverunt, quanto magis domesticos ejus? Nolite timere eos qui occidunt corpus, animam autem non possunt occidere.If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household? Do not be…

  • Mira! El Otro!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 Matthew 10:16-23 Tradet autem frater fratrem in mortem, et pater filium: et insurgent filii in parentes, et morte eos afficient: et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum: qui autem perseveraverit usque in finem, hic salvus erit. Brother will hand over…

  • Impossible.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Benedict, AbbotThursday in the 13th week Tempus Per Annum (C1) Genesis 44:18-21, 23B-29; 45:1-5 Matthew 10:7-15 Pro salute enim vestra misit me Deus ante vos in Aegyptum.It was for your salvation that God sent me before you into Egypt. Yesterday’s writing may have seemed a bit out…

  • The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7A, 17-24A Matthew 10:1-7 Merito haec patimur, quia peccavimus in fratrem nostrum, videntes angustiam animae illius, dum deprecaretur nos, et non audivimus : idcirco venit super nos ista tribulatio. We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against…

  • Love different

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 32:23-33 Matthew 9:32-38 Nequaquam, inquit, Jacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israel : quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti, quanto magis contra homines praevalebis?Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much…

  • Waiting at the Bottom of the Ladder

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 14th week, Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 28:10-22a Matthew 9:18-26 Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you… Jacob sees all that’s going on and suddenly “…there was the LORD standing…

  • Towering O’er the Wrecks of Time

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:10-14C Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  Disciples become Apostles. You never stop being a disciple of…

  • How many are you worth?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin.Saturday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 10:24-33 Nonne duo passeres asse veneunt? et unus ex illis non cadet super terram sine Patre vestro. Vestri autem capilli capitis omnes numerati sunt. Nolite ergo timere : multis passeribus meliores estis vos.…

  • Not even a pocket handkerchief

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 11:1-4, 8E-9 Matthew 10:7-15 Gratis accepistis, gratis date. Nolite possidere aurum, neque argentum, neque pecuniam in zonis vestris : non peram in via, neque duas tunicas, neque calceamenta, neque virgam : dignus enim est operarius cibo suo. You received without…