Category: 19ordinary
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Life Just Keeps Coming
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 19th Sunday, Tempus per Annum Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and precede him to the other side. Matthew 14:22 BY WAY OF DISCUSSING THIS GOSPEL, let me link back to the story we heard on Wednesday in the first reading from the Book of Numbers: sending the…
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Godwin’s Law You Know
The Readings for the 19th Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl Jane de Chantal Ezekiel 16:1-15, 60, 63 Matthew 19:3-12 For I will re-establish my covenant with you, that you may know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace,…
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Please Stand By
The Readings for the Memorial of St Clare, Virgin19th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Ezekiel 12:1-12 Matthew 18:21–19:1 Cover your face so you cannot see the land, for I am making you a sign for the house of Israel! Ezekiel 12:6 SAINT CLARE WAS granted a vision of Mass on Christmas Eve so that she…
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Serve & Follow
The Readings for the Feat of St Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr19th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) II Corinthians 9:6-10 John 12:24-26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. John 12:26 THE DEACON St Lawrence was the patron saint of the Orthodox monastery where I tested my…
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Be the Light
The Readings for the Solemnity of Our Holy Father Dominic19th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 52:7-10 II Timothy 4:1-5 Matthew 5: 13-16 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from…
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Keep Watch
The Readings for the 19th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Wisdom 18:6-9 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Luke 12:32-48 That night [The Passover] was known beforehand to our ancestors, so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Wisdom 18:6 IT’S INTERESTING TO READ THIS passage from Wisdom…
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A Perfectly Timely Parable
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 12:1-12 Matthew 18:21–19:1 Serve nequam, omne debitum dimisi tibi quoniam rogasti me : nonne ergo oportuit et te misereri conservi tui, sicut et ego tui misertus sum? You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you…
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Confess Your Unpopular Opinions
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Maximilian Kolbe, Priest & MartyrTuesday in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 2:8-3:4 Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Alleluia. Tollite jugum meum super vos, et discite a me, quia mitis sum, et humilis corde Alleuia. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I…
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In which I came out as Antivax
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30-5:2 John 6:41-51 Nonne hic est Jesus filius Joseph, cujus nos novimus patrem et matrem? quomodo ergo dicit hic : Quia de caelo descendi?Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then…
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