Category: 1ascension

  • Light one candle.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 28:16-20, 30-31  John 21:20-25 Domine, hic autem quid?Quid ad te? tu me sequere. Lord, what about him?What is that to you? You follow me.Peter, with a growing sense of… something… turns around and sees the Evangelist John taking notes like some Cub…

  • No. Boys always say, “I love you *too*”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 25:13b-21  John 21:15-19 Dicit ei tertio : Simon Joannis, amas me? Contristatus est Petrus, quia dixit ei tertio : Amas me? He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said…

  • Dīvide et Impera

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11  John 17:20-26 Viri fratres, ego pharisaeus sum, filius pharisaeorum, de spe et resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor.Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Philip of Macedonia,…

  • May not be a Bruce Lee quote. But it’s true.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:28-38  John 17:11b-19 Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. There’s this great line in St Catherine’s…

  • Tante Corrie Knows

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:17-27  John 17:1-11a Sed nihil horum vereor : nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi, quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiae Dei.But I fear none of these things, neither do I count…

  • Once there was a Pentarchy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Matthias, ApostleMonday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 1:15-17, 20-26  John 15:9-17 Et dederunt sortes eis, et cecidit sors super Mathiam, et annumeratus est cum undecim Apostolis. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the…