Category: 1Lent

  • Jonah’s New Signs

    Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (A2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 No sign will be given except the sign of Jonah. Wake up this morning was to news about the Pope’s Lenten Retreat on the Holy Prophet Jonah. This story from the scriptures was, therefore, on my mind as I went to…

  • THEM

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Matthew 5:43-48 Ego autem dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos.But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute…

  • Whales Tales

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo.And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time.The first words in the Book of the Prophet Jonas are “Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam…” and there…

  • We can totally ignore this part…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, 1st Week of Lent (B2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18  Matthew 25:31-46 Et ibunt hi in supplicium aeternum : justi autem in vitam aeternam.And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.  A friend outside of Catholic Mass, gathering signatures for helping the homeless was told by…

  • Preaching to those in Prison

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 9:8-15 I Peter 3:18-22  Mark 1:12-15 In quo et his, qui in carcere erant, spiritibus veniens praedicavit : qui increduli fuerant aliquandont”In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: Which had been some time incredulous. This passage from St Peter is…

  • Before Our Father

    A Patristic Homily on the Gospel Reading for today, Tuesday in the First Week of Lent, from the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, using the words of Sts Augustine, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, and Pope Gregory the Great. Judaism has the teaching that God is the Father of us all. In the teaching of the…

  • Who is my Brethren?

    A Patristic Homily for the Monday in the First Week of Lent. From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Remigius, Gregory the Great, Rabanus, and Origen, the Teacher of the Fathers. Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for…