Category: 22Ordinary

  • Dryness in Prayer

    Dryness in Prayer

    The Readings for the 22nd Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch. Luke 5:4 SO ONCE AGAIN, the CFRs are on point, talking about Dryness in Prayer in their latest Podcast. The full episode is embedded below, but listening, I was struck suddenly with the…

  • The New Wine Fallacy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Luke 5:33-39 Vetus melius est.Old is better. Jesus’ saying about old and new wine skins gets abused a lot. It often gets turned into an excuse for percussion sets in Mass. I’ve heard it used in presenting new teachings…

  • That Natural Man…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corrinthians 2:10B-16 Luke 4:31-37 Animalis autem homo non percipit ea quae sunt Spiritus Dei : stultitia enim est illi, et non potest intelligere : quia spiritualiter examinatur.The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for…

  • Getting Out of the Inner Ring

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Pope St Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church Monday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Luke 4:16-30 Et multi leprosi erant in Israel sub Elisaeo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time…

  • More Sober Vigilance

    Today’s Readings: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11 Luke 4:31-37 Omnes enim vos filii lucis estis, et filii diei: non sumus noctis, neque tenebrarum. Igitur non dormiamus sicut et ceteri, sed vigilemus, et sobrii simus. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness.…

  • Memento Mori

    Today’s readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Luke 4:16-30 Quoniam ipse Dominus in jussu, et in voce archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de cælo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi. Deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Christo in aëra, et sic semper cum Domino erimus. For the Lord…

  • I’ve never been to me…

    Today’s Readings Jerome 20:7-9 Romans12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27 Si quis vult post me venire, abneget semetipsum, et tollat crucem suam, et sequatur me. Qui enim voluerit animam suam salvam facere, perdet eam: qui autem perdiderit animam suam propter me, inveniet eam.Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For…