Category: 23Ordinary
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Wrong Communion
The Readings for the 23rd Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C2) The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?l I Corinthians 10:16 (NABRE) THIS IS NOT REALLY ABOUT The readings (for Saturday,…
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Loving is not A Like and Share.
The Readings for the 23rd Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way. Luke 6:26 (NABRE) THE NEED TO HAVE other speak well of one’s self is, perhaps not always as great as the need to have others speak…
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The Wholly Name
The Readings for the 23rd Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. Luke 6:19 (NABRE) WHEN THE ANGEL Spoke to Mary (in Luke 1:32) she was told she would have a Son and she should call him Jesus. Later,…
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Sock it to me, God
The Readings for the 23rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A) Jeremiah 20:7-9Romans 12:1-2Matthew 16:21-27 AYEAR AGO I weighed 300 lbs. This was a symbolic weight for me as sometime in the 1980s, in my mid20s, I had said to someone, “If I ever get to 300 pounds you can shoot me.” At the time I…
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AEEEEEEE-LEEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAAAA!
✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomFriday in the 23rd week Tempus per Annum (C1) 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 Luke 6:39-42 Numquid potest caecus caecum ducere? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt? Non est discipulus super magistrum : perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus.Can a blind person guide a blind…
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…I met a man with seven wives…
If we are united to Christ and share in the fullness of God-stuff (as we noted yesterday) then it’s all done, right? No. For what we discover if we pay any attention to ourselves is that there are a lot of things present in us that seem to have a certain quality of “B.C.” How…
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All the fullness
The NABRE gets the Greek text here better than a good many Protestant Bibles: Christ is filled with the πλήρωμα pleroma, the fullness of the θεότης theotes, the “God-stuff” and in him, we share in this πλήρωμα as well. This would be horrifying to most modern Protestants, although the Wesley brothers, at least, along with…
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Idols of the Post-Moderns
✙ JMJ The Readings for Our Lady of SorrowsSaturday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 Luke 2:33-35 Sed quae immolant gentes, daemoniis immolant, et non Deo. Nolo autem vos socios fieri daemoniorum : non potestis calicem Domini bibere, et calicem daemoniorum; non potestis mensae Domini participes esse, et mensae daemoniorum.But the things…
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The Courthouse at Apophatics.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomThursday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 8:1B-7, 11-13 Luke 6:27-38 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. There is…
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Wei Wu Wei
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 Luke 6:20-26 Et qui utuntur hoc mundo, tamquam non utantur : praeterit enim figura hujus mundi. And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. The Greek in these verses…
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What if?
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Luke 6:12-19 Et haec quidam fuistis : sed abluti estis, sed sanctificati estis, sed justificati estis in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et in Spiritu Dei nostri.And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are…
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Reformat then Reboot
The Readings for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 35:4-7James 2:1-5Mark 7:31-37 Et adducunt ei surdum, et mutum. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment. (NABRE) OK. We need to look at some Greek. The word rendered “deaf” here means deaf. Not “hard of hearing” or “Had to…
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Pie in the Sky By and By When You Die
Today’s readings: Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 6:20-26 Beati pauperes, quia vestrum est regnum Dei. Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. Luke 6:20b It seems entirely possible to read this and other passages as if God likes poor people and hates the rich, as if there are so many ways…
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Making Up for Whatever is Lacking
+J+M+J+ Today’s readings: Colossians 1:24–2:3 Luke 6:6-11 Adimpleo ea quæ desunt passionum Christi, in carne mea pro corpore ejus, quod est Ecclesia. In my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his Body, which is the Church… Colossians 1:24b You have to admit that’s a shocker.…
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Judgement and Love
Today’s Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 Si autem peccaverit in te frater tuus, vade, et corripe eum inter te, et ipsum solum: si te audierit, lucratus eris fratrem tuum. If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have…
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