Category: 24Ordinary

  • How to Treat the Richest 1 Percent

    How to Treat the Richest 1 Percent

    The Readings for the Memorial of St John Chrysostom, Doctor24th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. I Corinthians 12:12 TODAY is the Memorial of St John Chrysostom. By many lights, he…

  • So Very Much Love

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Sts Andrew Kim Tae-gon, & Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, MartyrsThursday in the 24th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 7:36-50 Remittuntur ei peccata multa, quoniam dilexit multum. Cui autem minus dimittitur, minus diligit.Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to…

  • Thoughts and Prayers

    +JMJ+ The Readings for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 50:5-9A James 2:14-18 Mark 8:27-35 Vade retro me Satana, quoniam non sapis quae Dei sunt, sed quae sunt hominum. Get behind me Satan, you’re not thinking as God does, but as men do. At vigil Mass on Saturday night I had the second…

  • All Teh Feelz

    + JMJ Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Luke 7:31-35 Dixit Jesus, “Cui ergo similes dicam homines generationis hujus? et cui similes sunt? Similes sunt pueris sedentibus in foro, et loquentibus ad invicem, et dicentibus: Cantavimus vobis tibiis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non plorastis.”Jesus said, “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What…

  • Enculturated

    Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Luke 7:11-17 Suæ domui bene præpositum: filios habentem subditos cum omni castitate. Si quis autem domui suæ præesse nescit, quomodo ecclesiæ Dei diligentiam habebit? He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with perfect dignity; for if a man does not know how to manage his own…

  • May G-d Bless & Keep the Tzar…

    + JMJ Today’s Readings: 1 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 7:1-10 Obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes, gratiarum actiones, pro omnibus hominibus: pro regibus, et omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt, ut quietam et tranquillam vitam agamus in omni pietate, et castitate: hoc enim bonum est, et acceptum coram Salvatore nostro Deo, qui omnes homines vult salvos fieri, et…