Category: 25Ordinary

  • Put your Hand to the Plough

    Put your Hand to the Plough

    In our modern, rootless and cosmopolitan world, we need to be rootless to serve the God we follow, we are following Jesus.

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Vincent de PaulThursday ihthe 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Luke 9:7-9 Deus, qui sacrae legis omnia constituta in tua et proximi dilectione posuisti… O God, whou founded all the commands of your sacred Law upon love of you and of our neighbor… As…

  • Poets of the Logos

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 Luke 8:19-21 Mater mea et fratres mei hi sunt, qui verbum Dei audiunt et faciunt.My Mother and Brothers are those who are hearing and doing the Word of God.Jesus, like his brother, James, makes much of those who…

  • Think Different

    Good Ol’ Uncle Al ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 3:27-34 Luke 8:16-18 Ne aemuleris hominem injustum, nec imiteris vias ejus. Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways. America has a problem with rebels. We started with the violent overthrow of our lawful…

  • The Lord will uphold my Life.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 James 3:16—4:3 Mark 9:30-37 Videamus ergo si sermones illius veri sint, et tentemus quae ventura sunt illi, et sciemus quae erunt novissima illius. Si enim est verus filius Dei, suscipiet illum, et liberabit eum de manibus contrariorum… Erit enim ei…

  • This is not an interfaith dialogue.

    + JMJ Today’s Readings: Isaiah 55:6-9 Philippians 1:20C-24, 27A Matthew 20:1-16A Et nunc magnificabitur Christus in corpore meo, sive per vitam, sive per mortem. Mihi enim vivere Christus est, et mori lucrum. Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.…