Category: 27Ordinary

  • Jesus does go on, doesn’t he?

    Jesus does go on, doesn’t he?

    This is an assignment for my Homiletics class. Randomly picks out of a hat, as it were, it’s a coincidence that these are the readings for last Sunday. Yes, these homily assignments are extremely on-brand for me. The Readings for the 27th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Is he grateful to that servant because he…

  • An Ontological Illusion.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:22-29 Luke 11:27-28 Quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis. Non est Judaeus, neque Graecus : non est servus, neque liber : non est masculus, neque femina. Omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Jesu. For as many of you as…

  • What Spirit is We Should Be.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:1-5 Luke 11:5-13 O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit non obedire veritati, ante quorum oculos Jesus Christus praescriptus est, in vobis crucifixus? Sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu coeperitis, nunc carne consummemini? O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that…

  • Don’t Dubia The Import of This

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…

  • Sit Anathema Sit

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 1:6-12 Luke 10:25-37 Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.Paul is reaching out to the Galatian churches. (Galatians = Gauls =…

  • 200 Mysteries

    ✙ JMJ Rosary Sunday (Our Lady of Victory) This is a special feast for the Dominicans: it even trumps Sunday. That said, I don’t know the readings for today. The Rosary is a compendium of the entire Gospel. In prayer it unites us with Christ, it unites us with his mother, the first of the…