Category: 2Advent

  • As Children of the Kingdom

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent (C1) Baruch 5:1-9 Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 Luke 3:1-6 Exsurge, Jerusalem, et sta in excelso : et circumspice ad orientem, et vide collectos filios tuos ab oriente sole usque ad occidentem, in verbo Sancti, gaudentes Dei memoria. Exierunt enim abs te pedibus ducti ab inimicis : adducet…

  • I know I am, but what are You?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 41:13-20 Matthew 11:11-15 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church Egeni et pauperes quærunt aquas, et non sunt; lingua eorum siti aruit. Ego Dominus exaudiam eos, Deus Israël, non derelinquam eos. The needy and the poor seek for…

  • This time I got away with it! Right?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 40:25-31 Matthew 11:28-30 Memorial of St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Quare dicis, Jacob, et loqueris, Israël: Abscondita est via mea a Domino, et a Deo meo judicium meum transivit? Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the…

  • Send the Rich Away.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Tuesday 2 Advent): Apocalyps 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Luke 1:39-47 Et signum magnum apparuit in cælo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim… And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and…

  • It just fell through, bang smash!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 5:17-26 Lætabitur deserta et invia, et exsultabit solitudo, et florebit quasi lilium. Germinans germinabit, et  lætabunda et laudans. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. It shall bud forth…

  • Flame. It… Flames

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 2 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 II Peter 3:8-14 Mark 1:1-8 Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur: in quo cæli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt opera, exurentur.  But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in…