Category: 2Lent

  • Asleep in the Light

    This may have come up before, but the EF Gospel and the OF Gospel for Year A (which we always use when there are catechumens) are the same pericope: the Transfiguration account from Matthew. In this passage, after the terror of the divine vision, Jesus touches the Apostles and says, Ἐγέρθητε καὶ μὴ φοβεῖσθε.Egerthete kai…

  • God’s Bearhugging Boy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20  Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Erant autem appropinquantes ei publicani, et peccatores ut audirent illum. Et murmurabant pharisaei, et scribae, dicentes : Quia hic peccatores recipit, et manducat cum illis. Et ait ad illos parabolam istam.Now the publicans and sinners drew…

  • No pain. No gain.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13A, 17B-28A Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Dixit ergo Judas fratribus suis : Quid nobis prodest si occiderimus fratrem nostrum, et celaverimus sanguinem ipsius? Melius est ut venundetur Ismaelitis, et manus nostrae non polluantur : frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquieverunt fratres…

  • My Own Private Lazarus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) St David of Wales Jeremiah 17:5-10 Luke 16:19-31 Homo quidam erat dives… There was a certain rich man… We have a huge homeless problem in San Francisco. The problem is we have a huge, wealthy population that’s scared of homeless people.They are scared…

  • Can we? Yes we can!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Jeremiah 18:18-20 Matthew 20:17-28 Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam, et Filius hominis tradetur principibus sacerdotum, et scribis, et condemnabunt eum morte, et tradent eum gentibus ad illudendum, et flagellandum, et crucifigendum…Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to…

  • Might have beens

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Matthew 23:1-12 Projicite a vobis omnes praevaricationes vestras in quibus praevaricati estis, et facite vobis cor novum, et spiritum novum.Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and…

  • Who am I to Judge?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 9:4b-10  Luke 6:36-38 Nolite judicare, et non judicabiminiJudge not, and you shall not be judgedThomas Aquinas, in his Catena Aurea (The Golden Chain) notes the following comments from the Fathers on this verse: Ambrose: The Lord added, that we must not readily judge…

  • Akeda

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 22:1-2, 9A, 10-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31B-34  Mark 9:2-10 Non pepercisti unigenito filio tuo propter me. Thou hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.  There is so much pain in this story. The Lent that I was at the Monastery, I couldn’t…

  • God’s Family Servants.

    The Holy Family Window, St Joseph, a young Jesus, and the BVM. Today’s readings: Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Matthew 23:1-12 The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.Matthew 23:12 Continuing from yesterday, where Lust is the fruit of Pride, we have today’s reading…

  • Don’t judge me, bro.

    Today’s Readings: Daniel 9:4B-10 Luke 6:36-38 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.Luke 6:36-37a This verse can be thrown in our faces at times. Anytime a comment about morality is made it can turn into a “Don’t judge…

  • The Ur-Leaving

    Today’s readings: Genesis 12:1-4a 2 Timothy 1:8B-10 Matthew 17:1-9 Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.Genesis 12:1b At the Stations of the Cross on Friday night we were meditating on the woes of Migrants, leaving their families and homelands and seeking…