Category: 3advent

  • Clash of the Titans

    Clash of the Titans

    The Readings for the 3rd Wednesday of Advent (A1)Memorial of St John of the Cross, Priest & Doctor of the Church Heavens above, rain down justice; let the clouds pour it down. Let the earth open, so that salvation springs up, and justice sprouts with it. I, Adonai, have created it. Isaiah 45:8 (CJB) READING…

  • Time flies…

    Time flies…

    LEARNING, TONIGHT, OF TWO different readings of this passage. One will be familiar to my Christian readers, the other to my Jewish ones. There may be some overlap, but they seem to be mutually exclusive. There may be a way to pull in the both-and option, but we’ll see. The Torah Portion that was read…

  • Patience is a Virtue

    Patience is a Virtue

    The Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Advent (A1) Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth,being patient with ituntil it receives the early and the late rains.You too must be patient. James 5:7 (NABRE) WHY IS JAMES ASKING US to be…

  • Indefectibili Foedere

    The Readings for the 3rd Monday in Advent (A2) Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17A Matthew 21:23-27 Dixit auditor sermonum Dei, qui visionem Omnipotentis intuitus est, qui cadit, et sic aperiuntur oculi ejus :The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured,…

  • Gaudete

    The Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent (A2) Isaiah 35:1-6A, 10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 Tu es, qui venturus es, an alium exspectamus?Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? You know what? Life is not like we post it on Facebook. It’s ugly. The vast majority sees the world…

  • Christmas in Purgatory

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday 3 Advent (Year 2): Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24 Luke 1:57-66 Et quis poterit cogitare diem adventus ejus, et quis stabit ad videndum eum? ipse enim quasi ignis conflans. And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he…

  • Why We’re Doomed

    Buy Nothing Christmas! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday 3 Advent (Year 2): 1 Samuel 1:24-28 Luke 1:46-56 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo; Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede,   et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis,   et divites dimisit inanes. He has shown the strength of his arm, and has scattered the proud…

  • Belushi, Geer, and God… (ok, and Solomon.)

    Chagall’s Song of Solomon 1958 ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 3 Advent (Year 2): Song of Songs 2:8-14 Luke 1:39-45 Similis est dilectus meus capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum. En ipse stat post parietem nostrum, respiciens per fenestras, prospiciens per cancellos. En dilectus meus loquitur mihi. SPONSUS: Columba mea, in foraminibus petræ, in caverna maceriæ, ostende…

  • Thus was fulfilled.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Audite ergo, domus David. Numquid parum vobis est molestos esse hominibus, quia molesti estis et Deo meo? Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum: ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel. Hear ye therefore, O house of David:…

  • But. But. I want to know…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Judges 13:2-7, 24-25A Luke 1:5-25 Unde hoc sciam?  Whereby shall I know this? John is the last prophet. There are no prophets after John the Baptist because Jesus is the fulfillment of the prophets. God needs no other voice because God has spoken finally and…

  • Is God’s Navel an Inney or an Outey?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 3 Advent (Year 2): Jeremiah 23:5-8 Matthew 1:18-25 Hoc autem totum factum est, ut adimpleretur quod dictum est a Domino per prophetam dicentem: Ecce virgo in utero habebit, et pariet filium: et vocabunt nomen ejus Emmanuel, quod est interpretatum Nobiscum Deus. Now all this was done that it might…

  • It’s Better Than the Alternative

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 3 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 61:1-2A, 10-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28 Gaudens gaudebo in Domino, et exsultabit anima mea in Deo meo, quia induit me vestimentis salutis, et indumento justitiæ circumdedit me, quasi sponsum decoratum corona, et quasi sponsam ornatam monilibus suis. I will greatly rejoice in…