Category: 3Lent

  • You want fries with that?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 Matthew 5:17-19 Nolite putare quoniam veni solvere legem, aut prophetas : non veni solvere, sed adimplere.Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. It’s Lent, so…

  • Merely Survived

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 3:25, 34-43  Matthew 18:21-35 Ut possimus invenire misericordiam tuam, sed in animo contrito, et spiritu humilitatis suscipiamur. Sicut in holocausto arietum, et taurorum, et sicut in millibus agnorum pinguium, sic fiat sacrificium nostrum in conspectu tuo hodie, ut placeat tibi, quoniam non…

  • Now, that’s Lent.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 3rd Week f Lent (B2) II Kings 5:1-15 Luke 4:24-30 Et multi leprosi erant in Israel sub Elisaeo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed…

  • None other Gods

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (B2) Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 John 2:13-25 Non habebis deos alienos coram me.Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. There are spoilers in this essay relating to the plot line of a very good book. But the book was published 100 years ago, so…

  • Fer’im R Agin’im?

    Today’s readings: Jeremiah 7:23-28 Luke 11:14-23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.Qui non est mecum, contra me est: et qui non colligit mecum, dispergit.Luke 11:23 This verse is often contrasted with Luke 9:50, which seems to say the reverse:Whoever is not against you is for…

  • 70×7=Eternity

    From CatholicLink Today Readings: Daniel 3:25, 34-43 Matthew 18:21-35 Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.Dicit illi Jesus: Non dico tibi usque septies: sed usque septuagies septies.Matthew 18:22 Forgiveness is one of the seven Spiritual Works of Mercy. The full list is at the end of the posting. I don’t…

  • Her Englightenment

    Today’s readings: Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-42 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one speaking with you.”Dicit ei Jesus: Ego sum, qui loquor te.John 4:26 You’ll be happy to know this never happened.  Well, something like this may have happened, you know; but this, this event, never happened. Jesus never made…