Category: 4Easter

  • But in this time

    The Paschal Preface in the Roman Rite is only used from Easter to Ascension (or is it Pentecost? I don’t know). It’s present in the Novus Ordo nearly verbatim from the older order. Borrowing from Rome, the same text is also present in the 79 BCP for Episcopalians and in the People’s Anglican Missal for…

  • Sometimes it’s totally needed

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52  John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself.  The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…

  • Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25  John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…

  • Hanukkah in the Nile.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 11:19-26  John 10:22-30 Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.  The Feast of the Dedication. Jesus is chilling in the temple…