Category: 4Lent

  • Where you from?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) The Commemoration of St Patrick, Apostle to Ireland.  Jeremiah 11:18-20 John 7:40-53 Numquid et tu Galilaeus es?Art thou also a Galilean?An Anglican clergyman once told me that whenever he heard a Southern Drawl he immediately assumed he was talking to someone unlearned.…

  • His Ways are Very Different

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2)  Wisdom 2:1A, 12-22 John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Factus est nobis in traductionem cogitationum nostrarum. Gravis est nobis etiam ad videndum, quoniam dissimilis est aliis vita illius, et immutatae sunt viae ejus.He is become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us,…

  • There’s gotta be an easier way…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Exodus 32:7-14 John 5:31-47 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : Vade, descende : peccavit populus tuus, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti.And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the…

  • Like a Swiss Army Knife

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 49:8-15  John 5:17-30 Dedi te in foedus populi, ut suscitares terram, et possideres haereditates dissipatas; ut diceres his qui vincti sunt : Exite; et his qui in tenebris : Revelamini. Super vias pascentur, et in omnibus planis pascua eorum.[I have] given thee to…

  • In the Vision-Time

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 John 5:1-16 Certe vidisti, fili hominis?Have you seen this, Son of Man? הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָ֑ם Son of Man in the Latin and English. In Hebrew it’s Son of Adam, like in Narnia. Yes, Adam means “man” and also “earth creature”,…

  • Oh, that guy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent (B2) II Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Non enim misit Deus Filium suum in mundum, ut judicet mundum, sed ut salvetur mundus per ipsum. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be…