Category: 4Ordinary

  • True Pastor, True Mercy, True Food

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 3:4-13 Mark 6:30-34 Et ait illis : Venite seorsum in desertum locum, et requiescite pusillum. Erant enim qui veniebant et redibant multi : et nec spatium manducandi habebant. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little.…

  • Solomon, Boxcar Willie, & Gran’pa

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 2:1-4, 10-12  Mark 6:7-13 ἰσχύσεις καὶ ἔσῃ εἰς ἄνδραconfortare, et esto virוְחָזַקְתָּ֖ וְהָיִ֥יתָֽ לְאִֽיש Take Courage and show yourself a man.This is one of those places where the Greek of the LXX, the Masoretic Hebrew, the Latin of Jerome and the…

  • The Prison of Our Minds

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John Bosco Wednesday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) II Samuel 24:2, 9-17 Mark 6:1-6 Et non poterat ibi virtutem ullam facere, nisi paucos infirmos impositis manibus curavit, et mirabatur propter incredulitatem eorum.And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few…

  • Of Bessie’s Butterscotch Pudding and Scriptural Inspiration.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) II Samuel 18:9-10, 14B, 24-25A, 30–19:3 Mark 5:21-43 (Jesu) dixit dari illi manducare.(Jesus) commanded that something should be given her to eat. My late grandmother made this amazing butterscotch pudding. I will ask Jesus for some when I get to the other side. I…

  • Tao of Paul 2

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Deuteronomy 18:15-20  I Corinthians 7:32-35  Mark 1:21-28 Volo autem vos sine sollicitudine esse.I would have you to be without solicitude.This picks up where the Tao of Paul left us last Sunday. I don’t think the Latin does as well with the Greek, though.  Sollicitudine……