Category: 5easter

  • Only Two Seasons

    Only Two Seasons

    FROM THE OFFICE Of Readings for the 5th Saturday after Easter. I’m reminded of a comment made about my old Episcopal Parish. At St Gregory of Nyssa Church it seemed as if there were only two Church seasons: Easter and Easter is Comming. St Augustine appears to agree (emphasis added). Shabbat Shalom! From a discourse…

  • It’s only a little pinch.

    Bl. Stanley Rother, God’s Friend. +J+M+J+ The Readings for Saturday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:1-10 John 15:18-21 I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Once, a long, long time ago, it seems to me now, in a religious galaxy far, far away I sat in a class…

  • Friendzoned by Jesus.

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Friday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 I call you friends… This gets sentimentalized sometimes. Sometimes overly so. I remember when Jesus calling us (me) his friends used to cause me to wax poetical about Plato, David and Jonathan, and about someone important in my life.…

  • Annuntio Vobis Gaudium Magnum!

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Thursday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:7-21 John 15:9-11 I have told you this so that… your joy might be complete. Jesus said this just before he went out to die. You know this and I do too, but we often forget it. If you’re not happy, some would…

  • Nothing is strong. Very Strong.

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:1-6 John 15:1-8 Without me you can do nothing. St Thomas Aquinas calls God the root of being, itself. God’s being is the very beingness of everything. St John says that God is love. That means the very beingness of the entire…

  • So, about this wall…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…

  • I am divine, you are dibranches.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6  John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • The Medium is the Message

    JMJ The Readings for Monday in the Fifth Week of EasterThe Feast of Pope St Pius V Acts 14:5-18 John 14:21-26 Even with these words, they scarcely restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them. This scene of the Lystrians offering sacrifices to Zeus and Hermes is one of my favorite events in all of…

  • I in you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 5th Sunday of Easter (B2) Among the Dominicans, The Feast of St Catherine of Siena Acts 8:26-31 1 John 3:18-24  John 15:1-8 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ehe Catechism Tjus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum…We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one…