Category: 5Lent

  • Don’t Look Back

    Don’t Look Back

    YOUR HOST IS ATTEMPTING To navigate between two parishes, one Latin and one Byzantine, with the latter using the Julian Calendar no less. (Most Byzantine Catholic places, in the US at least, use the Gregorian Calendar.) This year’s Gregorian and Julian Easters are one week apart. Next year they are five weeks apart! This year…

  • Croquet in Eqypt.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Passion Week (B2) Numbers 21:4-9 John 8:21-30 Cur eduxisti nos de Aegypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? In the Fathers, Egypt is seen as a symbol of our human bondage to sin. The Passover is a…

  • Sacramentum Oboedientiae

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Passion Sunday (B2) Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 Nunc anima mea turbata est. Et quid dicam? Pater, salvifica me ex hac hora. Sed propterea veni in horam hanc : Pater, clarifica nomen tuum.  Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But…