Category: 7ordinary

  • Love Hurts

    The Readings for the 7th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 Your heavenly Father… makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. I wanted to talk today about the Curious change when Jesus quotes from…

  • A Catechesis of Despair.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:13-20  Mark 10:13-16 Et offerebant illi parvulos ut tangeret illos. Discipuli autem comminabantur offerentibus.And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.  When Judgement Day comes many folks who are by human…

  • Who is gonna keep you outta glory?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:9-12  Mark 10:1-12 Nolite ingemiscere, fratres, in alterutrum, ut non judicemini. Ecce judex ante januam assistit.Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door. I heard a sermon earlier this week that…

  • But our Money says “In God We Trust…”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:1-6  Mark 9:41-50 Ecce merces operariorum, qui messuerunt regiones vestras, quae fraudata est a vobis, clamat : et clamor eorum in aures Domini sabbaoth introivit. Epulati estis super terram, et in luxuriis enutristis corda vestra in die occisionis.  Behold, the wages of the…