Category: bible

  • Here is Deep Water

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Joachim and Anna, Grandparents of GodThursday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 Matthew 13:10-17 Obstupescite, caeli, super hoc : et portae ejus, desolamini vehementer, dicit Dominus. Duo enim mala fecit populus meus : me derelinquerunt fontem aquae vivae, et foderunt sibi cisternas,…

  • Quis ut Deus?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Matthew 12:46-50 Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? Quis, Deus, similis tui, qui aufers iniquitatem, et transis peccatum reliquiarum haereditatis tuae?  Who is a God like…

  • The Israel of God

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 Matthew 12:38-42 Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut quid molestus fui tibi? Responde mihi. Quia eduxi te de terra Aegypti, et de domo servientium liberavi te, et misi ante faciem tuam Moysen, et Aaron, et Mariam. O my…

  • The Flock is Scattered.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 23:1-6 Ephesians 2:13-18 Mark 6:30-34 Et suscitabo super eos pastores, et pascent eos : non formidabunt ultra, et non pavebunt, et nullus quaeretur ex numero I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more,…

  • The Subversion of Might

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 15th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 Non veni pacem mittere, sed gladium. I came not to send peace, but the sword.  How very strange this sounds to our ears, who are so used to thinking of Jesus as some sort of Zen Anarchist…

  • Fright or Fop?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Amos 7:12-15 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:7-13 Qui benedixit nos in omni benedictione spirituali in caelestibus in Christo, Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places  It comes to me from time to time, walking up to communion,…

  • Being a Local Guide

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 Matthew 9:32-38 Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.In my…

  • Math is hard.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 2:16, 17C-18, 21-22 Matthew 9:18-26 Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum; et sponsabo te mihi in justitia, et judicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus. Et sponsabo te mihi in fide; et scies quia ego Dominus.And I will betroth you to…

  • A few twists and you’re good to go.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Mark 6:1-6 Libenter igitur gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis, ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi.Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.  Paul reports having a “thorn in the flesh”, some…

  • Lord I’ve Done Some Yuge Things Here.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Memorial of St Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr 2 Kings 24:8-17  Matthew 7:21-29 Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum caelorum. Not all who say to me, Lord! Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.Don’t let anyone tell you that all…

  • This needn’t ever have happened.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3  Matthew 7:15-20 Omnis arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I’m having trouble finding it. It was this year’s “It’s…

  • 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…

  • Deus Vult!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:13-17 Mark 9:38-40 Si Dominus voluerit. Et : Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.  If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that. I watched the Pope Francis movie last Saturday. One of the things it did was…

  • Cheating on my Husband.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:1-10  Mark 9:30-37 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend…

  • No. Boys always say, “I love you *too*”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 25:13b-21  John 21:15-19 Dicit ei tertio : Simon Joannis, amas me? Contristatus est Petrus, quia dixit ei tertio : Amas me? He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said…