Category: bible

  • St John Application Questions

    THE ASSIGNMENT WAS to do one of several application questions from the Ignatius Study Bible for the Gospel of John for the assigned chapters (2, 7, 12, 17). The study questions for the Ignatius Study Bible are amazing. The study guides can be downloaded for free in PDF format here. 2:15–16. What attachments do you…

  • Textual Echos of Priesthood

    Textual Echos of Priesthood

    The assignment was to discuss the ways that “priesthood” is echoed in the Gospel of Luke. I didn’t quite buy it. I was left either writing a paper I could not support or, else, ranting a bit. I tried to do a middle course and follow Thomas Aquinas: take the opposing position seriously and then…

  • As Children of the Kingdom

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent (C1) Baruch 5:1-9 Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 Luke 3:1-6 Exsurge, Jerusalem, et sta in excelso : et circumspice ad orientem, et vide collectos filios tuos ab oriente sole usque ad occidentem, in verbo Sancti, gaudentes Dei memoria. Exierunt enim abs te pedibus ducti ab inimicis : adducet…

  • Count as Loss.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 31st week of Ordinary Time (B2) Philippians 3:3-8 Luke 15:1-10 But whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.…

  • Pro Invicem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 5:21-33 Luke 13:18-21 Subjecti invicem in timore Christi. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.  Paul opens up this passage with a command that gets lost in the shuffle of modern political readings of scripture. Focus on…

  • My Face Hurts…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 4:32-5:8 Luke 13:10-17 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos : aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quae ad rem non pertinet : sed magis gratiarum actio.But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,…

  • All are welcome!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 3:14-21 Luke 12:49-53 In caritate radicati, et fundati, ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quae sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum : scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.That you, being rooted and…

  • The Domestics

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:12-22 Luke 12:35-38 Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ambo in uno Spiritu ad Patrem. Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenae : sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei.For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the…

  • All I Want is My Fair Share

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:1-10 Luke 12:13-21 Videte, et cavete ab omni avaritia… Take heed and beware of all covetousness… The Gospel is messy: it doesn’t color between the lines we’ve drawn. Who in this brief Gospel story of familial dysfunction gets your sympathy?…

  • Lord, can we ask you something?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 Magister, volumus ut quodcumque petierimus, facias nobis. Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us. This came up last night at St Dominic’s. It was a surprise to realize, but the…

  • I got my Liberty License

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the memorial of St Theresa of Avila, Doctor of the ChurchMonday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 4:22 – 5:1 Luke 11:29-32 Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillae filii, sed liberae : qua libertate Christus nos liberavit. State, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. So then, brethren, we…

  • An Ontological Illusion.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:22-29 Luke 11:27-28 Quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis. Non est Judaeus, neque Graecus : non est servus, neque liber : non est masculus, neque femina. Omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Jesu. For as many of you as…

  • What Spirit is We Should Be.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:1-5 Luke 11:5-13 O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit non obedire veritati, ante quorum oculos Jesus Christus praescriptus est, in vobis crucifixus? Sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu coeperitis, nunc carne consummemini? O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that…

  • Don’t Dubia The Import of This

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…

  • Sit Anathema Sit

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 1:6-12 Luke 10:25-37 Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.Paul is reaching out to the Galatian churches. (Galatians = Gauls =…