Category: bible

  • Yes, Virginia, there are Angels. OK, Maryland.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of the Guardian AngelsTuesday in the 26th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 Mathew 18:1-5, 10 Videte ne contemnatis unum ex his pusillis : dico enim vobis, quia angeli eorum in caelis semper vident faciem Patris mei, qui in caelis est. See that you despise…

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Vincent de PaulThursday ihthe 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Luke 9:7-9 Deus, qui sacrae legis omnia constituta in tua et proximi dilectione posuisti… O God, whou founded all the commands of your sacred Law upon love of you and of our neighbor… As…

  • Poets of the Logos

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 Luke 8:19-21 Mater mea et fratres mei hi sunt, qui verbum Dei audiunt et faciunt.My Mother and Brothers are those who are hearing and doing the Word of God.Jesus, like his brother, James, makes much of those who…

  • Think Different

    Good Ol’ Uncle Al ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 3:27-34 Luke 8:16-18 Ne aemuleris hominem injustum, nec imiteris vias ejus. Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways. America has a problem with rebels. We started with the violent overthrow of our lawful…

  • The Lord will uphold my Life.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 James 3:16—4:3 Mark 9:30-37 Videamus ergo si sermones illius veri sint, et tentemus quae ventura sunt illi, et sciemus quae erunt novissima illius. Si enim est verus filius Dei, suscipiet illum, et liberabit eum de manibus contrariorum… Erit enim ei…

  • So Very Much Love

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Sts Andrew Kim Tae-gon, & Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, MartyrsThursday in the 24th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 7:36-50 Remittuntur ei peccata multa, quoniam dilexit multum. Cui autem minus dimittitur, minus diligit.Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to…

  • Thoughts and Prayers

    +JMJ+ The Readings for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 50:5-9A James 2:14-18 Mark 8:27-35 Vade retro me Satana, quoniam non sapis quae Dei sunt, sed quae sunt hominum. Get behind me Satan, you’re not thinking as God does, but as men do. At vigil Mass on Saturday night I had the second…

  • Idols of the Post-Moderns

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Our Lady of SorrowsSaturday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 Luke 2:33-35 Sed quae immolant gentes, daemoniis immolant, et non Deo. Nolo autem vos socios fieri daemoniorum : non potestis calicem Domini bibere, et calicem daemoniorum; non potestis mensae Domini participes esse, et mensae daemoniorum.But the things…

  • The Courthouse at Apophatics.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomThursday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 8:1B-7, 11-13 Luke 6:27-38 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. There is…

  • Wei Wu Wei

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 Luke 6:20-26 Et qui utuntur hoc mundo, tamquam non utantur : praeterit enim figura hujus mundi. And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. The Greek in these verses…

  • What if?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Luke 6:12-19 Et haec quidam fuistis : sed abluti estis, sed sanctificati estis, sed justificati estis in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et in Spiritu Dei nostri.And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are…

  • Reformat then Reboot

    The Readings for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 35:4-7James 2:1-5Mark 7:31-37 Et adducunt ei surdum, et mutum. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment. (NABRE) OK. We need to look at some Greek. The word rendered “deaf” here means deaf. Not “hard of hearing” or “Had to…

  • The New Wine Fallacy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Luke 5:33-39 Vetus melius est.Old is better. Jesus’ saying about old and new wine skins gets abused a lot. It often gets turned into an excuse for percussion sets in Mass. I’ve heard it used in presenting new teachings…

  • Look: The Bible Project

    +JMJ+ Can’t say enough good about these folks! Between the YouTube Channel, the growing community engagement they provide, the podcasts, and the solid Bible teaching, these folks are an apostolic force to reckon with. We’ve used them as a resource in the RCIA class and the Lay Dominicans use them as well. They don’t use…

  • That Natural Man…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corrinthians 2:10B-16 Luke 4:31-37 Animalis autem homo non percipit ea quae sunt Spiritus Dei : stultitia enim est illi, et non potest intelligere : quia spiritualiter examinatur.The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for…