Category: christmas

  • Oooo. Scaaaary.

    Source ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Day before the Nones of January: 1 John 2:22-28 John 1:19-28 Hæc scripsi vobis de his, qui seducant vos. I write you these things about those who would deceive you.  John, writing in the mid 70s (ish) of the 1st Century is already aware of Antichrist and…

  • Cranberry Celebration Copycat Recipe

    If you live near a Kroger’s or a King Sooper (that’s in Colorado) then you know what is this thing called Cranberry Celebration. My parents love it so much that they will do a day trip up to that College Town that has neither Alabama, nor Georgia, nor even Georgia Tech in it, just to…

  • Contemplata Aliis Tradere

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8va Day of Christmas, The Solemnity of the Mother of God: Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21 Maria autem conservabat omnia verba hæc, conferens in corde suo.But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.How does Luke know this? Because Mary told him…St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that “Vita…

  • Mom said I could help.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Holy Family, Sunday within the 8va of Christmas: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Colossians 3:12-17 Luke 2:22-40 Puer autem crescebat, et confortabatur plenus sapientia: et gratia Dei erat in illo. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. Once again we find this…

  • I want that. No. Wait.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Day in the 8va of Christmas: 1 John 2:12-17 Luke 2:36-40 Et mundus transit, et concupiscentia ejus And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof I’m late in posting I know. Actually I wasn’t going to make a post today, then I didn’t make one yesterday either. But…

  • A Bible Study with Godwin’s Law

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Holy Innocents: 1 John 1:5-2:2 Matthew 2:13-18 Si dixerimus quoniam societatem habemus cum eo, et in tenebris ambulamus, mentimur, et veritatem non facimus.If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. I’m reading (or listening…

  • The Golden Apples of the Sun…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St John’s Day: 1 John 1:1-4 John 20:1A, 2-8 Quod fuit ab initio, quod audivimus, quod vidimus oculis nostris, quod perspeximus, et manus nostræ contrectaverunt de verbo vitæ: annuntiamus vobis. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked…

  • Pass me a stone…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Stephen’s Day: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59 Matthew 10:17-22 Cavete autem ab hominibus. Tradent enim vos in conciliis, et in synagogis suis flagellabunt vos:  et ad præsides, et ad reges ducemini propter me in testimonium illis, et gentibus.Beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge…

  • Who would not love thee loving us so dearly?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Christmas Day: Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-6 John 1:1-18 Et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis.And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.Καὶ ὁ Λόγος σὰρξ  ἐγένετο, καὶἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν There is no Christianity at all without the literal truth of this verse. Without this verse, Jesus is a nutcase whose political theories are as…