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  • Takes a cool hand…

    Today’s Readings: Judge 9:6-15 Matthew 20:1-16 An oculus tuus nequam est, quia ego bonus sum? Is your eye evil, because I am good? Matthew 20:15b We live in very interesting times, do we not? I say that in the style of the infamous Chinese curse, of course. When met with the anti Christian actions of…

  • Hail Holy Queen

    Today’s readings: Judges 6:11-24A Matthew 19:23-30 And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord, said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou shalt not die. And Gedeon built there an…

  • Thrown to the Dogs

    Today’s Readings: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28 Non est bonum sumere panem filiorum, et mittere canibus. It’s not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs. Matthew 15:26b I think everyone in the world today will be preaching something about what seems to be Jesus’ racism here. It’s…

  • We totally got this…

    My Mom was SOOOOO mad when this came in the mail! Number 68 (Aug/Sep 1982) of the Wittenburg Door. It showed what you see up there. And the back page said, “All this and hemorrhoids too.” Or words to that effect. Well, the woman who worked at the Post Office in 12790 was shocked and…

  • The Luminous Mysteries: the Broken Road

    Antiphon: God, bless the broken road that led me straight to you. In your baptism, O Christ, our God, you opened the pathway of initiation for us, into your Mysteries. I thank you for all who have moved me along this path, awkward and jerking though I have been. I’ve been on my way in…

  • Joyous Mysteries: Addiction

    The Angel came to Mary. Most of us won’t ever get there. But our conscience calls out to us. That comes from Latin works meaning “with knowledge” and St Paul says we have the law of God written in our hearts… When that voice calls out we can listen like Mary. It never calls us…

  • Dolorous Mysteries: Addiction

    When Christ is praying in the garden he faces the darkness. He knows the reality of sin, the hardness of the world. The fear is real. He is at rock bottom. Everything he thought he had, all that he is, all that he has said and done is over. There is only one way out.…

  • Interactive Birthday!

    Happy August – or Fogust, as we say in SF (see above)! Birthday #53 is coming up at the end of the month. I’d like to do something fun, but I need all my social media peeps to play along. So… I’d like scratchers – IE those scratch-off lottery tickets – from as many American…

  • The right way to end scandal

    Today’s readings: Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28 Matthew 13:36-43 Mittet Filius hominis angelos suos, et colligent de regno ejus omnia scandala, et eos qui faciunt iniquitatem.The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his Kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.Matthew 13:41 This is one of those…

  • Don’t Judge me, Bro. Love me.

    Today’s readings: Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 Matthew 13:31-35 Dixitque ad Aaron: Quid tibi fecit hic populus, ut induceres super eum peccatum maximum? Moses asked Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you should lead them into a grave sin?” Exodus 32:21 Recently, I’ve been blessed to have two friends who are on my back…

  • It’s all Good. I mean ALL. ALL OF IT.

    Today’s readings: 1 Kings 3:5-12 Romans 8:28-30 Matthew 13:44-52 Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Romans 8:28 The…

  • You gotta dance.

    Today’s readings: Exodus 20:1-17 Matthew 13:18-23 The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word… Matthew 13:19 In Matthew (as we heard on Sunday) seeds are not the abstract “Word of God” that they are in Luke and Mark. Seeds are symbols of us who have received the Word. Often you hear sermons…

  • To Them It Has Not Been Granted

    Today’s readings: Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20B Matthew 13:10-17 Because knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. Matthew 13:11 I am coming to you in a dense cloud,  so that when the people hear me speaking with you,  they may always…

  • Run that up the Crucifix and see who genuflects

    July Fourth always leaves me wrestling with my identity as a person born in this country. I have very little problem identifying with our past (even the bad parts) but the present has been a problem since, about 1980. That was the time I started to see through our Mythology. I remember one of the…

  • Seven Storey Mountain – reading along

    At the tweeted suggestion of Steve, aka Steve the Missionary, as part of my post-RCIA Catechesis (Adult Reading for the Catholic N00b) I’ve been reading Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith (from which edition all the page numbers are cited below). I very much dislike autobiography, to be honest, as of course would anyone…