Category: Fer2
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Final Cause
Readings for Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola17th Monday After Pentecost A day late, but I keep rewriting… Only the one who has sinned against me will I blot out of my book. Exodus 32:33 WHY DID GOD MAKE ME? It’s the first thing the Baltimore Catechism offers us. God made me to know Him,…
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Swords and Pieces
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum “I have come to bring not peace but the sword.” Matthew 10:34 THIS GOSPEL CAN BE Unnerving – especially if you’re used to “Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild” or if you want to imagine that. He’s not. He wasn’t. He won’t be. Nevertheless, this Gospel…
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Overcoming the World
JMJ✙ The Readings for 7th Monday after Easter I have overcome the world. John 16:33 JESUS SAYS HE HAS OVERCOME the world. Yet, this is before his Crucifixion, before the Agony in the Garden – just before the High Priestly prayer. How has he already overcome the world? What does this mean for us? John…
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Be the Light
The Readings for the Solemnity of Our Holy Father Dominic19th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 52:7-10 II Timothy 4:1-5 Matthew 5: 13-16 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from…
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Always distinguish.
The Readings for the 16th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 Matthew 12:38-42 You have been told, O human, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 AT TIMES the entirely orthodox language of…
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Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.
The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Matthew 10:40 THIS WHOLE PASSAGE can seem strange. Swords, dysfunctional family fighting, etc. Ranks up there with the cut off your hands and…
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Let me fix that for you.
The Readings for the 12th Monday, Tempus per Annum 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18 Matthew 7:1-5 Let me remove that splinter from your eye. Matthew 7:4 (NABRE) THIS BIT ABOUT NOT JUDGING is quite familiar to us. We’re often told (as Catholics) that we’re being “too judgey” when it comes to sex or some “inclusion”…
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They are our brothers
There is a two-year cycle of Patristic Readings for the Office of Readings. It is not yet in the Liturgy of the Hours, but you can use it in the Universalis app, for example. The post below is the Patristic reading from the Monday of the 16th Week in Year 1. From a discourse of…
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Indefectibili Foedere
The Readings for the 3rd Monday in Advent (A2) Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17A Matthew 21:23-27 Dixit auditor sermonum Dei, qui visionem Omnipotentis intuitus est, qui cadit, et sic aperiuntur oculi ejus :The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured,…
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Mercy and Justice have Kissed
We tend to argue about matters of leisure (such as sex) because otherwise, we might have to discuss the injustice arising from our wealth.
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The Leaders they Deserve
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St MarthaMonday in the 17th week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 John 11:19-27 Cui ille respondit : Ne indignetur dominus meus : tu enim nosti populum istum, quod pronus sit ad malum.And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people,…
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Waiting at the Bottom of the Ladder
✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 14th week, Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 28:10-22a Matthew 9:18-26 Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you… Jacob sees all that’s going on and suddenly “…there was the LORD standing…
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Would the judge of all do that?
✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 18:16-33 Matthew 8:18-22 Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, now that he is to become a great and populous nation, and all the nations of the earth are to find blessing in him? This bizarre scene where Abraham…
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Arthur Dent and Titus Pullo
✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 11th week of Ordinary Time (C1) II Corinthians 6:1-10 Matthew 5:38-42 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil… If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one…
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Stick a fork in me, I’m done.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saint Charles Lwanga & Companions, MartyrsMonday in the 7th Week of Easter: II Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 Matthew 5:1-12 It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.The feast of…
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