Category: Fer3

  • The Call Came From INSIDE THE HOUSE!

    The Call Came From INSIDE THE HOUSE!

    JMJ Did you ever notice this one?  “The Son of Man will send his angels,and they will collect out of his Kingdomall who cause others to sin”Matthew 13:41 I read the Gospel for today and didn’t even notice it. Sitting at Mass tonight this verse lept up and punched me hard in the gut. The…

  • Face to Face

    Face to Face

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 17th week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28 Matthew 13:36-43 Loquebatur autem Dominus ad Moysen facie ad faciem, sicut solet loqui homo ad amicum suum. The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to his friend. The Hebrew word used…

  • Looking Trough a Cloud Darkly

    Looking Trough a Cloud Darkly

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 16th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Exodus 14:21-15:1 Matthew 12:46-50 In the night watch just before dawn the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic. If you read Gone with the Wind you get a…

  • Love different

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 32:23-33 Matthew 9:32-38 Nequaquam, inquit, Jacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israel : quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti, quanto magis contra homines praevalebis?Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much…

  • Act of Resignation

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th week of Ordinary Time (C1) Genesis 13:2, 5-18 Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. There were quarrels between…

  • Are you a hacker?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 20:17-27 John 17:1-11a What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my…

  • Authoritay

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Tuesday in the 6th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:22-34 John 16:5-11 (Who proceeds from the Father…) I will send him to you. I’m not going to defend the Filioque clause with this essay except by accident. I’m continually asked why I left Orthodoxy for Catholicism traveling from east to west,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Price of Admission

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Pope St Pius, XTuesday in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 28:1-10 Matthew 19:23-30 Multi autem erunt primi novissimi, et novissimi primi. Many who are first will be last, and the last will be first This is one of those verses like the song of…

  • Confess Your Unpopular Opinions

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Maximilian Kolbe, Priest & MartyrTuesday in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 2:8-3:4 Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Alleluia. Tollite jugum meum super vos, et discite a me, quia mitis sum, et humilis corde  Alleuia. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I…