Category: Fer3

  • Something about the Name.

    Holy Name Altar, St Dominic’s SF ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 18th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 Matthew 14:22-36 Statimque Jesus locutus est eis, dicens : Habete fiduciam : ego sum, nolite timere.At once Jesus spoke to them, “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.” Today, 7…

  • Quis ut Deus?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Matthew 12:46-50 Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? Quis, Deus, similis tui, qui aufers iniquitatem, et transis peccatum reliquiarum haereditatis tuae?  Who is a God like…

  • Being a Local Guide

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 Matthew 9:32-38 Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.In my…

  • What color lipstick are you using?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 19:9B-11, 14-21, 31-35A, 36  Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Intrate per angustam portam : quia lata porta, et spatiosa via est, quae ducit ad perditionem, et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Quam angusta porta, et arcta via est, quae ducit…

  • Even Ahab Repents

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 21:17-29 Matthew 5:43-48 Nonne vidisti humiliatum Achab coram me? quia igitur humiliatus est mei causa, non inducam malum in diebus ejus, sed in diebus filii sui inferam malum domui ejus. “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me?…

  • Give up Wut?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 8th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Peter 1:10-16 Mark 10:28-31 Et coepit ei Petrus dicere : Ecce nos dimisimus omnia, et secuti sumus te. Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.  When it comes to giving up all things, the Apostles actually did,…

  • Cheating on my Husband.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:1-10  Mark 9:30-37 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend…

  • Tante Corrie Knows

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:17-27  John 17:1-11a Sed nihil horum vereor : nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi, quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiae Dei.But I fear none of these things, neither do I count…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • Hanukkah in the Nile.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 11:19-26  John 10:22-30 Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.  The Feast of the Dedication. Jesus is chilling in the temple…

  • I want you. To want me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 7:51—8:1A  John 6:30-35 Ego sum panis vitae.I am the bread of life.In the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer 1979 there is a Eucharistic Anaphora that includes the lines:  Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this table for solace only and…

  • A Community of Christians in Charity with the World

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for in Easter Week (B2) Acts 4:32-37  John 3:7B-15 Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos.For neither was there any one needy among them.They will know we are Christians by our love, y’all.  So where are there needy folks sitting in the pew next to you, or on the bus next…

  • Wherein We Reference the Watergate Breakins

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 2:36-41  John 20:11-18 Quia vidi Dominum!I have seen the Lord!The above image is from the TV miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth (1977). It shows Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalen delivering these very words: Quia vidi Dominum! This holy woman (the Magdalen, not Bancroft) is called The Apostle to the…

  • Croquet in Eqypt.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Passion Week (B2) Numbers 21:4-9 John 8:21-30 Cur eduxisti nos de Aegypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? In the Fathers, Egypt is seen as a symbol of our human bondage to sin. The Passover is a…

  • In the Vision-Time

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 John 5:1-16 Certe vidisti, fili hominis?Have you seen this, Son of Man? הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָ֑ם Son of Man in the Latin and English. In Hebrew it’s Son of Adam, like in Narnia. Yes, Adam means “man” and also “earth creature”,…