Category: Fer4
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Nothing Ordinary
JMJ✙ The Readings for the Visitation of Mary8th Wednesday of Ordinary Time Zephania 3:14-18a Responsorial from Isaiah 12 (Response: Among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.) Romans 12:9-16 Luke 1:45 (Alleluia) Luke 1:39-56 The Lord your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with…
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More Ordinary Mysteries
The Readings for the 1st Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Hebrews 2:14-18 Psalm 105 (Responsorial) John 10:27 (Alleluia) Mark 1:29-39 For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. Hebrews 2:18 THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR of Hebrews, just for a shorthand, let’s give him a name… say……
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Urbi et Orbi
The Readings for the 4th Wednesday of Advent (A1) Song of Songs 2:8-14 Psalm 33 (Responsorial) Luke 1:39-45 The voice of the man I love! Here he comes, bounding over the mountains, skipping over the hills! Song of Songs 2:8 (CJB) DURING THE GLOBAL PANIC in March of 2020, watching bodies pile up, morgues overrun,…
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Clash of the Titans
The Readings for the 3rd Wednesday of Advent (A1)Memorial of St John of the Cross, Priest & Doctor of the Church Isaiah 45:6C-8, 18, 21C-25 Psalm 85 (Responsorial) Isaiah 40:9-10 (Gospel Acclamation) Luke 7:18b-23 Heavens above, rain down justice; let the clouds pour it down. Let the earth open, so that salvation springs up, and…
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Loving is not A Like and Share.
The Readings for the 23rd Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) I Corinthians 7:25-31 Luke 6:20-26 Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way. Luke 6:26 (NABRE) THE NEED TO HAVE other speak well of one’s self is, perhaps not always as great as the…
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What You Need and Nothing More.
The Readings for the 20th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St. Hyacinth of Poland, friar and priest Ezekiel 34:1-11 Matthew 20:1-16 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? Matthew 20:15 (AV) THE PAIRING OF THESE TWO readings seems strange,…
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Serve & Follow
The Readings for the Feat of St Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr19th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) II Corinthians 9:6-10 John 12:24-26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. John 12:26 THE DEACON St Lawrence was the patron saint of the Orthodox monastery where I tested my…
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Tough Love
The Readings for the 18th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Jeremiah 31:1-7 Matthew 15:21-28 And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” Matthew 15:22 THIS PERICOPE always intrigues me: there’s no Canaan. There’s no province of…
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Horse Hockey!
The Readings for the 17th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl. Stanley Rother, Priest & Martyr Jeremiah 18:1-6 Matthew 13:47-53 Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven… brings from his storeroom both the new and the old. Matthew 13:52 SCRIBES GET A BAD rap in the New Testament: basically…
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Missed Pearl
The Readings for the 17th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21 Matthew 13:44-46 When I found your words, I devoured them; your words were my joy, the happiness of my heart, because I bear your name, LORD God of hosts. Jeremiah 15:16 SCRIPTURE STUDY has consumed the writer since the late 90s. In…
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Perpetual Adoration
The Readings for the 16th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Apollinaris, bishop and martyr Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10 Matthew 13:1-9 Then the LORD extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying to me, See, I place my words in your mouth! Jeremiah 1:9 LET’S OPEN UP with an episode of Catholic Stuff You Should Know.…
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ABBAbandonment Issues
The Readings for the 15th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Henry, King Isaiah 10:5-7, 13B-16 Matthew 11:25-27 No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27b TO WHOM DO YOU PRAY? I’ve been wrestling with this a lot lately. So much Christian…
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Autobasileia
The Readings for the 14th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 10:6-7 JESUS SENDS His disciples ahead of him to the towns the plans to visit:…
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Three Singers, One Song
The Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Apostles Acts 12:1-11 II Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16:13-19 It was the feast of the Unleavened Bread Acts 12:3 (NABRE) TODAY’S FEAST CELEBRATES TWO Men who sang the same song. They were both martyred for the song because they refused to change the tune when the empire demanded…
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Come See What I’ve Found
The Readings for the 12th Wednesday Tempus per Annum II Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3 Matthew 7:15-20 I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD. II Kings 22:8 (NABRE) WE TEND TO IMAGINE ancient Israel as something like a theocracy under Jewish Law: everyone being faithful to one degree or another,…
