Category: Fer4

  • Validate Me

    The Readings for the 11th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. Matthew 6:2b (NABRE) MANY RECENT CONVERSATIONS have been around the topic of seeking validation. Your host became aware of this issue leaving his job history (of nearly 25 years)…

  • The Opposite of Acedia

    The Opposite of Acedia

    Readings for 7th Wednesday after Easter (C2) Acts 20:28-38 John 17:11b-19 I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is…

  • Jonah’s New Signs

    Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (A2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 No sign will be given except the sign of Jonah. Wake up this morning was to news about the Pope’s Lenten Retreat on the Holy Prophet Jonah. This story from the scriptures was, therefore, on my mind as I went to…

  • The Amazon in Burning

    The Readings for the 31st Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 13:8-10 Luke 14:25-33 Nemini quidquam debeatis, nisi ut invicem diligatis : qui enim diligit proximum, legem implevit. Dilectio proximi malum non operatur. Plenitudo ergo legis est dilectio.Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the…

  • Salvific Synergy of SIn

    If everyone gets in, God wins. I call it the God Wins Law.

  • …I met a man with seven wives…

    If we are united to Christ and share in the fullness of God-stuff (as we noted yesterday) then it’s all done, right? No. For what we discover if we pay any attention to ourselves is that there are a lot of things present in us that seem to have a certain quality of “B.C.” How…

  • The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7A, 17-24A Matthew 10:1-7 Merito haec patimur, quia peccavimus in fratrem nostrum, videntes angustiam animae illius, dum deprecaretur nos, et non audivimus : idcirco venit super nos ista tribulatio. We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against…

  • Abolish or Fulfill? Abolish or Fulfill?

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Matthew 5:17-19 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. There are no answers in this blog post. Some of us will hear a sermon…

  • Paul gets all up in the Pagan Air

    No, no! That’s the wrong Damon… +J+M+J+ The Readings for Wednesday in the 6th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:15, 22-18:1 John 16:12-15 I see that in every respect you are very religious… Paul’s word for “religious” is δεισιδαιμονεστέρους deisidaimonesteros. This is the only place in the Greek scriptures where it is used. It means…

  • Don’t Dubia The Import of This

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…

  • Wei Wu Wei

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 Luke 6:20-26 Et qui utuntur hoc mundo, tamquam non utantur : praeterit enim figura hujus mundi. And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. The Greek in these verses…

  • The Final Mystery of the Rosary

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Queenship of MaryWednesday in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 34:1-11 Matthew 20:1-16 Alleluia. Vivus est enim sermo Dei, et discretor cogitationum et intentionum cordis.  Alleluia. The word of God is living and effective, able to discern the reflections and thoughts of the heart.It’s tempting to take this reading…

  • Food for the Dogs…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St DominicWednesday in the 18th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 31:1-7 Matthew 15:21-28 Non est bonum sumere panem filiorum, et mittere canibus. It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.  It’s a long standing bit of church-geeky wordplay that takes…

  • A sting of pearls…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Alphonsus Liguouri, Bishop & Doctor of the ChurchWednesday in the 17th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21 Matthew 13:44-46 Gloriatus sum a facie manus tuae : solus sedebam, quoniam comminatione replesti me. Quare factus est dolor meus perpetuus, et plaga mea desperabilis renuit curari? facta est mihi quasi mendacium aquarum infidelium.…

  • Some sheep go astray…

    Can you get from this image to the topic? ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot.Wednesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Potius ite ad oves quae perierunt domus Israel. Euntes autem praedicate, dicentes : Quia appropinquavit regnum caelorum. Go rather to the…