Category: Fer4

  • I have a cunning plan…

    ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Memorial of St Francis de Sales, BCDWednesday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  II Samuel 7:4-17  Mark 4:1-20 Et fidelis erit domus tua, et regnum tuum usque in aeternum ante faciem tuam, et thronus tuus erit firmus jugiter.And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face,…

  • My Favourite

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Mark 1:29-39  Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. This scene…

  • Thus was fulfilled.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Audite ergo, domus David. Numquid parum vobis est molestos esse hominibus, quia molesti estis et Deo meo? Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum: ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel. Hear ye therefore, O house of David:…

  • This time I got away with it! Right?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 40:25-31 Matthew 11:28-30 Memorial of St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Quare dicis, Jacob, et loqueris, Israël: Abscondita est via mea a Domino, et a Deo meo judicium meum transivit? Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the…

  • It’s all sin. Come and feast.

    Happy St Nicholas Day! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 25:6-10A Matthew 15:29-37 Et accesserunt ad eum turbæ multæ, habentes secum mutos, cæcos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos: et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos.Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed,…

  • All Teh Feelz

    + JMJ Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Luke 7:31-35 Dixit Jesus, “Cui ergo similes dicam homines generationis hujus? et cui similes sunt? Similes sunt pueris sedentibus in foro, et loquentibus ad invicem, et dicentibus: Cantavimus vobis tibiis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non plorastis.”Jesus said, “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What…

  • Pie in the Sky By and By When You Die

    Today’s readings: Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 6:20-26 Beati pauperes, quia vestrum est regnum Dei. Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. Luke 6:20b It seems entirely possible to read this and other passages as if God likes poor people and hates the rich, as if there are so many ways…

  • Takes a cool hand…

    Today’s Readings: Judge 9:6-15 Matthew 20:1-16 An oculus tuus nequam est, quia ego bonus sum? Is your eye evil, because I am good? Matthew 20:15b We live in very interesting times, do we not? I say that in the style of the infamous Chinese curse, of course. When met with the anti Christian actions of…

  • Paul on the Hill of Athens

    Today’s Readings: Acts 17:15, 22—18:1 John 16:12-15 {The Spirit} will guide you to all truth. John 16:13What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. Acts 16:23 I love that these two readings are a set, coming as we ramp up to Pentecost. The entire mystery of Passover is about to be revealed to the…

  • According to Hoyle

    Today’s readings: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 John 14:6-14 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.1 Corinthians 15:3-4 Baseball and Mixed Martial…

  • Tikkun Olam.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 5:17-26 John 3:16-21 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten…

  • Do not Display Yourself

    For the Gospel for Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18): A homily from the works of St John Chrysostom, Bishop. And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Here we do well to sigh aloud, and to wail bitterly: for…