Category: Fer5

  • What really scares you?

    The Readings for the 30th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:31-39 Luke 13:31-35 Certus sum enim quia neque mors, neque vita, neque angeli, neque principatus, neque virtutes, neque instantia, neque futura, neque fortitudo, neque altitudo, neque profundum, neque creatura alia poterit nos separare a caritate Dei, quae est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro. For…

  • Impossible.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Benedict, AbbotThursday in the 13th week Tempus Per Annum (C1) Genesis 44:18-21, 23B-29; 45:1-5 Matthew 10:7-15 Pro salute enim vestra misit me Deus ante vos in Aegyptum.It was for your salvation that God sent me before you into Egypt. Yesterday’s writing may have seemed a bit out…

  • Now, Daddy! Now!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week Tempus Per Annum: Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 Matthew 7:21-29 Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine. First, Abram didn’t quite follow…

  • A Trick of the Tongue

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; I am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”…

  • Count as Loss.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 31st week of Ordinary Time (B2) Philippians 3:3-8 Luke 15:1-10 But whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.…

  • All are welcome!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 3:14-21 Luke 12:49-53 In caritate radicati, et fundati, ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quae sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum : scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.That you, being rooted and…

  • What Spirit is We Should Be.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:1-5 Luke 11:5-13 O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit non obedire veritati, ante quorum oculos Jesus Christus praescriptus est, in vobis crucifixus? Sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu coeperitis, nunc carne consummemini? O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that…

  • The Greatest Adventure

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Francis of AssisiThursday in the 26th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Job 19:21-27 Luke 10:1-12 Ite : ecce ego mitto vos sicut agnos inter lupos. Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor…

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Vincent de PaulThursday ihthe 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Luke 9:7-9 Deus, qui sacrae legis omnia constituta in tua et proximi dilectione posuisti… O God, whou founded all the commands of your sacred Law upon love of you and of our neighbor… As…

  • So Very Much Love

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Sts Andrew Kim Tae-gon, & Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, MartyrsThursday in the 24th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 7:36-50 Remittuntur ei peccata multa, quoniam dilexit multum. Cui autem minus dimittitur, minus diligit.Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to…

  • The Courthouse at Apophatics.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomThursday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 8:1B-7, 11-13 Luke 6:27-38 Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. There is…

  • The Subversive Wedding Feast

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 36:23-28 Matthew 22:1-14 Simile factum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui fecit nuptias filio suo.Similar is the Kingdom of Heaven to a man who was king, who made a wedding for his Son. In this story, the kingdom of God…

  • A Perfectly Timely Parable

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 12:1-12 Matthew 18:21–19:1 Serve nequam, omne debitum dimisi tibi quoniam rogasti me : nonne ergo oportuit et te misereri conservi tui, sicut et ego tui misertus sum? You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you…

  • Here is Deep Water

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Joachim and Anna, Grandparents of GodThursday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 Matthew 13:10-17 Obstupescite, caeli, super hoc : et portae ejus, desolamini vehementer, dicit Dominus. Duo enim mala fecit populus meus : me derelinquerunt fontem aquae vivae, et foderunt sibi cisternas,…

  • Not even a pocket handkerchief

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 11:1-4, 8E-9 Matthew 10:7-15 Gratis accepistis, gratis date. Nolite possidere aurum, neque argentum, neque pecuniam in zonis vestris : non peram in via, neque duas tunicas, neque calceamenta, neque virgam : dignus enim est operarius cibo suo. You received without…