Category: Fer5

  • Temples of the Nation

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 13th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Amos 7:10-17  Matthew 9:1-8 Et dixit Amasias ad Amos : Qui vides, gradere : fuge in terram Juda, et comede ibi panem, et prophetabis ibi. Et in Bethel non adjicies ultra ut prophetes, quia sanctificatio regis est, et domus regni est. And Amazi’ah…

  • Lord I’ve Done Some Yuge Things Here.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Memorial of St Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr 2 Kings 24:8-17  Matthew 7:21-29 Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum caelorum. Not all who say to me, Lord! Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.Don’t let anyone tell you that all…

  • O Fellowship Divine

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Sirach 48:1-14  Matthew 6:7-15 Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt.Elias quidem in turbine tectus estBlessed is he who shall have seen you And who falls asleep in your friendship.O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind!I’ve been feeling out this huge…

  • Lord, it’s hard to be humble.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:41-46  Matthew 5:20-26 Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altare, et ibi recordatus fueris quia frater tuus habet aliquid adversum te : relinque ibi munus tuum ante altare, et vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo : et tunc veniens offeres munus tuum. So…

  • What’s your cross?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 9th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2nd Timothy 2:8-15  Mark 12:28-34 Si commortui sumus, et convivemus : si sustinebimus, et conregnabimus : si negaverimus, et ille negabit nos : si non credimus, ille fidelis permanet, negare seipsum non potest.If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we…

  • But our Money says “In God We Trust…”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:1-6  Mark 9:41-50 Ecce merces operariorum, qui messuerunt regiones vestras, quae fraudata est a vobis, clamat : et clamor eorum in aures Domini sabbaoth introivit. Epulati estis super terram, et in luxuriis enutristis corda vestra in die occisionis.  Behold, the wages of the…

  • Dīvide et Impera

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11  John 17:20-26 Viri fratres, ego pharisaeus sum, filius pharisaeorum, de spe et resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor.Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Philip of Macedonia,…

  • Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25  John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…

  • Sola Scriptura Anonymous

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts  3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…

  • There’s gotta be an easier way…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Exodus 32:7-14 John 5:31-47 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : Vade, descende : peccavit populus tuus, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti.And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the…

  • My Own Private Lazarus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) St David of Wales Jeremiah 17:5-10 Luke 16:19-31 Homo quidam erat dives… There was a certain rich man… We have a huge homeless problem in San Francisco. The problem is we have a huge, wealthy population that’s scared of homeless people.They are scared…

  • What I did for Love

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Thursday of Ordinary Time (B2)  I Kings 11:4-13  Mark 7:24-30 Tunc aedificavit Salomon fanum Chamos, idolo Moab, in monte qui est contra Jerusalem, et Moloch idolo filiorum Ammon. Atque in hunc modum fecit universis uxoribus suis alienigenis, quae adolebant thura, et immolabant diis suis.  Then Solomon built a…

  • Solomon, Boxcar Willie, & Gran’pa

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 2:1-4, 10-12  Mark 6:7-13 ἰσχύσεις καὶ ἔσῃ εἰς ἄνδραconfortare, et esto virוְחָזַקְתָּ֖ וְהָיִ֥יתָֽ לְאִֽיש Take Courage and show yourself a man.This is one of those places where the Greek of the LXX, the Masoretic Hebrew, the Latin of Jerome and the…

  • Saul. Saul…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Conversion of St PaulThursday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Acts 9:1-22  Mark 16:15-18 Ego sum Jesus, quem tu persequeris : durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare.I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.  Kicking against the goad is…

  • Kaine Hora

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Thursday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7  Mark 3:7-12 Non rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat David a die illa et deinceps.And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.The king is very angry at David and he gives him…