Category: Fer5

  • Totally Scooped by the Bishop

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Mark 1:40-45 If you were reading along yesterday, you may be thinking I was in a Dark Spiral of some sort, and you’d be right. I was totally going somewhere with this, but I hadn’t noticed that this is also…

  • Belushi, Geer, and God… (ok, and Solomon.)

    Chagall’s Song of Solomon 1958 ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 3 Advent (Year 2): Song of Songs 2:8-14 Luke 1:39-45 Similis est dilectus meus capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum. En ipse stat post parietem nostrum, respiciens per fenestras, prospiciens per cancellos. En dilectus meus loquitur mihi. SPONSUS: Columba mea, in foraminibus petræ, in caverna maceriæ, ostende…

  • I know I am, but what are You?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 41:13-20 Matthew 11:11-15 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church Egeni et pauperes quærunt aquas, et non sunt; lingua eorum siti aruit. Ego Dominus exaudiam eos, Deus Israël, non derelinquam eos. The needy and the poor seek for…

  • When in Rome…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Dixit Jesus: Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom…

  • The Voices in My Head

    Today’s Readings: I Thessalonians 3:7-13 Matthew 24:42-51 Vigilate ergo, quia nescitis qua hora Dominus vester venturus sit. Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Matthew 24:42 I have my phone, essentially, turned off all the time. I have my spam filters on high on my email. I never…

  • The Bible Fulfilled.

    Today’s Readings: Revelation 21:9b-14 John 1:45-51 “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” John 1:45b I wrote the text about the Blessed Virgin earlier this week, using this text as a model; the text, per the NCRegister, of the video…

  • To Them It Has Not Been Granted

    Today’s readings: Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20B Matthew 13:10-17 Because knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. Matthew 13:11 I am coming to you in a dense cloud,  so that when the people hear me speaking with you,  they may always…

  • Iesu, Iesu, Iesu, esto mihi Iesu.

    Today’s Readings: Acts 5:27-33 John 3:31-36 Obedire oportet Deo magis quam hominibus. We must obey God rather than men.  Acts 5:29b First off I suck at this. I try to get better. But I suck at it. This is my brief meditation today: The Martyrs of England are a better model for us today than…

  • Fer’im R Agin’im?

    Today’s readings: Jeremiah 7:23-28 Luke 11:14-23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.Qui non est mecum, contra me est: et qui non colligit mecum, dispergit.Luke 11:23 This verse is often contrasted with Luke 9:50, which seems to say the reverse:Whoever is not against you is for…

  • Take Up and Deny

    A Patristic Homily for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday.From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Bede the Venerable, Gregory the Great, and Theophylact, and also of Origen, the Teacher of the Fathers.If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up…