Category: Fer7

  • In the Howling Wastes

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 13th week Per Tempus Annum (C1) Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 Matthew 9:14-17 Isaac asked, “Which of my sons are you?” Jacob answered his father:  “I am Esau, your first-born.” God used Jacob: he was the second born son rather than the preference of Patriarchs who want the oldest boy. Think about…

  • Now with 20% Less Mercy

    John J McNeill – in need of a corrective. ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 6th Week of Easter: Acts 18:23-28 John 16:23b-28 Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God more accurately. Took him aside and explained… we nearly never do that these…

  • It’s only a little pinch.

    Bl. Stanley Rother, God’s Friend. +J+M+J+ The Readings for Saturday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:1-10 John 15:18-21 I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Once, a long, long time ago, it seems to me now, in a religious galaxy far, far away I sat in a class…

  • An Ontological Illusion.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:22-29 Luke 11:27-28 Quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis. Non est Judaeus, neque Graecus : non est servus, neque liber : non est masculus, neque femina. Omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Jesu. For as many of you as…

  • Idols of the Post-Moderns

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Our Lady of SorrowsSaturday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 Luke 2:33-35 Sed quae immolant gentes, daemoniis immolant, et non Deo. Nolo autem vos socios fieri daemoniorum : non potestis calicem Domini bibere, et calicem daemoniorum; non potestis mensae Domini participes esse, et mensae daemoniorum.But the things…

  • Noblesse Oblige

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 21st Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Matthew 25:14-30 Sed quae stulta sunt mundi elegit Deus, ut confundat sapientes : et infirma mundi elegit Deus, ut confundat fortia.God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the…

  • As I say. Not as I do.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 43:1-7ab Matthew 23:1-12 Omnia ergo quaecumque dixerint vobis, servate, et facite : secundum opera vero eorum nolite facere : dicunt enim, et non faciunt.Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but…

  • I see your 22, and I raise you 67.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint John Vianney, PriestSaturday in the 17th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24 Matthew 14:1-12 Judicium mortis est viro huic, quia prophetavit adversus civitatem istam, sicut audistis auribus vestris. This man deserves death; he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears. Prophesy against “The…

  • The Abominable Bride

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Jeremiah 7:1-11 Matthew 13:24-30 Liberati sumus, eo quod fecerimus omnes abominationes istas.“We are safe; we can commit all these abominations again” The Hebrew word used in this line for “Abomination” is תּוֹעֵבָה to’evah, a specific class of ritual and societal uncleaness in…

  • How many are you worth?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin.Saturday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 10:24-33 Nonne duo passeres asse veneunt? et unus ex illis non cadet super terram sine Patre vestro. Vestri autem capilli capitis omnes numerati sunt. Nolite ergo timere : multis passeribus meliores estis vos.…

  • So many. So many…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Lamentation 2:2, 10-14, 18-19  Matthew 8:5-7 Et omnes male habentes curavit : And all that were sick he healed And all that were sick, he healed… that “all” there is the Greek word, πάντας pantas,…

  • The yoke’s on Elisha…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:19-21  Matthew 5:33-37 Cumque venisset Elias ad eum, misit pallium suum super illum qui statim relictis bobus cucurrit post Eliam. Eli’jah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him and [Elisha] left the oxen, and ran after Eli’jah. The call…

  • A Catechesis of Despair.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:13-20  Mark 10:13-16 Et offerebant illi parvulos ut tangeret illos. Discipuli autem comminabantur offerentibus.And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.  When Judgement Day comes many folks who are by human…

  • Light one candle.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 28:16-20, 30-31  John 21:20-25 Domine, hic autem quid?Quid ad te? tu me sequere. Lord, what about him?What is that to you? You follow me.Peter, with a growing sense of… something… turns around and sees the Evangelist John taking notes like some Cub…

  • Sometimes it’s totally needed

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52  John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself.  The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…