Category: Fer7

  • Where you from?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) The Commemoration of St Patrick, Apostle to Ireland.  Jeremiah 11:18-20 John 7:40-53 Numquid et tu Galilaeus es?Art thou also a Galilean?An Anglican clergyman once told me that whenever he heard a Southern Drawl he immediately assumed he was talking to someone unlearned.…

  • God’s Bearhugging Boy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20  Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Erant autem appropinquantes ei publicani, et peccatores ut audirent illum. Et murmurabant pharisaei, et scribae, dicentes : Quia hic peccatores recipit, et manducat cum illis. Et ait ad illos parabolam istam.Now the publicans and sinners drew…

  • THEM

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Matthew 5:43-48 Ego autem dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos.But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute…

  • True Pastor, True Mercy, True Food

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 3:4-13 Mark 6:30-34 Et ait illis : Venite seorsum in desertum locum, et requiescite pusillum. Erant enim qui veniebant et redibant multi : et nec spatium manducandi habebant. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little.…

  • The Benedict Option

    If I Werrr King of the Forrrrressssht ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2): II Samuel 12:1-7A, 10-17 Mark 4:35-41 Et ait illis : Quid timidi estis? necdum habetis fidem? And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?July 4th, 1981,  I was sitting behind the elementary…

  • The Love that Dares not Speak Its Name

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  II Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 Mark 3:20-21 Doleo super te, frater mi Jonatha, decore nimis, et amabilis super amorem mulierum.I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women.When I was a kid it…

  • Saul and Matthew

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 Mark 2:13-17 Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester? Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners?The Latin does render it very enjoyably, no? “Why, with publicans and sinners, eats and drinks this Master…

  • Christmas in Purgatory

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday 3 Advent (Year 2): Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24 Luke 1:57-66 Et quis poterit cogitare diem adventus ejus, et quis stabit ad videndum eum? ipse enim quasi ignis conflans. And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he…

  • How to Win at Quidditch by Trying Really Hard.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5A, 6-8 Erunt oculi tui videntes præceptorem tuum. Et aures tuæ audient verbum post tergum monentis: Hæc est via; ambulate in ea, et non declinetis neque ad dexteram, neque ad sinistram. With your own eyes you shall see your Teacher, While…

  • How not to be a useless servant

    Today’s Readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-11 Matthew 25:14-30 Et inutilem servum ejicite in tenebras exteriores. Throw this useless servant into the darkness outside Matthew 25:30a We all have gifts. Some of us use them. Some of us run away from them. I posted this a day or two ago, from Cardinal Newman: God has created me…

  • Scribes AND Pharisees

    Today’s readings: Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 Matthew 23:1-12 Dicunt enim, et non faciunt For they preach but they do not practice. Matthew 23:3b Oh this is so rich. The Greek word play is between “using words” (logos) and “making” (poetas). They use their words, yeah, but they’re certainly not poets… As a Catholic (and before,…

  • Lo, Mercy is Feasting.

    A Patristic Homily for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday. From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts Bede the Venerable, Cyril, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Theophylact. Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? Luke and Mark, for the honor of the Evangelist, are silent as to his…