Category: homely homily
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Always distinguish.
The Readings for the 16th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 Matthew 12:38-42 You have been told, O human, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 AT TIMES the entirely orthodox language of…
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Come in and sat a spell.
The Readings for the 16th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Genesis 18:1-10a Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 The mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it has been manifested to his holy ones. Colossians 1:26 CLOSING (ALMOST?) EVERY video & podcast they make, the folks over at the Bible Project recite their Doctrinal…
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What Did We Do?
The Readings for the 15th Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Micah 2:1-5 Matthew 12:14-21 On that day a satire shall be sung over you. Micah 2:4a AT THE END OF the wonderful Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Mr Wonka reads the riot act to Charlie and his…
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The Liberal One.
The Readings for the 15th Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor of the Church Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 Matthew 12:1-8 I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. Matthew 12:6 NASTY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE in today’s Gospel are trying to make the Disciples follow their mean nasty rules. Americans…
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Like Jimmy Carter said…
The Readings for the 15th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 Matthew 11:28-30 Your name and your title are the desire of our souls. Isaiah 26:8 NOT REALLY SURE What the lectionary crafters are doing here. The translation “your name and your title” is an odd turn…
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ABBAbandonment Issues
The Readings for the 15th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Henry, King Isaiah 10:5-7, 13B-16 Matthew 11:25-27 No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27b TO WHOM DO YOU PRAY? I’ve been wrestling with this a lot lately. So much Christian…
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Turn, turn, turn, will be our death.
The Readings for the 15th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 7:1-9 Matthew 11:20-24 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. Matthew 11:21 WHOA, there! Jesus is being rather…
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Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.
The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Matthew 10:40 THIS WHOLE PASSAGE can seem strange. Swords, dysfunctional family fighting, etc. Ranks up there with the cut off your hands and…
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Very Near Indeed
The Readings for the 15th Sunday, Tempus per Annum Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” Luke 10:26 LET’S FIRST LOOK at Moses, speaking in Deuteronomy. Our NABRE translation uses the pronoun “it” in verse 14: No, it is something very…
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Mouth on Fire
The Readings for the 14th Saturday, Tempus per AnnumMemorial of St. John of Cologne, OP, & Companions, martyrs Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 10:24-33 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. Isaiah 6:6 DURING THE LITURGIES OF St John Chrysostom and St Basil the…
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Xanadu
The Readings for the 14th Friday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 14:2-10 Matthew 10:16-23 Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking…
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Pauline Slang
The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 66:10-14c Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Galatians 6:15 (NABRE) UNCIRCUMCISION Is such an odd word. Of course, it means “gentile”, that is, person without a circumcision. But that’s really the…
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Worse than 1867
The Readings for the 14th Thursday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 11:1-4, 8E-9 Matthew 10:7-15 Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Matthew 10:15 ¶1867 OF THE CATECHISM is one of those hard ones. It lists the…
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Autobasileia
The Readings for the 14th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 10:6-7 JESUS SENDS His disciples ahead of him to the towns the plans to visit:…
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Wineskins
The Readings for the 13th Saturday, Tempus per Annum Amos 9:11-15 Matthew 9:14-17 The plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed. Amos 9:13 (NABRE) SHABBAT SHALOM! Nerdy side note: in all romance languages, the days are numbered: Day 2, Day 3. Day seven is usually always some form of…
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