Category: jewish roots
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Light just one candle
SOMETIME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Catskill Mountains I learned that Hanukkah was not “Jewish Christmas” but something else. The local library had a book sale, I came across a little book called The Hannukah Book, by Mae Shafter Rockland, published in 1975 and influenced by the Peace MovementTM. I still have it – although…
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Be the Mikveh
And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. – Matthew 8:3He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ – John 7:38Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will…
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The Wholly Name
The Readings for the 23rd Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. Luke 6:19 (NABRE) WHEN THE ANGEL Spoke to Mary (in Luke 1:32) she was told she would have a Son and she should call him Jesus. Later,…
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St Mary in the Sabbath
IN THE WESTERN DAILY OFFICE and Mass there is a tradition of commemorating the Blessed Virgin on Saturdays outside of Lent. There are propers for the office as well as for votive Masses offered on these days. In the older Western Rite, this commemoration began with Vespers on Friday night with a special hymn and…
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Secundum Legem Moysi
✙ JMJ The Readings Feast of the Purification of the BVM Malachi 3:1-4 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis ejus secundum legem Moysi, tulerunt illum in Jerusalem, ut sisterent eum Domino et ut darent hostiam secundum quod dictum est in lege Domini, par turturum, aut duos pullos columbarum.After the days of her…
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