Category: Lectionary A2

  • Sock it to me, God

    Sock it to me, God

    The Readings for the 23rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A) Jeremiah 20:7-9Romans 12:1-2Matthew 16:21-27 AYEAR AGO I weighed 300 lbs. This was a symbolic weight for me as sometime in the 1980s, in my mid20s, I had said to someone, “If I ever get to 300 pounds you can shoot me.” At the time I…

  • Jonah’s New Signs

    Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (A2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 No sign will be given except the sign of Jonah. Wake up this morning was to news about the Pope’s Lenten Retreat on the Holy Prophet Jonah. This story from the scriptures was, therefore, on my mind as I went to…

  • Love Hurts

    The Readings for the 7th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 Your heavenly Father… makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. I wanted to talk today about the Curious change when Jesus quotes from…

  • Think Different

    The Readings for the 3rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Isaiah 8:23-9:3 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 Matthew 4:12-23 Paenitentiam agite; appropinquavit enim regnum caelorum.Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent, says Jesus. Jerome’s Latin renders this poenitentiam agite which means “do penance” but it may be a typo of sorts as “paenitentiam”…

  • You’re doing it wrong

    The Readings for the 1st Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (A2) 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Factum est autem, cum illa multiplicaret preces coram Domino, ut Heli observaret os ejus. Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Aestimavit ergo eam Heli temulentam, dixitque ei : Usquequo ebria eris?…

  • Manifest Destiny

    The Readings for the Epiphany (A2) Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 Gentes esse cohaeredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per EvangeliumGentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Rome knew what it was like to be the Chosen…

  • Indefectibili Foedere

    The Readings for the 3rd Monday in Advent (A2) Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17A Matthew 21:23-27 Dixit auditor sermonum Dei, qui visionem Omnipotentis intuitus est, qui cadit, et sic aperiuntur oculi ejus :The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured,…

  • Gaudete

    The Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent (A2) Isaiah 35:1-6A, 10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 Tu es, qui venturus es, an alium exspectamus?Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? You know what? Life is not like we post it on Facebook. It’s ugly. The vast majority sees the world…

  • I wish we’d all been ready.

    The Readings for the 1st Sunday of Advent Isaiah 2:1-5 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:37-44 Induamini Dominum Jesum Christum, et carnis curam ne feceritis in desideriis. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences. In case you’ve missed it, I’ve been on a diet. After trying several…