Category: Lectionary B2

  • The Oneness of God

    The Oneness of God

    The readings for the 31st Sunday Tempus per Annum (Year B): – Deuteronomy 6:2-6 – Hebrews 7:23-28 – Mark 12:28b-34 שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְיְ אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְיְ אֶחָֽד Hear Israel the Lord Our God, the Lord is One. (Please note that LORD indicates the divine name was used in the Hebrew text.) Reading the Gospel we are…

  • Pro Invicem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 5:21-33 Luke 13:18-21 Subjecti invicem in timore Christi. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.  Paul opens up this passage with a command that gets lost in the shuffle of modern political readings of scripture. Focus on…

  • My Face Hurts…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 4:32-5:8 Luke 13:10-17 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos : aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quae ad rem non pertinet : sed magis gratiarum actio.But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,…

  • All are welcome!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 3:14-21 Luke 12:49-53 In caritate radicati, et fundati, ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quae sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum : scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.That you, being rooted and…

  • All I Want is My Fair Share

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:1-10 Luke 12:13-21 Videte, et cavete ab omni avaritia… Take heed and beware of all covetousness… The Gospel is messy: it doesn’t color between the lines we’ve drawn. Who in this brief Gospel story of familial dysfunction gets your sympathy?…

  • Lord, can we ask you something?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 Magister, volumus ut quodcumque petierimus, facias nobis. Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us. This came up last night at St Dominic’s. It was a surprise to realize, but the…

  • The Apostolic Life

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Luke, Apostle and EvangelistThursday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Timothy 4:10-17B Luke 10:1-9 Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta, et neminem per viam salutaveritis.Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. I hear lamentations that some…

  • I got my Liberty License

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the memorial of St Theresa of Avila, Doctor of the ChurchMonday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 4:22 – 5:1 Luke 11:29-32 Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillae filii, sed liberae : qua libertate Christus nos liberavit. State, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. So then, brethren, we…

  • 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…

  • What Spirit is We Should Be.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:1-5 Luke 11:5-13 O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit non obedire veritati, ante quorum oculos Jesus Christus praescriptus est, in vobis crucifixus? Sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu coeperitis, nunc carne consummemini? O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that…

  • Don’t Dubia The Import of This

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…

  • Sit Anathema Sit

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 1:6-12 Luke 10:25-37 Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.Paul is reaching out to the Galatian churches. (Galatians = Gauls =…

  • The Greatest Adventure

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Francis of AssisiThursday in the 26th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Job 19:21-27 Luke 10:1-12 Ite : ecce ego mitto vos sicut agnos inter lupos. Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor…

  • Fisking St James

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Numbers 11:25-29 Jas 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Remember that we – in the USA – are the rich. Doesn’t matter how much you earn, doesn’t matter how much you make or how…

  • Poets of the Logos

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 Luke 8:19-21 Mater mea et fratres mei hi sunt, qui verbum Dei audiunt et faciunt.My Mother and Brothers are those who are hearing and doing the Word of God.Jesus, like his brother, James, makes much of those who…