Category: Lectionary B2

  • Ite ad Ioseph

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 4 Advent (Year 2): II Kings (2 Samuel) 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 Vade, et loquere ad servum meum David: Hæc dicit Dominus: Numquid tu ædificabis mihi domum ad habitandum? Quare non ædificastis mihi domum cedrinam?Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt…

  • 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…

  • Why We’re Doomed

    Buy Nothing Christmas! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday 3 Advent (Year 2): 1 Samuel 1:24-28 Luke 1:46-56 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo; Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede,   et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis,   et divites dimisit inanes. He has shown the strength of his arm, and has scattered the proud…

  • Belushi, Geer, and God… (ok, and Solomon.)

    Chagall’s Song of Solomon 1958 ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 3 Advent (Year 2): Song of Songs 2:8-14 Luke 1:39-45 Similis est dilectus meus capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum. En ipse stat post parietem nostrum, respiciens per fenestras, prospiciens per cancellos. En dilectus meus loquitur mihi. SPONSUS: Columba mea, in foraminibus petræ, in caverna maceriæ, ostende…

  • Thus was fulfilled.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Audite ergo, domus David. Numquid parum vobis est molestos esse hominibus, quia molesti estis et Deo meo? Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum: ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel. Hear ye therefore, O house of David:…

  • But. But. I want to know…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Judges 13:2-7, 24-25A Luke 1:5-25 Unde hoc sciam?  Whereby shall I know this? John is the last prophet. There are no prophets after John the Baptist because Jesus is the fulfillment of the prophets. God needs no other voice because God has spoken finally and…

  • Is God’s Navel an Inney or an Outey?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 3 Advent (Year 2): Jeremiah 23:5-8 Matthew 1:18-25 Hoc autem totum factum est, ut adimpleretur quod dictum est a Domino per prophetam dicentem: Ecce virgo in utero habebit, et pariet filium: et vocabunt nomen ejus Emmanuel, quod est interpretatum Nobiscum Deus. Now all this was done that it might…

  • It’s Better Than the Alternative

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 3 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 61:1-2A, 10-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28 Gaudens gaudebo in Domino, et exsultabit anima mea in Deo meo, quia induit me vestimentis salutis, et indumento justitiæ circumdedit me, quasi sponsum decoratum corona, et quasi sponsam ornatam monilibus suis. I will greatly rejoice in…

  • I know I am, but what are You?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 41:13-20 Matthew 11:11-15 Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church Egeni et pauperes quærunt aquas, et non sunt; lingua eorum siti aruit. Ego Dominus exaudiam eos, Deus Israël, non derelinquam eos. The needy and the poor seek for…

  • This time I got away with it! Right?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 40:25-31 Matthew 11:28-30 Memorial of St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Quare dicis, Jacob, et loqueris, Israël: Abscondita est via mea a Domino, et a Deo meo judicium meum transivit? Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the…

  • Send the Rich Away.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Tuesday 2 Advent): Apocalyps 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Luke 1:39-47 Et signum magnum apparuit in cælo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim… And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and…

  • It just fell through, bang smash!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 5:17-26 Lætabitur deserta et invia, et exsultabit solitudo, et florebit quasi lilium. Germinans germinabit, et  lætabunda et laudans. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. It shall bud forth…

  • Flame. It… Flames

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 2 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 II Peter 3:8-14 Mark 1:1-8 Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur: in quo cæli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt opera, exurentur.  But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in…

  • 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…

  • Ye who own the faith of Jesus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception: Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Ave gratia plena: Dominus tecum.Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you. Unto whomst (as all the cool kiddies say on Twitter) else has the Lord ever said “Full of Grace”? Unto which of the…