Category: Lectionary B2

  • When in Rome…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Dixit Jesus: Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom…

  • It’s all sin. Come and feast.

    Happy St Nicholas Day! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 25:6-10A Matthew 15:29-37 Et accesserunt ad eum turbæ multæ, habentes secum mutos, cæcos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos: et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos.Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed,…

  • The American Way: Something about the Reaping…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 11:1-10 Luke 10:21-24 Quod abscondisti hæc a sapientibus et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.  Thou hast hidden all this from the wise and the prudent, and revealed it to little children. Monty Pythons, Meaning of Life, Part VII, Death. Death walks into a rural…

  • Well. Isn’t That Special.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 2:1-5 Matthew 8:5-11 I heard a sermon on this passage once where the Centurion’s servant was called his lover. At that time, I did a search (I think it was called “Ask Jeeves” in that century, or maybe Yahoo) and I found no resources…

  • See the Watch Swing Back and Forth

      + JMJ The Readings for Sunday 1 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 Videte vigilate et orate nescitis enim quando tempus sit Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. The first Sunday of Advent is the first Sunday of the Church…

  • A New (Old) Commitment

    15 years ago I started a daily post on the assigned readings in the ECUSA Daily Office.  It was a two year commitment, and I made it all the way through. Most weeks I missed one day (some weeks 2), and if I went on vacation, I announced the downtime. This process involved research and…