Category: Lectionary B2

  • Dīvide et Impera

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11  John 17:20-26 Viri fratres, ego pharisaeus sum, filius pharisaeorum, de spe et resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor.Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Philip of Macedonia,…

  • May not be a Bruce Lee quote. But it’s true.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:28-38  John 17:11b-19 Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. There’s this great line in St Catherine’s…

  • Tante Corrie Knows

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:17-27  John 17:1-11a Sed nihil horum vereor : nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi, quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiae Dei.But I fear none of these things, neither do I count…

  • Once there was a Pentarchy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Matthias, ApostleMonday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 1:15-17, 20-26  John 15:9-17 Et dederunt sortes eis, et cecidit sors super Mathiam, et annumeratus est cum undecim Apostolis. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the…

  • Filling All Things with Light

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Ascension (B2) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 4:1-13 Mark 16:15-20 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terrae? Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos, ut…

  • So, about this wall…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…

  • I am divine, you are dibranches.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6  John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • I in you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 5th Sunday of Easter (B2) Among the Dominicans, The Feast of St Catherine of Siena Acts 8:26-31 1 John 3:18-24  John 15:1-8 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ehe Catechism Tjus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum…We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one…

  • Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25  John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…

  • Here Kitty, Kitty.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Mark, EvangelistWednesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) 1 Peter 5:5B-14  Mark 16:15-20 Sobrii estote, et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret : cui resistite fortes in fide.Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about…

  • Hanukkah in the Nile.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 11:19-26  John 10:22-30 Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.  The Feast of the Dedication. Jesus is chilling in the temple…

  • I want you. To want me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 7:51—8:1A  John 6:30-35 Ego sum panis vitae.I am the bread of life.In the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer 1979 there is a Eucharistic Anaphora that includes the lines:  Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this table for solace only and…

  • When the heart is ready the teacher will come.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 5:34-42  John 6:1-15 Surgens autem quidam in concilio pharisaeus, nomine Gamaliel, legisdoctor, honorabilis universae plebi, jussit foras ad breve homines fieri, dixitque ad illos…But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by…

  • Verba Vitae

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Wednesday of Easter (B2) Acts 5:17-26  John 3:16-21 Ite, et stantes loquimini in templo plebi omnia verba vitae hujus. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. What are omnia verba vitae hujus? What are all the words of this life? Is this…