Category: Lectionary B2

  • A Community of Christians in Charity with the World

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for in Easter Week (B2) Acts 4:32-37  John 3:7B-15 Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos.For neither was there any one needy among them.They will know we are Christians by our love, y’all.  So where are there needy folks sitting in the pew next to you, or on the bus next…

  • Mamma Don’t Allow no Kyriopascha ‘Round Here

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Annunciation (Transferred) Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10 Hebrews 10:4-10 Luke 1:26-38 Ecce ancilla Domini. Behold the handmaiden of the Lord.Our Mother, the Holy Church of Rome, will not allow a feast or Solemnity to impinge on the period between Palm Sunday and the 2nd Sunday of Easter. Anything that needs to be…

  • Yeah, You Didn’t Build That

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for 2nd Sunday of Easter (Domenica in Albis) (B2) Acts 4:32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20:19-31 Nec quisquam eorum quae possidebat, aliquid suum esse dicebat, sed erant illis omnia communia. Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos: Dividebatur autem singulis prout cuique opus erat.No one said that aught of the things which he…

  • Sola Scriptura Anonymous

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts  3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…

  • Pray the Day Away

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:1-10  Luke 24:13-35 Argentum et aurum non est mihi : quod autem habeo, hoc tibi do .Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee.In a funny book from 1987 called Life: A Warning, by Stephanie Brush, a lacklustre sequel to…

  • Wherein We Reference the Watergate Breakins

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 2:36-41  John 20:11-18 Quia vidi Dominum!I have seen the Lord!The above image is from the TV miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth (1977). It shows Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalen delivering these very words: Quia vidi Dominum! This holy woman (the Magdalen, not Bancroft) is called The Apostle to the…

  • Croquet in Eqypt.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Passion Week (B2) Numbers 21:4-9 John 8:21-30 Cur eduxisti nos de Aegypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? In the Fathers, Egypt is seen as a symbol of our human bondage to sin. The Passover is a…

  • The Strong, Silent Type.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of St Joseph Monday in Passion Week (B2) II Samuel  7:4-5A, 12-14A, 16 Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22  Luke 2:41-51A For this Just Man was given by you a spouse to the Virgin Mother of God and set a s a wise and faithful servant in charge of your…

  • Sacramentum Oboedientiae

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Passion Sunday (B2) Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 Nunc anima mea turbata est. Et quid dicam? Pater, salvifica me ex hac hora. Sed propterea veni in horam hanc : Pater, clarifica nomen tuum.  Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But…

  • Where you from?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) The Commemoration of St Patrick, Apostle to Ireland.  Jeremiah 11:18-20 John 7:40-53 Numquid et tu Galilaeus es?Art thou also a Galilean?An Anglican clergyman once told me that whenever he heard a Southern Drawl he immediately assumed he was talking to someone unlearned.…

  • His Ways are Very Different

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2)  Wisdom 2:1A, 12-22 John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Factus est nobis in traductionem cogitationum nostrarum. Gravis est nobis etiam ad videndum, quoniam dissimilis est aliis vita illius, et immutatae sunt viae ejus.He is become a censurer of our thoughts. He is grievous unto us,…

  • There’s gotta be an easier way…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Exodus 32:7-14 John 5:31-47 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : Vade, descende : peccavit populus tuus, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti.And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the…

  • Like a Swiss Army Knife

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 49:8-15  John 5:17-30 Dedi te in foedus populi, ut suscitares terram, et possideres haereditates dissipatas; ut diceres his qui vincti sunt : Exite; et his qui in tenebris : Revelamini. Super vias pascentur, et in omnibus planis pascua eorum.[I have] given thee to…

  • In the Vision-Time

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 John 5:1-16 Certe vidisti, fili hominis?Have you seen this, Son of Man? הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָ֑ם Son of Man in the Latin and English. In Hebrew it’s Son of Adam, like in Narnia. Yes, Adam means “man” and also “earth creature”,…

  • Oh, that guy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent (B2) II Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Non enim misit Deus Filium suum in mundum, ut judicet mundum, sed ut salvetur mundus per ipsum. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be…