Category: lectionary C1
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Every Fire Burns Differently
The Readings for the 33rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (c1) Malachi 3:19-20A 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12 Luke 21:5-19 Et morte afficient ex vobis : et capillus de capite vestro non peribit. They will put some of you to death…but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. Our readings today are from very apocalyptic texts.…
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Like Hanukkah in November
The Readings for the 31st Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1) 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-38 Parati sumus mori, magis quam patrias Dei leges praevaricari.We are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. Here are sons of whom a Mother can be rightfully proud!…
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The Amazon in Burning
The Readings for the 31st Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 13:8-10 Luke 14:25-33 Nemini quidquam debeatis, nisi ut invicem diligatis : qui enim diligit proximum, legem implevit. Dilectio proximi malum non operatur. Plenitudo ergo legis est dilectio.Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the…
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What really scares you?
The Readings for the 30th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:31-39 Luke 13:31-35 Certus sum enim quia neque mors, neque vita, neque angeli, neque principatus, neque virtutes, neque instantia, neque futura, neque fortitudo, neque altitudo, neque profundum, neque creatura alia poterit nos separare a caritate Dei, quae est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro. For…
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Salvific Synergy of SIn
If everyone gets in, God wins. I call it the God Wins Law.
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SNAFU
Our greatest boons become our greatest banes. The more we prop up, the more falls down. Yet we continue, refusing to listen.
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Fake News & Latin Rite Baptists
The Readings for the Feast of Sts Simon and Jude, Apostles Ephesians 2:19-22 Luke 6:12-16 Estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei, superaedificati super fundamentum apostolorum, et prophetarum, ipso summo angulari lapide Christo Jesu : Liberavit me Dominus ab omni opere malo : et salvum faciet in regnum suum caeleste, cui gloria in saecula saeculorum. Amen.…
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This Line Runs Through the Human Heart
I know the Pharisee is the Bad Guy: but how we end up praying like him is important.
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Theodicy
The readings for the 29th Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:1-11 Luke 13:1-9 Putatis quod hi Galilaei prae omnibus Galilaeis peccatores fuerint, quia talia passi sunt? Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? Back in 1985, I took a year off college.…
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Mercy and Justice have Kissed
We tend to argue about matters of leisure (such as sex) because otherwise, we might have to discuss the injustice arising from our wealth.
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In which I find myself agreeing with Jack Chick…
The NABRE text might as well say, “Jesus only rolled his eyes and said ‘Oy’ whilst making a ‘W’ with his fingers.”
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War, Sex, and Weather
The more wealth Israel accumulated, the more injustice they practiced. The one begot the other which begot more of the first.
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Put your Hand to the Plough
In our modern, rootless and cosmopolitan world, we need to be rootless to serve the God we follow, we are following Jesus.
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AEEEEEEE-LEEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAAAA!
✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomFriday in the 23rd week Tempus per Annum (C1) 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 Luke 6:39-42 Numquid potest caecus caecum ducere? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt? Non est discipulus super magistrum : perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus.Can a blind person guide a blind…
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…I met a man with seven wives…
If we are united to Christ and share in the fullness of God-stuff (as we noted yesterday) then it’s all done, right? No. For what we discover if we pay any attention to ourselves is that there are a lot of things present in us that seem to have a certain quality of “B.C.” How…
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