Category: lectionary C1

  • All the fullness

    The NABRE gets the Greek text here better than a good many Protestant Bibles: Christ is filled with the πλήρωμα pleroma, the fullness of the θεότης theotes, the “God-stuff” and in him, we share in this πλήρωμα as well. This would be horrifying to most modern Protestants, although the Wesley brothers, at least, along with…

  • Nec laudibus nec timore

    Nec laudibus nec timore

    Moloch by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra ✙JMJ The Readings for the 21st Sunday Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Contendite intrare per angustam portam  Strive to enter by the narrow gate All these readings tie together: it’s like someone had planned it or something. This morning in the office of readings, we got a…

  • The Call Came From INSIDE THE HOUSE!

    The Call Came From INSIDE THE HOUSE!

    JMJ Did you ever notice this one?  “The Son of Man will send his angels,and they will collect out of his Kingdomall who cause others to sin”Matthew 13:41 I read the Gospel for today and didn’t even notice it. Sitting at Mass tonight this verse lept up and punched me hard in the gut. The…

  • Face to Face

    Face to Face

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 17th week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28 Matthew 13:36-43 Loquebatur autem Dominus ad Moysen facie ad faciem, sicut solet loqui homo ad amicum suum. The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to his friend. The Hebrew word used…

  • The Leaders they Deserve

    The Leaders they Deserve

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St MarthaMonday in the 17th week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 John 11:19-27 Cui ille respondit : Ne indignetur dominus meus : tu enim nosti populum istum, quod pronus sit ad malum.And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people,…

  • Looking Trough a Cloud Darkly

    Looking Trough a Cloud Darkly

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 16th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Exodus 14:21-15:1 Matthew 12:46-50 In the night watch just before dawn the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic. If you read Gone with the Wind you get a…

  • Actually He Did Say That

    Actually He Did Say That

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 15th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1): Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Si tamen audieris vocem Domini Dei tui, et custodieris praecepta ejus et caeremonias, quae in hac lege conscripta sunt. If thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written…

  • What Do You Fear?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26A Matthew 10:24-33 Si patremfamilias Beelzebub vocaverunt, quanto magis domesticos ejus? Nolite timere eos qui occidunt corpus, animam autem non possunt occidere.If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household? Do not be…

  • Mira! El Otro!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 Matthew 10:16-23 Tradet autem frater fratrem in mortem, et pater filium: et insurgent filii in parentes, et morte eos afficient: et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum: qui autem perseveraverit usque in finem, hic salvus erit. Brother will hand over…

  • Impossible.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Benedict, AbbotThursday in the 13th week Tempus Per Annum (C1) Genesis 44:18-21, 23B-29; 45:1-5 Matthew 10:7-15 Pro salute enim vestra misit me Deus ante vos in Aegyptum.It was for your salvation that God sent me before you into Egypt. Yesterday’s writing may have seemed a bit out…

  • The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7A, 17-24A Matthew 10:1-7 Merito haec patimur, quia peccavimus in fratrem nostrum, videntes angustiam animae illius, dum deprecaretur nos, et non audivimus : idcirco venit super nos ista tribulatio. We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against…

  • Love different

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 32:23-33 Matthew 9:32-38 Nequaquam, inquit, Jacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israel : quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti, quanto magis contra homines praevalebis?Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much…

  • Waiting at the Bottom of the Ladder

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 14th week, Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 28:10-22a Matthew 9:18-26 Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you… Jacob sees all that’s going on and suddenly “…there was the LORD standing…

  • Towering O’er the Wrecks of Time

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:10-14C Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  Disciples become Apostles. You never stop being a disciple of…

  • In the Howling Wastes

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 13th week Per Tempus Annum (C1) Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 Matthew 9:14-17 Isaac asked, “Which of my sons are you?” Jacob answered his father:  “I am Esau, your first-born.” God used Jacob: he was the second born son rather than the preference of Patriarchs who want the oldest boy. Think about…