Category: lectionary C1
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Abolish or Fulfill? Abolish or Fulfill?
✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Matthew 5:17-19 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. There are no answers in this blog post. Some of us will hear a sermon…
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A Lullaby
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Monday in the week after Pentecost (C1) The 10th week of Ordinary Time Genesis 3:9-15, 20 John 19:25-34 Behold your mother…The Magnificat is sung every night at Vespers in the western liturgy. It is sung at Matins in the East. This can mean 9AM in a parish church, but properly sung, it is well before dawn…
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Standing outside the fire.
The Apostles and St Paul, window at St Dominic’s, SF. ✙ JMJ The Readings for Pentecost Sunday: Acts 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3B-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23 The doors were locked where the disciples were for fear. This is how I know this is all true: the disciples were locked in a room in fear and in just 30 years they…
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A Trick of the Tongue
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; I am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”…
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Are you a hacker?
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter: Acts 20:17-27 John 17:1-11a What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my…
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Stick a fork in me, I’m done.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saint Charles Lwanga & Companions, MartyrsMonday in the 7th Week of Easter: II Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 Matthew 5:1-12 It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.The feast of…
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Image and Likeness
✙ JMJ Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension: Acts 7:55-60 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John 17:20-26 …so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one…I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that…
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I must go see my cousin
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Visitation: Zephaniah 3:14-18 Luke 1:39-56 He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.I’m going to pick this up where I left off last…
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Paul gets all up in the Pagan Air
No, no! That’s the wrong Damon… +J+M+J+ The Readings for Wednesday in the 6th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:15, 22-18:1 John 16:12-15 I see that in every respect you are very religious… Paul’s word for “religious” is δεισιδαιμονεστέρους deisidaimonesteros. This is the only place in the Greek scriptures where it is used. It means…
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Neither fish nor fowl.
The Heavenly Banquet? +J+M+J+ The Readings for 6th Sunday of Easter (C1) Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 John 14:23-29 The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb. If you paid any attention to the passage from Revelation…
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It’s only a little pinch.
Bl. Stanley Rother, God’s Friend. +J+M+J+ The Readings for Saturday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 16:1-10 John 15:18-21 I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Once, a long, long time ago, it seems to me now, in a religious galaxy far, far away I sat in a class…
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Friendzoned by Jesus.
+J+M+J+ The Readings for Friday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 I call you friends… This gets sentimentalized sometimes. Sometimes overly so. I remember when Jesus calling us (me) his friends used to cause me to wax poetical about Plato, David and Jonathan, and about someone important in my life.…
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Annuntio Vobis Gaudium Magnum!
+J+M+J+ The Readings for Thursday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:7-21 John 15:9-11 I have told you this so that… your joy might be complete. Jesus said this just before he went out to die. You know this and I do too, but we often forget it. If you’re not happy, some would…
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Nothing is strong. Very Strong.
+J+M+J+ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th week of Easter (C1) Acts 15:1-6 John 15:1-8 Without me you can do nothing. St Thomas Aquinas calls God the root of being, itself. God’s being is the very beingness of everything. St John says that God is love. That means the very beingness of the entire…
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