Category: Lectionary C2

  • Turn, turn, turn, will be our death.

    Turn, turn, turn, will be our death.

    The Readings for the 15th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 7:1-9 Matthew 11:20-24 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. Matthew 11:21 WHOA, there! Jesus is being rather…

  • Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

    Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

    The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Matthew 10:40 THIS WHOLE PASSAGE can seem strange. Swords, dysfunctional family fighting, etc. Ranks up there with the cut off your hands and…

  • Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Jesus’ bloody feet we track

    Memorial of St Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs Readings for 7th Friday after Easter (C2) Acts 25:13b-21 John 21:15-19 He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” John 21:19 OUR LORD SAYS TO St Peter, “Follow me.” It…

  • One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    One in the Spirit, One in the Lord

    Readings for 7th Thursday after Easter (C2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 …so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me,…

  • The Opposite of Acedia

    The Opposite of Acedia

    Readings for 7th Wednesday after Easter (C2) Acts 20:28-38 John 17:11b-19 I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is…

  • Now with 20% Less Mercy

    John J McNeill – in need of a corrective. ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 6th Week of Easter: Acts 18:23-28 John 16:23b-28 Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God more accurately. Took him aside and explained… we nearly never do that these…

  • Movin on Up!

    +J+M+J+ The Readings for Ascension Day Acts 1:1-11 Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23 Luke 24:46-53 …the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, his flesh… On the calendar of some ecclesial Jurisdictions, today is the Ascension. Others will commemorate it on the Sunday within the Octave. Catholicism, like Orthodoxy, has calendar issues…

  • IT’S A

    Revelation 22:1-7Luke 21:34-36 Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.Luke 21:34 Jesus was quite aware of our weakened human mental map. He knows that it is the “anxieties of daily life” that lead us…

  • Indeed, it’s Just a Pinch

    Revelation 20:1-4, 11—21:2Luke 21:29-33 I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls. The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades…

  • Dont Ruin Thanksgiving!

    Ben Sira 50:22-24I Corinthians 1:3-9Luke 17:11-19 Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?Luke 17:18 The NABRE renders this as “give thanks to God” but the Greek, the Latin, and just about every other translation says “give glory to God” or “give praise”. I think it could easily be “give worship to…

  • Little Purple Seeds of Fire

    Revelation 15:1-4Luke 21:12-19 You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.Luke 21:16-19 Near the…

  • Lectio Apocalypse!

    Revelation 14:14-19Luke 21:5-11 “Use your sickle and reap the harvest, for the time to reap has come, because the earth’s harvest is fully ripe.” So the one who was sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.Revelation 14:15b-16 Your host honestly got excited Monday morning when Pope Francis…

  • Go to the Temple, then this happened!

    Revelation 14:1-3, 4b-5Luke 21:1-4I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.Luke 21:3b-4 Today is the memorial of the Entry of Our Lady into the Temple. To me this…

  • Ecce Rex Noster Dilecto

    II Samuel 5:1-3Colossians 1:12-20Luke 23:35-43 When I went away to college, my freshman year, I was at an Evangelical liberal arts college called “The King’s College“. Two guys named David shared the room with me. A huge bunch of stuff had been given to me to go to college with, but one thing I asked…

  • These Three are One

    Revelation 11:4-12Luke 20:27-40 …those who deny that there is a resurrection…Luke 20:27 The Sadducees insisted on the literal meaning of the text, following only the first five books of the Bible (excluding the Prophets, the Wisdom books, and the Historical books from their sense of “Scripture”). They also insisted there was no bodily resurrection, no…