Category: lent

  • The Hunger Games

    Westin St Francis Hotel in SF, 1904 ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Tuesday of Ordinary Time (B2) Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras James 1:12-18 Mark 8:14-21 Nemo cum tentatur, dicat quoniam a Deo tentatur : Deus enim intentator malorum est : ipse autem neminem tentat.Let no man, when he is tempted, say that…

  • God’s Family Servants.

    The Holy Family Window, St Joseph, a young Jesus, and the BVM. Today’s readings: Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Matthew 23:1-12 The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.Matthew 23:12 Continuing from yesterday, where Lust is the fruit of Pride, we have today’s reading…

  • Don’t judge me, bro.

    Today’s Readings: Daniel 9:4B-10 Luke 6:36-38 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.Luke 6:36-37a This verse can be thrown in our faces at times. Anytime a comment about morality is made it can turn into a “Don’t judge…

  • The Ur-Leaving

    Today’s readings: Genesis 12:1-4a 2 Timothy 1:8B-10 Matthew 17:1-9 Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.Genesis 12:1b At the Stations of the Cross on Friday night we were meditating on the woes of Migrants, leaving their families and homelands and seeking…

  • Who is my Brethren?

    A Patristic Homily for the Monday in the First Week of Lent. From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Remigius, Gregory the Great, Rabanus, and Origen, the Teacher of the Fathers. Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for…

  • Lo, Mercy is Feasting.

    A Patristic Homily for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday. From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts Bede the Venerable, Cyril, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Theophylact. Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? Luke and Mark, for the honor of the Evangelist, are silent as to his…

  • Why Not Fast?

    A Patristic Homily for the Friday after Ash Wednesday.From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts John Chrysostom, Jerome, Rabanus, Augustine, Hillary. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples fast not?” This is arrogance – to take…

  • Do not Display Yourself

    For the Gospel for Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18): A homily from the works of St John Chrysostom, Bishop. And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Here we do well to sigh aloud, and to wail bitterly: for…