Category: lessthan7
-
Retvrn!
How can you return to your God if you’re not yourself?
-
Crazy 4 Jesus
What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Who (or what) is dying on your cross?
-
What is IS?
What is the value of a human being? Of what is he made that he costs so little and so much?
-
Who Chose Who?
Oil and water never mix. What about the Gentiles and the Chosen?
-
All Things?
When things are good, the will of God seems pretty awesome. How can we talk about the will of God around a dumpster fire like we have now?
-
Wondrous Type
In the process of meditation literature, to be “fulfilled” is not to draw a 1:1 ratio between the accidents of a prediction and their “coming true”. Rather it’s to draw, as it were, a 1:10 ratio between the accidents of the prediction and the new, more-full way they are manifested.
-
Asleep in the Light
How do we balance the idea of “doig good for all” with the secular welfare state and the need to just fiscally support people?
-
The Medium is the Message
The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross (14 Sept 23) 1 Corinthians 1:18-24 (Liturgy) John 19:6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35 (Liturgy) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 TAKE A LOOK AT…
-
A New House
The Readings for Dedication of the Church of the Anastasis in Jerusalem (13 Sept 23) Hebrews 3:1-4 (Liturgy) Matthew 16:13-18 (Liturgy) Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. Hebrews 3:3 THIS IS ONE OF Those arguments that…
-
Breaking Bad
The Readings for 16th Tuesday after Pentecost (xii.IX.2023) Galatians 5:11-21 (Liturgy) Mark 7:5-16 (Liturgy) For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. Galatians 5:13 SAUL or, to use his Latin name, Paul (it was not, like…
-
Carpenters?
The Readings for 15th Tuesday after Pentecost (5 Sept) Galatians 2:21-3:7 (Liturgy) Mark 6:1-7 (Liturgy) Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? Matthew 22:11 FROM THE FOLKS WHO DO “The Jesus Seminar” I’ve head they…
-
The True Story of Sleeping Beauty
The Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary Apocalypse 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Psalm 45 (Response: The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.) 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Alleluia: Mary is taken up to heaven; a chorus of angels exults. Luke 1:39-56 I wrote this in 2018. Reposting for the feast (which will…
-
Life Just Keeps Coming
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 19th Sunday, Tempus per Annum 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a Responsorial from Psalm 85 (Response: Lord, let us see your kindness and grant us your salvation.) Romans 9:1-5 Alleluia from Psalm 130:5 I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for his word. Matthew 14:22-33 Jesus made the disciples get into…
-
Final Cause
Readings for Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola17th Monday After Pentecost A day late, but I keep rewriting… Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 Psalm 106 (Response: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good) James 1:18 (Alleluia) Matthew 13:31-35 Only the one who has sinned against me will I blot out of my book. Exodus 32:33…
-
Swords and Pieces
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum Exodus 1:8-14, 22 Responsorial from Psalm 124 (Response: Our help is in the name of the Lord.) Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. (Alleluia) Matthew 10:34-11:1 “I have come to bring not peace…
