Category: Liturgy

  • I want that. No. Wait.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Day in the 8va of Christmas: 1 John 2:12-17 Luke 2:36-40 Et mundus transit, et concupiscentia ejus And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof I’m late in posting I know. Actually I wasn’t going to make a post today, then I didn’t make one yesterday either. But…

  • Thus was fulfilled.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 3 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Audite ergo, domus David. Numquid parum vobis est molestos esse hominibus, quia molesti estis et Deo meo? Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum: ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel. Hear ye therefore, O house of David:…

  • This time I got away with it! Right?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 40:25-31 Matthew 11:28-30 Memorial of St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Quare dicis, Jacob, et loqueris, Israël: Abscondita est via mea a Domino, et a Deo meo judicium meum transivit? Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the…

  • We wanna go back to Egypt.

    + JMJ Today’s readings: Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Cur eduxisti nos de Ægypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? deest panis, non sunt aquæ: anima nostra jam nauseat super cibo isto levissimo. Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted…

  • Populus tuus populus meus

    Today’s Readings: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14B-16, 22 Matthew 22:34-40 Quocumque enim perrexeris, pergam, et ubi morata fueris, et ego pariter morabor.  Populus tuus populus meus, et Deus tuus Deus meus. For wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge.  Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Ruth…

  • It’s your choice, really…

    Today’s Readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14B-16A 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 John 6:51-58 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” John 6:52-53You may know…

  • Fourth Petition – Jesus Psalter

    To see all the other notes in this series, click on “Jesus Psalter” or in the labels below. To see the first post click here. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus comfort me. (x10) Jesus comfort me and give me grace place my chief, my only joy in thee. Send me heavenly meditations, spiritual sweetness, and fervent desires of thy…

  • Third Petition – Jesus Psalter

    To see all the other notes in this series, click on “Jesus Psalter” or in the labels below. To see the first post click here. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus strengthen me. (x10) Jesus strengthen me in soul and body to the performance of all virtue for thy pleasure, whereby I may attain to thy everlasting joy and felicity.…

  • The Second Petition – The Jesus Psalter

    Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me. (x10) Jesus help me to overcome all temptation to sin and the malice of my ghostly enemies.Help me to spend my time in virtue and in labors acceptable to thee, to repress in my flesh the motions of sloth, gluttony, and lust.Help me to have a heart fully in love…

  • The First Petition – Jesus Psalter

    This whole series can be found under Jesus Psalter Series in the sidebar. The reader is referred there for “how to” and any historical notes. To the latter I will add more as I find them. Each petition will be posted in the same format: the petition itself, which is to be said ten times, followed…

  • Liturgical Doodles

    I’m given to understand that “back in the day” there were no “Vigil Masses” on Saturday Night and that proper piety in the West (as in the East) involved attending Saturday Vespers where one might also make confession. I’ve no idea if this “day” was 100 years ago or 1,000, but Saturday Vespers leading into…