Category: mass

  • Wherein We Snap & Play Guitar at Folk Mass

    Wherein We Snap & Play Guitar at Folk Mass

    Christ the King Sunday, when it was instituted by Pius the XI in 1925, was placed on the Last Sunday in October. That made it a little awkward for Bible Readings (which still had to be doubled up) and for Calendar keeping. But it made perfect sense: it always came before All Saints Day and…

  • Love in the Time of Covid-19

    Dear Fathers in Christ – Some diocese are canceling public services. Some are not. No matter where you fall on the spectrum between APOCALYPSE and TOO MUCH HYPE there is something you can do to help us all: especially the folks in the places with no Masses. Put your Mass live on Facebook. Put your…

  • Think Different

    The Readings for the 3rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Isaiah 8:23-9:3 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 Matthew 4:12-23 Paenitentiam agite; appropinquavit enim regnum caelorum.Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent, says Jesus. Jerome’s Latin renders this poenitentiam agite which means “do penance” but it may be a typo of sorts as “paenitentiam”…

  • Nec laudibus nec timore

    Nec laudibus nec timore

    Moloch by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra ✙JMJ The Readings for the 21st Sunday Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Contendite intrare per angustam portam  Strive to enter by the narrow gate All these readings tie together: it’s like someone had planned it or something. This morning in the office of readings, we got a…

  • Undivided

    Undivided

    JMJ We are often told that we should not do so, yet we often think of communion as a series of discrete incidents through the course of our lives. We think of this time I take communion. We think of that particle on the spoon from the sacred chalice, or of that host and this…

  • Before Communion

    JMJ Other than the Domine Non Sum Dignus, the Roman Rite (OF/EF) has few pre-communion devotions in the liturgy itself – although the EF also has the Confiteor recited before Communion. If you haven’t any others, the following, taken from Anglican and Eastern Orthodox traditions, are very useful to fill in this gap. There’s usually…

  • Count as Loss.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 31st week of Ordinary Time (B2) Philippians 3:3-8 Luke 15:1-10 But whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.…

  • Pro Invicem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 5:21-33 Luke 13:18-21 Subjecti invicem in timore Christi. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.  Paul opens up this passage with a command that gets lost in the shuffle of modern political readings of scripture. Focus on…

  • My Face Hurts…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 4:32-5:8 Luke 13:10-17 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos : aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quae ad rem non pertinet : sed magis gratiarum actio.But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,…

  • All are welcome!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 3:14-21 Luke 12:49-53 In caritate radicati, et fundati, ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quae sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum : scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.That you, being rooted and…

  • The Domestics

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:12-22 Luke 12:35-38 Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ambo in uno Spiritu ad Patrem. Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenae : sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei.For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the…

  • Lord, can we ask you something?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 Magister, volumus ut quodcumque petierimus, facias nobis. Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us. This came up last night at St Dominic’s. It was a surprise to realize, but the…

  • Don’t Dubia The Import of This

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…

  • 200 Mysteries

    ✙ JMJ Rosary Sunday (Our Lady of Victory) This is a special feast for the Dominicans: it even trumps Sunday. That said, I don’t know the readings for today. The Rosary is a compendium of the entire Gospel. In prayer it unites us with Christ, it unites us with his mother, the first of the…

  • Fisking St James

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Numbers 11:25-29 Jas 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Remember that we – in the USA – are the rich. Doesn’t matter how much you earn, doesn’t matter how much you make or how…