Category: mass

  • Totally Scooped by the Bishop

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Mark 1:40-45 If you were reading along yesterday, you may be thinking I was in a Dark Spiral of some sort, and you’d be right. I was totally going somewhere with this, but I hadn’t noticed that this is also…

  • My Favourite

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Mark 1:29-39  Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. This scene…

  • Mortimer and Me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all. Today is the first…

  • Come. Buy and Eat.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Baptism  of Our Lord: Isaiah 55:1-11 Mark 1:7-11 Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac. Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate?  All you that thirst,…

  • Venite Adoremus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of Our Lord: Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 Prout potestis legentes intelligere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi: Gentes esse cohæredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per Evangelium. As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ:…

  • Questions Not for Cowans.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8th Day before the Ides of January: I John 5:5-13 Mark 1:7-11 Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus estIf we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater.St John is writing to believers and not to the unbelieving. This argument that follows is of no…

  • Nemo Vos Seducat

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Day before the Nones of January,Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: 1 John 3:7-10 John 1:35-42  Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit justitiam, justus est, sicut et ille justus est.  Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. You…

  • Non Solum Fides.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Day before the Nones of January: I John 2:29–3:6 John 1:29-34 Et omnis qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus est. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. On Sunday, Fr Joseph Illo preached an excellent…

  • Oooo. Scaaaary.

    Source ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Day before the Nones of January: 1 John 2:22-28 John 1:19-28 Hæc scripsi vobis de his, qui seducant vos. I write you these things about those who would deceive you.  John, writing in the mid 70s (ish) of the 1st Century is already aware of Antichrist and…

  • Contemplata Aliis Tradere

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8va Day of Christmas, The Solemnity of the Mother of God: Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21 Maria autem conservabat omnia verba hæc, conferens in corde suo.But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.How does Luke know this? Because Mary told him…St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that “Vita…

  • Mom said I could help.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Holy Family, Sunday within the 8va of Christmas: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Colossians 3:12-17 Luke 2:22-40 Puer autem crescebat, et confortabatur plenus sapientia: et gratia Dei erat in illo. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. Once again we find this…

  • 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…

  • A Bible Study with Godwin’s Law

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Holy Innocents: 1 John 1:5-2:2 Matthew 2:13-18 Si dixerimus quoniam societatem habemus cum eo, et in tenebris ambulamus, mentimur, et veritatem non facimus.If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. I’m reading (or listening…

  • The Golden Apples of the Sun…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St John’s Day: 1 John 1:1-4 John 20:1A, 2-8 Quod fuit ab initio, quod audivimus, quod vidimus oculis nostris, quod perspeximus, et manus nostræ contrectaverunt de verbo vitæ: annuntiamus vobis. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked…

  • Pass me a stone…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Stephen’s Day: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59 Matthew 10:17-22 Cavete autem ab hominibus. Tradent enim vos in conciliis, et in synagogis suis flagellabunt vos:  et ad præsides, et ad reges ducemini propter me in testimonium illis, et gentibus.Beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge…