Category: mass

  • When in Rome…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Dixit Jesus: Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom…

  • It’s all sin. Come and feast.

    Happy St Nicholas Day! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 25:6-10A Matthew 15:29-37 Et accesserunt ad eum turbæ multæ, habentes secum mutos, cæcos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos: et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos.Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed,…

  • The American Way: Something about the Reaping…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 11:1-10 Luke 10:21-24 Quod abscondisti hæc a sapientibus et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.  Thou hast hidden all this from the wise and the prudent, and revealed it to little children. Monty Pythons, Meaning of Life, Part VII, Death. Death walks into a rural…

  • Well. Isn’t That Special.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 2:1-5 Matthew 8:5-11 I heard a sermon on this passage once where the Centurion’s servant was called his lover. At that time, I did a search (I think it was called “Ask Jeeves” in that century, or maybe Yahoo) and I found no resources…

  • See the Watch Swing Back and Forth

      + JMJ The Readings for Sunday 1 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 Videte vigilate et orate nescitis enim quando tempus sit Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. The first Sunday of Advent is the first Sunday of the Church…

  • Continuity and Rupture

    In the last two weeks of the Lectionary, Weeks 29 and 30 of year A, we’ve had this story (in two parts): The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and…

  • This is not an interfaith dialogue.

    + JMJ Today’s Readings: Isaiah 55:6-9 Philippians 1:20C-24, 27A Matthew 20:1-16A Et nunc magnificabitur Christus in corpore meo, sive per vitam, sive per mortem. Mihi enim vivere Christus est, et mori lucrum. Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.…

  • All Teh Feelz

    + JMJ Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Luke 7:31-35 Dixit Jesus, “Cui ergo similes dicam homines generationis hujus? et cui similes sunt? Similes sunt pueris sedentibus in foro, et loquentibus ad invicem, et dicentibus: Cantavimus vobis tibiis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non plorastis.”Jesus said, “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What…

  • Enculturated

    Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Luke 7:11-17 Suæ domui bene præpositum: filios habentem subditos cum omni castitate. Si quis autem domui suæ præesse nescit, quomodo ecclesiæ Dei diligentiam habebit? He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with perfect dignity; for if a man does not know how to manage his own…

  • May G-d Bless & Keep the Tzar…

    + JMJ Today’s Readings: 1 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 7:1-10 Obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes, gratiarum actiones, pro omnibus hominibus: pro regibus, et omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt, ut quietam et tranquillam vitam agamus in omni pietate, et castitate: hoc enim bonum est, et acceptum coram Salvatore nostro Deo, qui omnes homines vult salvos fieri, et…

  • At the Cross her Station Keeping

    + JMJ Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 John 19:25-27 “Behold, your mother.” After the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (yesterday) comes the commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows, noting, as St Simeon prophesied, a sword has pierced Our Lady’s heart.  Mary stands at the foot of the cross experiencing loss, a…

  • 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…

  • Pie in the Sky By and By When You Die

    Today’s readings: Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 6:20-26 Beati pauperes, quia vestrum est regnum Dei. Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. Luke 6:20b It seems entirely possible to read this and other passages as if God likes poor people and hates the rich, as if there are so many ways…

  • Making Up for Whatever is Lacking

    +J+M+J+ Today’s readings: Colossians 1:24–2:3 Luke 6:6-11 Adimpleo ea quæ desunt passionum Christi, in carne mea pro corpore ejus, quod est Ecclesia. In my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his Body, which is the Church… Colossians 1:24b You have to admit that’s a shocker.…

  • Judgement and Love

    Today’s Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 Si autem peccaverit in te frater tuus, vade, et corripe eum inter te, et ipsum solum: si te audierit, lucratus eris fratrem tuum. If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have…