Category: mass

  • Some sheep go astray…

    Can you get from this image to the topic? ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot.Wednesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Potius ite ad oves quae perierunt domus Israel. Euntes autem praedicate, dicentes : Quia appropinquavit regnum caelorum. Go rather to the…

  • Being a Local Guide

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 Matthew 9:32-38 Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.In my…

  • A few twists and you’re good to go.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Mark 6:1-6 Libenter igitur gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis, ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi.Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.  Paul reports having a “thorn in the flesh”, some…

  • Temples of the Nation

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 13th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Amos 7:10-17  Matthew 9:1-8 Et dixit Amasias ad Amos : Qui vides, gradere : fuge in terram Juda, et comede ibi panem, et prophetabis ibi. Et in Bethel non adjicies ultra ut prophetes, quia sanctificatio regis est, et domus regni est. And Amazi’ah…

  • Typology for the Fourth

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Amos 5:14-15, 21-24  Matthew 8:28-34 Et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam. Neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.  Iconoclasm is the breaking of icons. In modern usage it tends to be a good thing: destroying “sacred cows” of the…

  • Fashionably Faithless

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle Ephesians 2:19-22  John 20:24-29 Noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis Do not be incredulous, but faithful.  On the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle the Gospel reading recounts one chain of events in Thomas’ life when, in the stress of Holy Week, he doubted the news…

  • Why Does God Allow Cilantro?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Mark 5:21-43 Deus mortem non fecit. Nec laetatur in perditione vivorum. God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.   The man, Jairus, corners Jesus in a crowd and…

  • So many. So many…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Lamentation 2:2, 10-14, 18-19  Matthew 8:5-7 Et omnes male habentes curavit : And all that were sick he healed And all that were sick, he healed… that “all” there is the Greek word, πάντας pantas,…

  • Just the Two of Us, We Can Make It

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul Acts 12:1-11  2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16:13-19 Dominus autem mihi astitit, et confortavit me. The Lord stood by me and gave me strength. In the movie Paul: Apostle of Christ, the character of Saint Paul experiences nightmares on a nightly basis. These are dreams…

  • What color lipstick are you using?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 19:9B-11, 14-21, 31-35A, 36  Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Intrate per angustam portam : quia lata porta, et spatiosa via est, quae ducit ad perditionem, et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Quam angusta porta, et arcta via est, quae ducit…

  • The Kenotic Wheel of the Year

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Nativity of St John Baptist Isaiah 49:1-6  Acts 13:22-26 Luke 1:57-66, 80 Cum impleret autem Joannes cursum suum, dicebat : Quem me arbitramini esse, non sum ego, sed ecce venit post me, cujus non sum dignus calceamenta pedum solvere. As John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What…

  • In the Biblical Sense…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Vigil of the Nativity of St John Baptist Jeremiah 1:4-10  1 Peter 1:8-12  Luke 1:5-17 Priusquam te formarem in utero, novi te Before I formed you in the womb I knew you   I’ve been reading Brant Pitre’s Jesus the Bridegroom which sets out, like many of Dr Pitre’s works, to remind…

  • O Fellowship Divine

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Sirach 48:1-14  Matthew 6:7-15 Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt.Elias quidem in turbine tectus estBlessed is he who shall have seen you And who falls asleep in your friendship.O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind!I’ve been feeling out this huge…

  • Breaking up is Hard to Do.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14  Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Attendite ne justitiam vestram faciatis coram hominibus, ut videamini ab eis : alioquin mercedem non habebitis apud Patrem vestrum qui in caelis est. “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen…

  • Even Ahab Repents

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 21:17-29 Matthew 5:43-48 Nonne vidisti humiliatum Achab coram me? quia igitur humiliatus est mei causa, non inducam malum in diebus ejus, sed in diebus filii sui inferam malum domui ejus. “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me?…