Category: mass

  • Deus Vult!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:13-17 Mark 9:38-40 Si Dominus voluerit. Et : Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.  If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that. I watched the Pope Francis movie last Saturday. One of the things it did was…

  • Cheating on my Husband.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:1-10  Mark 9:30-37 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend…

  • Shine! Shine, O New Jerusalem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Mary, Mother of the ChurchMonday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) Genesis 3:9-15, 20 John 19:25-34 Diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob. Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei! Numquid Sion dicet : Homo et homo natus est in ea? et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus.The Lord loveth the…

  • Light one candle.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 28:16-20, 30-31  John 21:20-25 Domine, hic autem quid?Quid ad te? tu me sequere. Lord, what about him?What is that to you? You follow me.Peter, with a growing sense of… something… turns around and sees the Evangelist John taking notes like some Cub…

  • No. Boys always say, “I love you *too*”

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 25:13b-21  John 21:15-19 Dicit ei tertio : Simon Joannis, amas me? Contristatus est Petrus, quia dixit ei tertio : Amas me? He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said…

  • Dīvide et Impera

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11  John 17:20-26 Viri fratres, ego pharisaeus sum, filius pharisaeorum, de spe et resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor.Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Philip of Macedonia,…

  • May not be a Bruce Lee quote. But it’s true.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:28-38  John 17:11b-19 Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. There’s this great line in St Catherine’s…

  • So, about this wall…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…

  • I am divine, you are dibranches.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6  John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • I in you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 5th Sunday of Easter (B2) Among the Dominicans, The Feast of St Catherine of Siena Acts 8:26-31 1 John 3:18-24  John 15:1-8 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ehe Catechism Tjus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum…We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one…

  • Sometimes it’s totally needed

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52  John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself.  The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…

  • Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25  John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…

  • Here Kitty, Kitty.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Mark, EvangelistWednesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) 1 Peter 5:5B-14  Mark 16:15-20 Sobrii estote, et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret : cui resistite fortes in fide.Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about…

  • Hanukkah in the Nile.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 11:19-26  John 10:22-30 Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.  The Feast of the Dedication. Jesus is chilling in the temple…