Category: mass

  • Oh, that guy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent (B2) II Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Non enim misit Deus Filium suum in mundum, ut judicet mundum, sed ut salvetur mundus per ipsum. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be…

  • Merely Survived

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 3:25, 34-43  Matthew 18:21-35 Ut possimus invenire misericordiam tuam, sed in animo contrito, et spiritu humilitatis suscipiamur. Sicut in holocausto arietum, et taurorum, et sicut in millibus agnorum pinguium, sic fiat sacrificium nostrum in conspectu tuo hodie, ut placeat tibi, quoniam non…

  • Now, that’s Lent.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 3rd Week f Lent (B2) II Kings 5:1-15 Luke 4:24-30 Et multi leprosi erant in Israel sub Elisaeo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed…

  • None other Gods

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (B2) Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 John 2:13-25 Non habebis deos alienos coram me.Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. There are spoilers in this essay relating to the plot line of a very good book. But the book was published 100 years ago, so…

  • God’s Bearhugging Boy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20  Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Erant autem appropinquantes ei publicani, et peccatores ut audirent illum. Et murmurabant pharisaei, et scribae, dicentes : Quia hic peccatores recipit, et manducat cum illis. Et ait ad illos parabolam istam.Now the publicans and sinners drew…

  • No pain. No gain.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13A, 17B-28A Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Dixit ergo Judas fratribus suis : Quid nobis prodest si occiderimus fratrem nostrum, et celaverimus sanguinem ipsius? Melius est ut venundetur Ismaelitis, et manus nostrae non polluantur : frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquieverunt fratres…

  • My Own Private Lazarus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) St David of Wales Jeremiah 17:5-10 Luke 16:19-31 Homo quidam erat dives… There was a certain rich man… We have a huge homeless problem in San Francisco. The problem is we have a huge, wealthy population that’s scared of homeless people.They are scared…

  • Can we? Yes we can!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Jeremiah 18:18-20 Matthew 20:17-28 Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam, et Filius hominis tradetur principibus sacerdotum, et scribis, et condemnabunt eum morte, et tradent eum gentibus ad illudendum, et flagellandum, et crucifigendum…Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to…

  • Might have beens

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Matthew 23:1-12 Projicite a vobis omnes praevaricationes vestras in quibus praevaricati estis, et facite vobis cor novum, et spiritum novum.Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and…

  • Who am I to Judge?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 9:4b-10  Luke 6:36-38 Nolite judicare, et non judicabiminiJudge not, and you shall not be judgedThomas Aquinas, in his Catena Aurea (The Golden Chain) notes the following comments from the Fathers on this verse: Ambrose: The Lord added, that we must not readily judge…

  • Akeda

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 22:1-2, 9A, 10-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31B-34  Mark 9:2-10 Non pepercisti unigenito filio tuo propter me. Thou hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.  There is so much pain in this story. The Lent that I was at the Monastery, I couldn’t…

  • THEM

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Matthew 5:43-48 Ego autem dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos.But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute…

  • Whales Tales

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo.And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time.The first words in the Book of the Prophet Jonas are “Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam…” and there…

  • We can totally ignore this part…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, 1st Week of Lent (B2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18  Matthew 25:31-46 Et ibunt hi in supplicium aeternum : justi autem in vitam aeternam.And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.  A friend outside of Catholic Mass, gathering signatures for helping the homeless was told by…

  • Preaching to those in Prison

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 9:8-15 I Peter 3:18-22  Mark 1:12-15 In quo et his, qui in carcere erant, spiritibus veniens praedicavit : qui increduli fuerant aliquandont”In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: Which had been some time incredulous. This passage from St Peter is…