Category: meditations

  • 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…

  • Lord I’ve Done Some Yuge Things Here.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Memorial of St Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr 2 Kings 24:8-17  Matthew 7:21-29 Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum caelorum. Not all who say to me, Lord! Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.Don’t let anyone tell you that all…

  • This needn’t ever have happened.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3  Matthew 7:15-20 Omnis arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I’m having trouble finding it. It was this year’s “It’s…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • As you go, sow.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 17:22-24  2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 Sic est regnum Dei, quemadmodum si homo jaciat sementem in terram, et dormiat, et exsurgat nocte et die, et semen germinet, et increscat dum nescit ille. Ultro enim terra fructificat, primum herbam, deinde spicam, deinde plenum…

  • The yoke’s on Elisha…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:19-21  Matthew 5:33-37 Cumque venisset Elias ad eum, misit pallium suum super illum qui statim relictis bobus cucurrit post Eliam. Eli’jah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him and [Elisha] left the oxen, and ran after Eli’jah. The call…

  • Is there someone else we can talk to?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:9A, 11-16 Matthew 5:27-32 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis… Ego autem dico vobis…  You have heard it said of old…  But I say to you… If you come to the New Testament looking for a relief from those pesky rules in…

  • Lord, it’s hard to be humble.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:41-46  Matthew 5:20-26 Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altare, et ibi recordatus fueris quia frater tuus habet aliquid adversum te : relinque ibi munus tuum ante altare, et vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo : et tunc veniens offeres munus tuum. So…

  • Brief thought on Elijah: Pick.

    TZzztztztzzzztztzztzttztzztzt CHUSHPOW ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church Wednesday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:20-39 Matthew 5:17-19 Usquequo claudicatis in duas partes? Si Dominus est Deus, sequimini eum : si autem Baal, sequimini illum. How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the…

  • This sucks worse for me than for you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Genesis 3:9-15  2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Omnia enim propter vos : ut gratia abundans, per multos in gratiarum actione, abundet in gloriam Dei. For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory…