Category: meditations

  • It all Flows from the Heart

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of JesusFriday in the 9th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8C-9 Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 John 19:31-37 Ut innotescat principatibus et potestatibus in caelestibus per Ecclesiam, multiformis sapientia Dei, That through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known…

  • What’s your cross?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 9th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2nd Timothy 2:8-15  Mark 12:28-34 Si commortui sumus, et convivemus : si sustinebimus, et conregnabimus : si negaverimus, et ille negabit nos : si non credimus, ille fidelis permanet, negare seipsum non potest.If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we…

  • Shockwaves of the Eschaton

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Exodus 24:3-8  Hebrews 9:11-15 Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Vetustátem nóvitas,Umbram fugat véritas,Noctem lux elíminat.Now the new the old effaces,Truth away the shadow chases,Light dispels the gloom of night.O sacred banquetTardis and Tesseract of eternityFeast of RamanduLast Homely House before the wilds坎 …

  • Preternatural Hangries

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 8th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Memorial of St Justin Martyr, First Friday of June 1 Peter 4:7-13  Mark 11:11-26 Jam non amplius in aeternum ex te fructum quisquam manducet. May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. Jesus curses the fig tree because it…

  • It takes a strong constitution to be Queen.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Zephaniah  3:14-18A Luke 1:39-56 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo: dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis: et divites dimisit inanes. He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He hath put down the…

  • Give up Wut?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 8th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Peter 1:10-16 Mark 10:28-31 Et coepit ei Petrus dicere : Ecce nos dimisimus omnia, et secuti sumus te. Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.  When it comes to giving up all things, the Apostles actually did,…

  • I hear the Grand Slam is good.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Trinity Sunday (B2) Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Romans 8:14-17 Matthew 28:16-20 Et videntes eum adoraverunt : quidam autem dubitaverunt.And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. This is my favourite verse in the New Testament. It’s huge. Because it’s the end of a pure church. The Apostles have been with Jesus for…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Tante Corrie Knows

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:17-27  John 17:1-11a Sed nihil horum vereor : nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi, quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiae Dei.But I fear none of these things, neither do I count…

  • Once there was a Pentarchy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Matthias, ApostleMonday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 1:15-17, 20-26  John 15:9-17 Et dederunt sortes eis, et cecidit sors super Mathiam, et annumeratus est cum undecim Apostolis. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the…

  • 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…