Category: meditations

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • I want you. To want me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 7:51—8:1A  John 6:30-35 Ego sum panis vitae.I am the bread of life.In the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer 1979 there is a Eucharistic Anaphora that includes the lines:  Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this table for solace only and…

  • Verba Vitae

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Wednesday of Easter (B2) Acts 5:17-26  John 3:16-21 Ite, et stantes loquimini in templo plebi omnia verba vitae hujus. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. What are omnia verba vitae hujus? What are all the words of this life? Is this…

  • A Community of Christians in Charity with the World

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for in Easter Week (B2) Acts 4:32-37  John 3:7B-15 Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos.For neither was there any one needy among them.They will know we are Christians by our love, y’all.  So where are there needy folks sitting in the pew next to you, or on the bus next…

  • Mamma Don’t Allow no Kyriopascha ‘Round Here

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Annunciation (Transferred) Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10 Hebrews 10:4-10 Luke 1:26-38 Ecce ancilla Domini. Behold the handmaiden of the Lord.Our Mother, the Holy Church of Rome, will not allow a feast or Solemnity to impinge on the period between Palm Sunday and the 2nd Sunday of Easter. Anything that needs to be…

  • Yeah, You Didn’t Build That

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for 2nd Sunday of Easter (Domenica in Albis) (B2) Acts 4:32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20:19-31 Nec quisquam eorum quae possidebat, aliquid suum esse dicebat, sed erant illis omnia communia. Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos: Dividebatur autem singulis prout cuique opus erat.No one said that aught of the things which he…

  • Sola Scriptura Anonymous

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts  3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…

  • Pray the Day Away

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:1-10  Luke 24:13-35 Argentum et aurum non est mihi : quod autem habeo, hoc tibi do .Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee.In a funny book from 1987 called Life: A Warning, by Stephanie Brush, a lacklustre sequel to…

  • Wherein We Reference the Watergate Breakins

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 2:36-41  John 20:11-18 Quia vidi Dominum!I have seen the Lord!The above image is from the TV miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth (1977). It shows Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalen delivering these very words: Quia vidi Dominum! This holy woman (the Magdalen, not Bancroft) is called The Apostle to the…

  • Sonnet XIV Via Dolorosa

    He’s walking, Jesus walking. Bloody stainupon the ground. He’s falling, Jesus falls.& up. He’s walking, falling. Soldier callsSt Simon out of Crowds to help attain Golgotha’s lofty height. Once more he stallsBut rising rushes on the Masses’ needTo fill and bakers dough to bend and kneadfo serve beneath the cross that crushes all. We’re walking…

  • Sonnet XIII Barabbas

    Barabbas, Father’s Son, your story’s endunknown your Genesis unsaid. You markat Jesus side the choice twixt life and starkand nameless death. Are even you a friend? You saw how Life Himself for you the DarkDescending brav’d, the raving mob endur’dthe pillory the cross the spear assur’dthat you could freely fly from Pilate’s clark and yet…