Category: meditations

  • The Benedict Option

    If I Werrr King of the Forrrrressssht ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2): II Samuel 12:1-7A, 10-17 Mark 4:35-41 Et ait illis : Quid timidi estis? necdum habetis fidem? And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?July 4th, 1981,  I was sitting behind the elementary…

  • Saul. Saul…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Conversion of St PaulThursday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Acts 9:1-22  Mark 16:15-18 Ego sum Jesus, quem tu persequeris : durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare.I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.  Kicking against the goad is…

  • I have a cunning plan…

    ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Memorial of St Francis de Sales, BCDWednesday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  II Samuel 7:4-17  Mark 4:1-20 Et fidelis erit domus tua, et regnum tuum usque in aeternum ante faciem tuam, et thronus tuus erit firmus jugiter.And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face,…

  • Similam Frixam Oleo!

    ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Tuesday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  II Samuel 6:12B-15, 17-19  Mark 3:31-35 Ecce mater mea et fratres mei.Behold my mother and my brethren. My Freshman year in College, I won a preaching award with this Gospel. In fact, it was an annual award, open to all students. I was the…

  • A Solution to a Shutdown

    ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Monday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  II Samuel 5:1-7, 10  Mark 3:22-30 Venerunt quoque et seniores Israël ad regem in Hebron, et percussit cum eis rex David fœdus in Hebron coram Domino: unxeruntque David in regem super Israël.The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and…

  • The Tao of Paul

    ✙ JMJ  The Readings for 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2):  Jonah 3:1-5, 10 I Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 Præterit enim figura hujus mundi.The fashion of this world passeth away.You wanna know, right? Cuz it’s been 2,000 years. When is this all going to end. Which part of this is passing away? Jesus said, “Quoniam…

  • Kaine Hora

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Thursday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7  Mark 3:7-12 Non rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat David a die illa et deinceps.And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.The king is very angry at David and he gives him…

  • Politicians.

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Tuesday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 16:1-13 Mark 2:23-28 Ne respicias vultum ejus, neque altitudinem staturæ ejus: quoniam abjeci eum, nec juxta intuitum hominis ego judico: homo enim videt ea quæ parent, Dominus autem intuetur cor.Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature:…

  • Wherein Fr Martin is – Briefly – Right

    Orthodox Monastic Building a Bridge ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Sunday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  1 Samuel 3:3B-10, 19 1 Corinthians 6:13C-15A, 17-20 John 1:35-42 Tu es Simon, filius Jona; tu vocaberis Cephas, quod interpretatur Petrus.Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter. Did you…

  • Saul and Matthew

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 Mark 2:13-17 Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester? Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners?The Latin does render it very enjoyably, no? “Why, with publicans and sinners, eats and drinks this Master…

  • Perverse and Foolish

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): I Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22A Mark 2:1-12 Non enim te abjecerunt, sed me, ne regnem super eos.For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.God sounds rather downcast here. Give them what they want…Except I think that would…

  • Totally Scooped by the Bishop

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Mark 1:40-45 If you were reading along yesterday, you may be thinking I was in a Dark Spiral of some sort, and you’d be right. I was totally going somewhere with this, but I hadn’t noticed that this is also…

  • My Favourite

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Mark 1:29-39  Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. This scene…

  • Mortimer and Me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all. Today is the first…

  • Come. Buy and Eat.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Baptism  of Our Lord: Isaiah 55:1-11 Mark 1:7-11 Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac. Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate?  All you that thirst,…