Category: meditations

  • It’s Better Than the Alternative

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 3 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 61:1-2A, 10-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28 Gaudens gaudebo in Domino, et exsultabit anima mea in Deo meo, quia induit me vestimentis salutis, et indumento justitiæ circumdedit me, quasi sponsum decoratum corona, et quasi sponsam ornatam monilibus suis. I will greatly rejoice in…

  • Send the Rich Away.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Tuesday 2 Advent): Apocalyps 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Luke 1:39-47 Et signum magnum apparuit in cælo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim… And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and…

  • It just fell through, bang smash!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 5:17-26 Lætabitur deserta et invia, et exsultabit solitudo, et florebit quasi lilium. Germinans germinabit, et  lætabunda et laudans. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. It shall bud forth…

  • Flame. It… Flames

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 2 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 II Peter 3:8-14 Mark 1:1-8 Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur: in quo cæli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt opera, exurentur.  But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in…

  • How to Win at Quidditch by Trying Really Hard.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5A, 6-8 Erunt oculi tui videntes præceptorem tuum. Et aures tuæ audient verbum post tergum monentis: Hæc est via; ambulate in ea, et non declinetis neque ad dexteram, neque ad sinistram. With your own eyes you shall see your Teacher, While…

  • When in Rome…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Dixit Jesus: Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom…

  • It’s all sin. Come and feast.

    Happy St Nicholas Day! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 25:6-10A Matthew 15:29-37 Et accesserunt ad eum turbæ multæ, habentes secum mutos, cæcos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos: et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos.Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed,…

  • See the Watch Swing Back and Forth

      + JMJ The Readings for Sunday 1 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 Videte vigilate et orate nescitis enim quando tempus sit Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. The first Sunday of Advent is the first Sunday of the Church…

  • Never be Thrown Away

    From: Meditations and Devotions By Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Section 3:2 God was all-complete, all-blessed in Himself; but it was His will to create a world for His glory. He is Almighty, and might have done all things Himself, but it has been His will to bring about His purposes by the beings He has…