Category: NativityofJohnBaptist

  • Bonfire Night

    Bonfire Night

    The Readings for the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist Isaiah 49:1-6 Acts 13:22-26 Luke 1:57-66, 80 There is no one among your relatives who has this name. Luke 1:61 (NABRE) HOLY MOTHER CHURCH Celebrates three people especially, noting their conceptions as well as their births and deaths: Jesus, Mary, and John the…

  • The Kenotic Wheel of the Year

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Nativity of St John Baptist Isaiah 49:1-6  Acts 13:22-26 Luke 1:57-66, 80 Cum impleret autem Joannes cursum suum, dicebat : Quem me arbitramini esse, non sum ego, sed ecce venit post me, cujus non sum dignus calceamenta pedum solvere. As John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What…

  • In the Biblical Sense…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Vigil of the Nativity of St John Baptist Jeremiah 1:4-10  1 Peter 1:8-12  Luke 1:5-17 Priusquam te formarem in utero, novi te Before I formed you in the womb I knew you   I’ve been reading Brant Pitre’s Jesus the Bridegroom which sets out, like many of Dr Pitre’s works, to remind…