Category: readings
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Retvrn!
How can you return to your God if you’re not yourself?
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Crazy 4 Jesus
What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Who (or what) is dying on your cross?
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The True Story of Sleeping Beauty
The Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary Apocalypse 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Psalm 45 (Response: The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.) 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Alleluia: Mary is taken up to heaven; a chorus of angels exults. Luke 1:39-56 I wrote this in 2018. Reposting for the feast (which will…
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Life Just Keeps Coming
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 19th Sunday, Tempus per Annum 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a Responsorial from Psalm 85 (Response: Lord, let us see your kindness and grant us your salvation.) Romans 9:1-5 Alleluia from Psalm 130:5 I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for his word. Matthew 14:22-33 Jesus made the disciples get into…
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Final Cause
Readings for Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola17th Monday After Pentecost A day late, but I keep rewriting… Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 Psalm 106 (Response: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good) James 1:18 (Alleluia) Matthew 13:31-35 Only the one who has sinned against me will I blot out of my book. Exodus 32:33…
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Swords and Pieces
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum Exodus 1:8-14, 22 Responsorial from Psalm 124 (Response: Our help is in the name of the Lord.) Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. (Alleluia) Matthew 10:34-11:1 “I have come to bring not peace…
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Seeds and Earthlings
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 15th Sunday, Tempus per Annum Isaiah 55:10-11 Responsorial from Psalm 65 (Response: The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.) Romans 8:18-23 The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower. All who come to him will have life forever. (Alleluia) Matthew 13:1-23 “My…
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Peniel
JMJ✙ The Readings for the Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot14th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum Genesis 32:23-33 Responsorial from Psalm 17 (Response: In justice, I shall behold your face, O Lord.) John 10:14 (Alleluia) Matthew 9:32-38 “Because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.” Genesis 32:30 THE AUTHOR…
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Barren Trees Die
JMJ✙ The Readings for the 8th Friday of Ordinary Time Sirach 44:1, 9-13 Responsorial from Psalm 149 (Response: The Lord takes delight in his people..) John 15:16 (Alleluia) Mark 11:11-26 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. Mark 11:14 (RSVCE) SO MANY SERMONS…
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Nothing Ordinary
JMJ✙ The Readings for the Visitation of Mary8th Wednesday of Ordinary Time Zephania 3:14-18a Responsorial from Isaiah 12 (Response: Among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.) Romans 12:9-16 Luke 1:45 (Alleluia) Luke 1:39-56 The Lord your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with…
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Overcoming the World
JMJ✙ The Readings for 7th Monday after Easter Acts 19:1-8 Psalm 68 (Response: Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.) Colossians 3:1 (Alleluia) John 16:29-33 I have overcome the world. John 16:33 JESUS SAYS HE HAS OVERCOME the world. Yet, this is before his Crucifixion, before the Agony in the Garden – just before…
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Something Greater.
The Readings for the Sunday of St Mary of Egypt The Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast Hebrews 9:11-14 Mark 10:32-45 OUR HOLY MOTHER MARY OF Egypt, as she is called in the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete, is perhaps my most-favorite of female saints. Her regular feast day is 1 April which…
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Of Incidents and Accidents.
The Readings for the Sunday of St Gregory Palamas The Second Sunday of the Great Fast Hebrews 1:10-2:3 Mark 2:1-12 AS THE Observance of the Great Fast evolved in the Eastern Church, each Sunday was assigned a special devotion: the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Sundays of St Gregory, of St John, of St Mary, and…
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Of Icons & Hosts
The Readings for the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy The First Sunday of the Great Fast Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-12:2 John 1:43-51 HEARING OF A BYZANTINE CATHOLIC podcast called What God is Not, I decided to give a listen to a ByzCath Nun, Mother Natalia, and Fr Michael O’Loughlin, a priest of the Eparchy of…
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The Parable of Rabbits & Pigs
The Readings for the Sunday of the Last Judgement Meatfare 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2 Matthew 25:31-46 HERE IS A PRECES of our parable: Jesus says at the Last Judgement God will divide us as a farmer does the sheep from the goats. The sheep will find out that they have often fed, clothed, and cared for…
