Category: readings

  • Impossible.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Saint Benedict, AbbotThursday in the 13th week Tempus Per Annum (C1) Genesis 44:18-21, 23B-29; 45:1-5 Matthew 10:7-15 Pro salute enim vestra misit me Deus ante vos in Aegyptum.It was for your salvation that God sent me before you into Egypt. Yesterday’s writing may have seemed a bit out…

  • The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Coat

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7A, 17-24A Matthew 10:1-7 Merito haec patimur, quia peccavimus in fratrem nostrum, videntes angustiam animae illius, dum deprecaretur nos, et non audivimus : idcirco venit super nos ista tribulatio. We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against…

  • Love different

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 32:23-33 Matthew 9:32-38 Nequaquam, inquit, Jacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israel : quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti, quanto magis contra homines praevalebis?Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much…

  • Waiting at the Bottom of the Ladder

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 14th week, Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 28:10-22a Matthew 9:18-26 Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you… Jacob sees all that’s going on and suddenly “…there was the LORD standing…

  • Towering O’er the Wrecks of Time

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:10-14C Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  Disciples become Apostles. You never stop being a disciple of…

  • In the Howling Wastes

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 13th week Per Tempus Annum (C1) Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 Matthew 9:14-17 Isaac asked, “Which of my sons are you?” Jacob answered his father:  “I am Esau, your first-born.” God used Jacob: he was the second born son rather than the preference of Patriarchs who want the oldest boy. Think about…

  • Would the judge of all do that?

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 13th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Genesis 18:16-33 Matthew 8:18-22 Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, now that he is to become a great and populous nation, and all the nations of the earth are to find blessing in him? This bizarre scene where Abraham…

  • Monking Where You Are.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the 13th Sunday Tempus per Annum (C1) I Kings 19:16B, 19-21 Galatians 5:1, 13-18 Luke 9:51-62 You are my inheritance, O Lord.Right now Catholic, American internet seems to be filled with one of three different types of politics. These might be described as Monarchist, Socialist, or Capitalist. There are subtypes as well:…

  • Only Connect.

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Ezekiel 34:11-16 Romans 5:5b-11 Luke 15:3-7 What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?Would anyone go? The ROI is really wrong.…

  • Now, Daddy! Now!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 12th Week Tempus Per Annum: Genesis 16:1-12, 15-16 Matthew 7:21-29 Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine. First, Abram didn’t quite follow…

  • Act of Resignation

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th week of Ordinary Time (C1) Genesis 13:2, 5-18 Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. There were quarrels between…

  • Arthur Dent and Titus Pullo

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 11th week of Ordinary Time (C1) II Corinthians 6:1-10 Matthew 5:38-42 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil… If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one…

  • Abolish or Fulfill? Abolish or Fulfill?

    ✙JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Matthew 5:17-19 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. There are no answers in this blog post. Some of us will hear a sermon…

  • It only takes a pinch…

    ✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Barnabas, ApostleTuesday in the 10th week of Ordinary Time (C1) Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3 Mathew 5:13-16 You are the salt of the earth…We are used to hearing this phrase, “salt of the earth” as it might refer to good, solid farmers, or blue-collar laborers, Midwestern voters, etc, salt of…

  • Standing outside the fire.

    The Apostles and St Paul, window at St Dominic’s, SF.  ✙ JMJ The Readings for Pentecost Sunday: Acts  2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3B-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23 The doors were locked where the disciples were for fear. This is how I know this is all true: the disciples were locked in a room in fear and in just 30 years they…