Category: readings

  • Count as Loss.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 31st week of Ordinary Time (B2) Philippians 3:3-8 Luke 15:1-10 But whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.…

  • Pro Invicem

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 5:21-33 Luke 13:18-21 Subjecti invicem in timore Christi. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.  Paul opens up this passage with a command that gets lost in the shuffle of modern political readings of scripture. Focus on…

  • My Face Hurts…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 4:32-5:8 Luke 13:10-17 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos : aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quae ad rem non pertinet : sed magis gratiarum actio.But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,…

  • The Domestics

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:12-22 Luke 12:35-38 Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ambo in uno Spiritu ad Patrem. Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenae : sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei.For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the…

  • All I Want is My Fair Share

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:1-10 Luke 12:13-21 Videte, et cavete ab omni avaritia… Take heed and beware of all covetousness… The Gospel is messy: it doesn’t color between the lines we’ve drawn. Who in this brief Gospel story of familial dysfunction gets your sympathy?…

  • The Apostolic Life

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Luke, Apostle and EvangelistThursday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Timothy 4:10-17B Luke 10:1-9 Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta, et neminem per viam salutaveritis.Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. I hear lamentations that some…

  • I got my Liberty License

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the memorial of St Theresa of Avila, Doctor of the ChurchMonday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 4:22 – 5:1 Luke 11:29-32 Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillae filii, sed liberae : qua libertate Christus nos liberavit. State, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. So then, brethren, we…

  • An Ontological Illusion.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:22-29 Luke 11:27-28 Quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis. Non est Judaeus, neque Graecus : non est servus, neque liber : non est masculus, neque femina. Omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Jesu. For as many of you as…

  • Sit Anathema Sit

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 1:6-12 Luke 10:25-37 Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.Paul is reaching out to the Galatian churches. (Galatians = Gauls =…

  • The Greatest Adventure

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of Francis of AssisiThursday in the 26th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Job 19:21-27 Luke 10:1-12 Ite : ecce ego mitto vos sicut agnos inter lupos. Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor…

  • Yes, Virginia, there are Angels. OK, Maryland.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of the Guardian AngelsTuesday in the 26th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 Mathew 18:1-5, 10 Videte ne contemnatis unum ex his pusillis : dico enim vobis, quia angeli eorum in caelis semper vident faciem Patris mei, qui in caelis est. See that you despise…

  • Fisking St James

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Numbers 11:25-29 Jas 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Remember that we – in the USA – are the rich. Doesn’t matter how much you earn, doesn’t matter how much you make or how…

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St Vincent de PaulThursday ihthe 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Luke 9:7-9 Deus, qui sacrae legis omnia constituta in tua et proximi dilectione posuisti… O God, whou founded all the commands of your sacred Law upon love of you and of our neighbor… As…

  • Think Different

    Good Ol’ Uncle Al ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 25th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Proverbs 3:27-34 Luke 8:16-18 Ne aemuleris hominem injustum, nec imiteris vias ejus. Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways. America has a problem with rebels. We started with the violent overthrow of our lawful…

  • The Lord will uphold my Life.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 James 3:16—4:3 Mark 9:30-37 Videamus ergo si sermones illius veri sint, et tentemus quae ventura sunt illi, et sciemus quae erunt novissima illius. Si enim est verus filius Dei, suscipiet illum, et liberabit eum de manibus contrariorum… Erit enim ei…