Category: readings

  • This needn’t ever have happened.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3  Matthew 7:15-20 Omnis arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I’m having trouble finding it. It was this year’s “It’s…

  • What color lipstick are you using?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 19:9B-11, 14-21, 31-35A, 36  Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Intrate per angustam portam : quia lata porta, et spatiosa via est, quae ducit ad perditionem, et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Quam angusta porta, et arcta via est, quae ducit…

  • 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…

  • O Fellowship Divine

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Sirach 48:1-14  Matthew 6:7-15 Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt.Elias quidem in turbine tectus estBlessed is he who shall have seen you And who falls asleep in your friendship.O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind!I’ve been feeling out this huge…

  • Breaking up is Hard to Do.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14  Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Attendite ne justitiam vestram faciatis coram hominibus, ut videamini ab eis : alioquin mercedem non habebitis apud Patrem vestrum qui in caelis est. “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen…

  • Even Ahab Repents

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 21:17-29 Matthew 5:43-48 Nonne vidisti humiliatum Achab coram me? quia igitur humiliatus est mei causa, non inducam malum in diebus ejus, sed in diebus filii sui inferam malum domui ejus. “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me?…

  • As you go, sow.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Ezekiel 17:22-24  2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 Sic est regnum Dei, quemadmodum si homo jaciat sementem in terram, et dormiat, et exsurgat nocte et die, et semen germinet, et increscat dum nescit ille. Ultro enim terra fructificat, primum herbam, deinde spicam, deinde plenum…

  • The yoke’s on Elisha…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:19-21  Matthew 5:33-37 Cumque venisset Elias ad eum, misit pallium suum super illum qui statim relictis bobus cucurrit post Eliam. Eli’jah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him and [Elisha] left the oxen, and ran after Eli’jah. The call…

  • Is there someone else we can talk to?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 19:9A, 11-16 Matthew 5:27-32 Audistis quia dictum est antiquis… Ego autem dico vobis…  You have heard it said of old…  But I say to you… If you come to the New Testament looking for a relief from those pesky rules in…

  • Lord, it’s hard to be humble.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:41-46  Matthew 5:20-26 Si ergo offers munus tuum ad altare, et ibi recordatus fueris quia frater tuus habet aliquid adversum te : relinque ibi munus tuum ante altare, et vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo : et tunc veniens offeres munus tuum. So…

  • Brief thought on Elijah: Pick.

    TZzztztztzzzztztzztzttztzztzt CHUSHPOW ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church Wednesday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:20-39 Matthew 5:17-19 Usquequo claudicatis in duas partes? Si Dominus est Deus, sequimini eum : si autem Baal, sequimini illum. How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the…

  • This sucks worse for me than for you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Genesis 3:9-15  2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Omnia enim propter vos : ut gratia abundans, per multos in gratiarum actione, abundet in gloriam Dei. For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory…

  • It all Flows from the Heart

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of JesusFriday in the 9th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8C-9 Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 John 19:31-37 Ut innotescat principatibus et potestatibus in caelestibus per Ecclesiam, multiformis sapientia Dei, That through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known…

  • What’s your cross?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 9th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2nd Timothy 2:8-15  Mark 12:28-34 Si commortui sumus, et convivemus : si sustinebimus, et conregnabimus : si negaverimus, et ille negabit nos : si non credimus, ille fidelis permanet, negare seipsum non potest.If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we…