Category: readings

  • Think Different

    The Readings for the 3rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Isaiah 8:23-9:3 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 Matthew 4:12-23 Paenitentiam agite; appropinquavit enim regnum caelorum.Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent, says Jesus. Jerome’s Latin renders this poenitentiam agite which means “do penance” but it may be a typo of sorts as “paenitentiam”…

  • You’re doing it wrong

    The Readings for the 1st Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (A2) 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Factum est autem, cum illa multiplicaret preces coram Domino, ut Heli observaret os ejus. Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Aestimavit ergo eam Heli temulentam, dixitque ei : Usquequo ebria eris?…

  • Manifest Destiny

    The Readings for the Epiphany (A2) Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 Gentes esse cohaeredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per EvangeliumGentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Rome knew what it was like to be the Chosen…

  • Indefectibili Foedere

    The Readings for the 3rd Monday in Advent (A2) Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17A Matthew 21:23-27 Dixit auditor sermonum Dei, qui visionem Omnipotentis intuitus est, qui cadit, et sic aperiuntur oculi ejus :The utterance of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured,…

  • Gaudete

    The Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent (A2) Isaiah 35:1-6A, 10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 Tu es, qui venturus es, an alium exspectamus?Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? You know what? Life is not like we post it on Facebook. It’s ugly. The vast majority sees the world…

  • Every Fire Burns Differently

    The Readings for the 33rd Sunday, Tempus per Annum (c1) Malachi 3:19-20A 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12 Luke 21:5-19 Et morte afficient ex vobis : et capillus de capite vestro non peribit. They will put some of you to death…but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. Our readings today are from very apocalyptic texts.…

  • Like Hanukkah in November

    The Readings for the 31st Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1) 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-38 Parati sumus mori, magis quam patrias Dei leges praevaricari.We are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. Here are sons of whom a Mother can be rightfully proud!…

  • The Amazon in Burning

    The Readings for the 31st Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 13:8-10 Luke 14:25-33 Nemini quidquam debeatis, nisi ut invicem diligatis : qui enim diligit proximum, legem implevit. Dilectio proximi malum non operatur. Plenitudo ergo legis est dilectio.Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the…

  • Et Cetera, Et Cetera

    The Readings for the Solemnity of All the Saints Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 Vidi turbam magnam, quam dinumerare nemo poterat, ex omnibus gentibus, et tribubus, et populis, et linguis : stantes ante thronum, et in conspectu Agni, amicti stolis albis, et palmae in manibus eorum :I had a vision of a…

  • What really scares you?

    The Readings for the 30th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:31-39 Luke 13:31-35 Certus sum enim quia neque mors, neque vita, neque angeli, neque principatus, neque virtutes, neque instantia, neque futura, neque fortitudo, neque altitudo, neque profundum, neque creatura alia poterit nos separare a caritate Dei, quae est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro. For…

  • Salvific Synergy of SIn

    If everyone gets in, God wins. I call it the God Wins Law.

  • SNAFU

    Our greatest boons become our greatest banes. The more we prop up, the more falls down. Yet we continue, refusing to listen.

  • Fake News & Latin Rite Baptists

    The Readings for the Feast of Sts Simon and Jude, Apostles Ephesians 2:19-22 Luke 6:12-16 Estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei, superaedificati super fundamentum apostolorum, et prophetarum, ipso summo angulari lapide Christo Jesu : Liberavit me Dominus ab omni opere malo : et salvum faciet in regnum suum caeleste, cui gloria in saecula saeculorum. Amen.…

  • This Line Runs Through the Human Heart

    I know the Pharisee is the Bad Guy: but how we end up praying like him is important.

  • Theodicy

    The readings for the 29th Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:1-11 Luke 13:1-9 Putatis quod hi Galilaei prae omnibus Galilaeis peccatores fuerint, quia talia passi sunt? Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? Back in 1985, I took a year off college.…