Category: readings
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War, Sex, and Weather
The more wealth Israel accumulated, the more injustice they practiced. The one begot the other which begot more of the first.
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Put your Hand to the Plough
In our modern, rootless and cosmopolitan world, we need to be rootless to serve the God we follow, we are following Jesus.
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We’re gonna have a R’lyeh big shew.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum, et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.That at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and…
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AEEEEEEE-LEEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAAAA!
✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomFriday in the 23rd week Tempus per Annum (C1) 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 Luke 6:39-42 Numquid potest caecus caecum ducere? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt? Non est discipulus super magistrum : perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus.Can a blind person guide a blind…
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…I met a man with seven wives…
If we are united to Christ and share in the fullness of God-stuff (as we noted yesterday) then it’s all done, right? No. For what we discover if we pay any attention to ourselves is that there are a lot of things present in us that seem to have a certain quality of “B.C.” How…
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Nec laudibus nec timore
Moloch by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra ✙JMJ The Readings for the 21st Sunday Tempus per Annum (C1) Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Contendite intrare per angustam portam Strive to enter by the narrow gate All these readings tie together: it’s like someone had planned it or something. This morning in the office of readings, we got a…
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The Last Enemy
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Revelation 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 I have been having Senior Moments. I’m 55, these are to be expected. Actually, I’ll be 55 in two weeks so close enough anyway… I have been having Senior Moments: by which I mean I…
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Mammon of Wickedness
✙ JMJ Read the Parable of the Crafty Servant At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: There was a certain rich man who had a steward, who was reported to him as squandering his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear of you? Make…
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The Call Came From INSIDE THE HOUSE!
JMJ Did you ever notice this one? “The Son of Man will send his angels,and they will collect out of his Kingdomall who cause others to sin”Matthew 13:41 I read the Gospel for today and didn’t even notice it. Sitting at Mass tonight this verse lept up and punched me hard in the gut. The…
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Face to Face
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 17th week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28 Matthew 13:36-43 Loquebatur autem Dominus ad Moysen facie ad faciem, sicut solet loqui homo ad amicum suum. The LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to his friend. The Hebrew word used…
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Looking Trough a Cloud Darkly
✙JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 16th week Tempus per Annum (C1) Exodus 14:21-15:1 Matthew 12:46-50 In the night watch just before dawn the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic. If you read Gone with the Wind you get a…
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First Apostle of the Risen Christ
✙JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Mary MagdalenMonday in the 16th week Tempus per Annum (C1) II Corinthians 5:14-17 John 20:1-2, 11-18 Si qua ergo in Christo nova creatura, vetera transierunt : ecce facta sunt omnia nova. So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold,…
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Actually He Did Say That
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 15th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C1): Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Si tamen audieris vocem Domini Dei tui, et custodieris praecepta ejus et caeremonias, quae in hac lege conscripta sunt. If thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written…
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What Do You Fear?
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26A Matthew 10:24-33 Si patremfamilias Beelzebub vocaverunt, quanto magis domesticos ejus? Nolite timere eos qui occidunt corpus, animam autem non possunt occidere.If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household? Do not be…
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Mira! El Otro!
✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 14th Week, Tempus per Annum (C1): Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 Matthew 10:16-23 Tradet autem frater fratrem in mortem, et pater filium: et insurgent filii in parentes, et morte eos afficient: et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum: qui autem perseveraverit usque in finem, hic salvus erit. Brother will hand over…
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