Category: RRCreadings

  • THEM

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Matthew 5:43-48 Ego autem dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos.But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute…

  • Whales Tales

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo.And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time.The first words in the Book of the Prophet Jonas are “Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam…” and there…

  • We can totally ignore this part…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, 1st Week of Lent (B2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18  Matthew 25:31-46 Et ibunt hi in supplicium aeternum : justi autem in vitam aeternam.And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.  A friend outside of Catholic Mass, gathering signatures for helping the homeless was told by…

  • Preaching to those in Prison

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 9:8-15 I Peter 3:18-22  Mark 1:12-15 In quo et his, qui in carcere erant, spiritibus veniens praedicavit : qui increduli fuerant aliquandont”In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: Which had been some time incredulous. This passage from St Peter is…

  • Who’s Coming to Dinner?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at San Augustino Isaiah 58:9B-14 Luke 5:27-32 Et fecit ei convivium magnum Levi in domo sua : et erat turba multa publicanorum, et aliorum qui cum illis erant discumbentes.And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a…

  • Why We Fast

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at Santi Giovanni e Paulo Isaiah 58:1-9a Matthew 9:14-15 Ecce ad lites et contentiones jejunatis, et percutitis pugno impie.  Behold you fast for debates and strife. and strike with the fist wickedly.I have to be fast. It’s far too late for me to be…

  • There’s a better choice…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday Station at San Giorgio  Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Luke 9:22-25 Qui enim voluerit animam suam salvam facere, perdet illam.For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it.There is the most wonderful word play here, in the Greek. Our Lord says, in 3 short verses (from 22-25), that …

  • This week was next week last week.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at Santa Sabina Joel 2:12-18  II Corinthians 5:20—6:2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile, ecce nunc dies salutis.Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.What is your life worth today?What if I told you it is worth an infinity of…

  • The Hunger Games

    Westin St Francis Hotel in SF, 1904 ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Tuesday of Ordinary Time (B2) Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras James 1:12-18 Mark 8:14-21 Nemo cum tentatur, dicat quoniam a Deo tentatur : Deus enim intentator malorum est : ipse autem neminem tentat.Let no man, when he is tempted, say that…

  • I’ve got the joy joy joy joy….

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Monday of Ordinary Time (B2) James 1:1-11 Mark 8:11-13 Omne gaudium existimate fratres mei, cum in tentationes varias incideritis : scientes quod probatio fidei vestrae patientiam operatur. Patientia autem opus perfectum habet : ut sitis perfecti et integri in nullo deficientes.My brethren, count it all joy, when you…

  • Soft hands are important…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46  I Corinthians 10:31—11:1 Mark 1:40-45 …et tangens eum… …and touching him… Lepers in ancient Israel were untouchable. We are told in Leviticus that they had to not only avoid other people, but also they had to scare other people away.…

  • Nothing so Deep

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Friday of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 Mark 7:31-37 Et suscipiens in caelum, ingemuit, et ait illi : Ephphetha, quod est, Adaperire. Et statim apertae sunt aures ejus, et solutum est vinculum linguae ejus, et loquebatur recte. And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him:…

  • What I did for Love

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Thursday of Ordinary Time (B2)  I Kings 11:4-13  Mark 7:24-30 Tunc aedificavit Salomon fanum Chamos, idolo Moab, in monte qui est contra Jerusalem, et Moloch idolo filiorum Ammon. Atque in hunc modum fecit universis uxoribus suis alienigenis, quae adolebant thura, et immolabant diis suis.  Then Solomon built a…

  • Unto the Beasts that Perish

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Wednesday of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 10:1-10  Mark 7:14-23 Omnia haec mala ab intus procedunt, et communicant hominem.All these evil things come from within, and defile a man. In the world of Middle Earth, every race has their own language: there’s dwarvish, two different elvishes, orkish, something called…

  • Mitis et Humilis Corde

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Monday of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 8:1-7, 9-13 Mark 6:53-56 Factum est autem, cum exissent sacerdotes de sanctuario, nebula implevit domum Domini, et non poterant sacerdotes stare et ministrare propter nebulam : impleverat enim gloria Domini domum Domini.And it came to pass, when the priests were come…