Category: RRCreadings

  • Because It’s…

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Monday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 15:16-23  Mark 2:18-22 Quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est, repugnare: et quasi scelus idololatriæ, nolle acquiescere. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Samuel goes to Saul to say look, you…

  • Politicians.

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Tuesday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 16:1-13 Mark 2:23-28 Ne respicias vultum ejus, neque altitudinem staturæ ejus: quoniam abjeci eum, nec juxta intuitum hominis ego judico: homo enim videt ea quæ parent, Dominus autem intuetur cor.Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature:…

  • Wherein Fr Martin is – Briefly – Right

    Orthodox Monastic Building a Bridge ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Sunday, 2nd Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  1 Samuel 3:3B-10, 19 1 Corinthians 6:13C-15A, 17-20 John 1:35-42 Tu es Simon, filius Jona; tu vocaberis Cephas, quod interpretatur Petrus.Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter. Did you…

  • Saul and Matthew

    ✙  JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2):  I Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 Mark 2:13-17 Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester? Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners?The Latin does render it very enjoyably, no? “Why, with publicans and sinners, eats and drinks this Master…

  • Perverse and Foolish

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): I Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22A Mark 2:1-12 Non enim te abjecerunt, sed me, ne regnem super eos.For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.God sounds rather downcast here. Give them what they want…Except I think that would…

  • Totally Scooped by the Bishop

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Mark 1:40-45 If you were reading along yesterday, you may be thinking I was in a Dark Spiral of some sort, and you’d be right. I was totally going somewhere with this, but I hadn’t noticed that this is also…

  • My Favourite

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Mark 1:29-39  Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. This scene…

  • Mortimer and Me.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all. Today is the first…

  • Come. Buy and Eat.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Baptism  of Our Lord: Isaiah 55:1-11 Mark 1:7-11 Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac. Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate?  All you that thirst,…

  • Venite Adoremus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of Our Lord: Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 Prout potestis legentes intelligere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi: Gentes esse cohæredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per Evangelium. As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ:…

  • Questions Not for Cowans.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8th Day before the Ides of January: I John 5:5-13 Mark 1:7-11 Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus estIf we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater.St John is writing to believers and not to the unbelieving. This argument that follows is of no…

  • Nemo Vos Seducat

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Day before the Nones of January,Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: 1 John 3:7-10 John 1:35-42  Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit justitiam, justus est, sicut et ille justus est.  Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. You…

  • Non Solum Fides.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Day before the Nones of January: I John 2:29–3:6 John 1:29-34 Et omnis qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus est. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. On Sunday, Fr Joseph Illo preached an excellent…

  • Oooo. Scaaaary.

    Source ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Day before the Nones of January: 1 John 2:22-28 John 1:19-28 Hæc scripsi vobis de his, qui seducant vos. I write you these things about those who would deceive you.  John, writing in the mid 70s (ish) of the 1st Century is already aware of Antichrist and…

  • Contemplata Aliis Tradere

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8va Day of Christmas, The Solemnity of the Mother of God: Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21 Maria autem conservabat omnia verba hæc, conferens in corde suo.But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.How does Luke know this? Because Mary told him…St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that “Vita…