Category: RRCreadings

  • Send the Rich Away.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Tuesday 2 Advent): Apocalyps 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB Luke 1:39-47 Et signum magnum apparuit in cælo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim… And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and…

  • It just fell through, bang smash!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 2 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 5:17-26 Lætabitur deserta et invia, et exsultabit solitudo, et florebit quasi lilium. Germinans germinabit, et  lætabunda et laudans. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. It shall bud forth…

  • Flame. It… Flames

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 2 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 II Peter 3:8-14 Mark 1:1-8 Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur: in quo cæli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt opera, exurentur.  But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in…

  • How to Win at Quidditch by Trying Really Hard.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5A, 6-8 Erunt oculi tui videntes præceptorem tuum. Et aures tuæ audient verbum post tergum monentis: Hæc est via; ambulate in ea, et non declinetis neque ad dexteram, neque ad sinistram. With your own eyes you shall see your Teacher, While…

  • Ye who own the faith of Jesus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception: Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Ave gratia plena: Dominus tecum.Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you. Unto whomst (as all the cool kiddies say on Twitter) else has the Lord ever said “Full of Grace”? Unto which of the…

  • When in Rome…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Dixit Jesus: Non omnis qui dicit mihi, Domine, Domine, intrabit in regnum cælorum: sed qui facit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in cælis est, ipse intrabit in regnum cælorum. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom…

  • It’s all sin. Come and feast.

    Happy St Nicholas Day! ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 25:6-10A Matthew 15:29-37 Et accesserunt ad eum turbæ multæ, habentes secum mutos, cæcos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos: et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos.Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed,…

  • The American Way: Something about the Reaping…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 11:1-10 Luke 10:21-24 Quod abscondisti hæc a sapientibus et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.  Thou hast hidden all this from the wise and the prudent, and revealed it to little children. Monty Pythons, Meaning of Life, Part VII, Death. Death walks into a rural…

  • Well. Isn’t That Special.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday 1 Advent (Year 2): Isaiah 2:1-5 Matthew 8:5-11 I heard a sermon on this passage once where the Centurion’s servant was called his lover. At that time, I did a search (I think it was called “Ask Jeeves” in that century, or maybe Yahoo) and I found no resources…

  • See the Watch Swing Back and Forth

      + JMJ The Readings for Sunday 1 Advent (Year B): Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 Videte vigilate et orate nescitis enim quando tempus sit Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. The first Sunday of Advent is the first Sunday of the Church…

  • A New (Old) Commitment

    15 years ago I started a daily post on the assigned readings in the ECUSA Daily Office.  It was a two year commitment, and I made it all the way through. Most weeks I missed one day (some weeks 2), and if I went on vacation, I announced the downtime. This process involved research and…

  • Continuity and Rupture

    In the last two weeks of the Lectionary, Weeks 29 and 30 of year A, we’ve had this story (in two parts): The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and…

  • This is not an interfaith dialogue.

    + JMJ Today’s Readings: Isaiah 55:6-9 Philippians 1:20C-24, 27A Matthew 20:1-16A Et nunc magnificabitur Christus in corpore meo, sive per vitam, sive per mortem. Mihi enim vivere Christus est, et mori lucrum. Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.…

  • All Teh Feelz

    + JMJ Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Luke 7:31-35 Dixit Jesus, “Cui ergo similes dicam homines generationis hujus? et cui similes sunt? Similes sunt pueris sedentibus in foro, et loquentibus ad invicem, et dicentibus: Cantavimus vobis tibiis, et non saltastis: lamentavimus, et non plorastis.”Jesus said, “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What…

  • Enculturated

    Today’s readings: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Luke 7:11-17 Suæ domui bene præpositum: filios habentem subditos cum omni castitate. Si quis autem domui suæ præesse nescit, quomodo ecclesiæ Dei diligentiam habebit? He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with perfect dignity; for if a man does not know how to manage his own…