Category: RRCreadings
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The Liberal One.
The Readings for the 15th Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor of the Church Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 Matthew 12:1-8 I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. Matthew 12:6 NASTY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE in today’s Gospel are trying to make the Disciples follow their mean nasty rules. Americans…
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Like Jimmy Carter said…
The Readings for the 15th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 Matthew 11:28-30 Your name and your title are the desire of our souls. Isaiah 26:8 NOT REALLY SURE What the lectionary crafters are doing here. The translation “your name and your title” is an odd turn…
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ABBAbandonment Issues
The Readings for the 15th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Henry, King Isaiah 10:5-7, 13B-16 Matthew 11:25-27 No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27b TO WHOM DO YOU PRAY? I’ve been wrestling with this a lot lately. So much Christian…
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Turn, turn, turn, will be our death.
The Readings for the 15th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 7:1-9 Matthew 11:20-24 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. Matthew 11:21 WHOA, there! Jesus is being rather…
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Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.
The Readings for the 15th Monday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot Isaiah 1:10-17 Matthew 10:34-11:1 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Matthew 10:40 THIS WHOLE PASSAGE can seem strange. Swords, dysfunctional family fighting, etc. Ranks up there with the cut off your hands and…
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Very Near Indeed
The Readings for the 15th Sunday, Tempus per Annum Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” Luke 10:26 LET’S FIRST LOOK at Moses, speaking in Deuteronomy. Our NABRE translation uses the pronoun “it” in verse 14: No, it is something very…
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Mouth on Fire
The Readings for the 14th Saturday, Tempus per AnnumMemorial of St. John of Cologne, OP, & Companions, martyrs Isaiah 6:1-8 Matthew 10:24-33 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. Isaiah 6:6 DURING THE LITURGIES OF St John Chrysostom and St Basil the…
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Xanadu
The Readings for the 14th Friday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 14:2-10 Matthew 10:16-23 Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking…
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Pauline Slang
The Readings for the 14th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 66:10-14c Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Galatians 6:15 (NABRE) UNCIRCUMCISION Is such an odd word. Of course, it means “gentile”, that is, person without a circumcision. But that’s really the…
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Worse than 1867
The Readings for the 14th Thursday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 11:1-4, 8E-9 Matthew 10:7-15 Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. Matthew 10:15 ¶1867 OF THE CATECHISM is one of those hard ones. It lists the…
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Autobasileia
The Readings for the 14th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 Matthew 10:1-7 Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 10:6-7 JESUS SENDS His disciples ahead of him to the towns the plans to visit:…
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Wineskins
The Readings for the 13th Saturday, Tempus per Annum Amos 9:11-15 Matthew 9:14-17 The plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed. Amos 9:13 (NABRE) SHABBAT SHALOM! Nerdy side note: in all romance languages, the days are numbered: Day 2, Day 3. Day seven is usually always some form of…
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Water
The Readings for the 13th Friday, Tempus per Annum – Memorial of Junipero Serra Amos 8:4-6, 9-12 Matthew 9:9-13 Learn the meaning of the saying, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Matthew 9:13 (NABRE) THE JESUS PSALTER has become my favorite devotion. There are many editions of it online and off although the first one I…
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Plumb and Level
The Readings for the 13th Thursday, Tempus per Annum – Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Amos 7:10-17 Matthew 9:1-8 But never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple. Matthew 8:25 (NABRE) SUNDAY I was able to attend Mass at our Cathedral. This was the…
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Three Singers, One Song
The Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Apostles Acts 12:1-11 II Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16:13-19 It was the feast of the Unleavened Bread Acts 12:3 (NABRE) TODAY’S FEAST CELEBRATES TWO Men who sang the same song. They were both martyred for the song because they refused to change the tune when the empire demanded…
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