Category: RRCreadings

  • Excursus: Yoke

    IN JESUS’ WORLD, righteousness is man’s answer to the Torah, acceptance of the whole of God’s will, the bearing of the ‘yoke of God’s kingdom,’ as one formulation had it.” (Jesus of Nazareth p 17) Jesus says “Take my yoke upon you” seemingly out of the blue. But it is part of a wider rabbinic…

  • Sheer Grace

    From a sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop(Sermo 185: PL 38, 997-999) Truth has arisen from the earth, and justice looked down from heaven Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You…

  • The Oneness of God

    The Oneness of God

    The readings for the 31st Sunday Tempus per Annum (Year B): – Deuteronomy 6:2-6 – Hebrews 7:23-28 – Mark 12:28b-34 שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְיְ אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְיְ אֶחָֽד Hear Israel the Lord Our God, the Lord is One. (Please note that LORD indicates the divine name was used in the Hebrew text.) Reading the Gospel we are…

  • Consider What You Say

    From the letter of Blessed Humbert of Romans On Regular Observance (Opera de Vita Regulari). This is the alternative Second Reading for the Office of Readings on the Memorial of Bl Mannes, the brother of St Dominic (18 August). This is from the Daily Office propers of the Order of Preachers. A brother should never…

  • Love Hurts

    The Readings for the 7th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (A2) Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 Your heavenly Father… makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. I wanted to talk today about the Curious change when Jesus quotes from…

  • Theodicy

    The readings for the 29th Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C1) Romans 8:1-11 Luke 13:1-9 Putatis quod hi Galilaei prae omnibus Galilaeis peccatores fuerint, quia talia passi sunt? Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? Back in 1985, I took a year off college.…

  • The Israel of God

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 16th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 Matthew 12:38-42 Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut quid molestus fui tibi? Responde mihi. Quia eduxi te de terra Aegypti, et de domo servientium liberavi te, et misi ante faciem tuam Moysen, et Aaron, et Mariam. O my…

  • Filling All Things with Light

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Ascension (B2) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 4:1-13 Mark 16:15-20 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terrae? Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos, ut…

  • So, about this wall…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…

  • I am divine, you are dibranches.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6  John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • I in you.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  the 5th Sunday of Easter (B2) Among the Dominicans, The Feast of St Catherine of Siena Acts 8:26-31 1 John 3:18-24  John 15:1-8 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ehe Catechism Tjus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum…We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one…

  • Sometimes it’s totally needed

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52  John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself.  The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…

  • Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25  John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…

  • Here Kitty, Kitty.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Mark, EvangelistWednesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) 1 Peter 5:5B-14  Mark 16:15-20 Sobrii estote, et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret : cui resistite fortes in fide.Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about…