Category: RRCreadings

  • There’s gotta be an easier way…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Exodus 32:7-14 John 5:31-47 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen, dicens : Vade, descende : peccavit populus tuus, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti.And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the…

  • Like a Swiss Army Knife

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 49:8-15  John 5:17-30 Dedi te in foedus populi, ut suscitares terram, et possideres haereditates dissipatas; ut diceres his qui vincti sunt : Exite; et his qui in tenebris : Revelamini. Super vias pascentur, et in omnibus planis pascua eorum.[I have] given thee to…

  • In the Vision-Time

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 John 5:1-16 Certe vidisti, fili hominis?Have you seen this, Son of Man? הֲרָאִ֣יתָ בֶן־אָדָ֑ם Son of Man in the Latin and English. In Hebrew it’s Son of Adam, like in Narnia. Yes, Adam means “man” and also “earth creature”,…

  • Oh, that guy.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent (B2) II Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Non enim misit Deus Filium suum in mundum, ut judicet mundum, sed ut salvetur mundus per ipsum. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be…

  • You want fries with that?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 Matthew 5:17-19 Nolite putare quoniam veni solvere legem, aut prophetas : non veni solvere, sed adimplere.Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. It’s Lent, so…

  • Merely Survived

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 3:25, 34-43  Matthew 18:21-35 Ut possimus invenire misericordiam tuam, sed in animo contrito, et spiritu humilitatis suscipiamur. Sicut in holocausto arietum, et taurorum, et sicut in millibus agnorum pinguium, sic fiat sacrificium nostrum in conspectu tuo hodie, ut placeat tibi, quoniam non…

  • Now, that’s Lent.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 3rd Week f Lent (B2) II Kings 5:1-15 Luke 4:24-30 Et multi leprosi erant in Israel sub Elisaeo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed…

  • None other Gods

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (B2) Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 John 2:13-25 Non habebis deos alienos coram me.Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. There are spoilers in this essay relating to the plot line of a very good book. But the book was published 100 years ago, so…

  • God’s Bearhugging Boy

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20  Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Erant autem appropinquantes ei publicani, et peccatores ut audirent illum. Et murmurabant pharisaei, et scribae, dicentes : Quia hic peccatores recipit, et manducat cum illis. Et ait ad illos parabolam istam.Now the publicans and sinners drew…

  • No pain. No gain.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13A, 17B-28A Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Dixit ergo Judas fratribus suis : Quid nobis prodest si occiderimus fratrem nostrum, et celaverimus sanguinem ipsius? Melius est ut venundetur Ismaelitis, et manus nostrae non polluantur : frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquieverunt fratres…

  • My Own Private Lazarus

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) St David of Wales Jeremiah 17:5-10 Luke 16:19-31 Homo quidam erat dives… There was a certain rich man… We have a huge homeless problem in San Francisco. The problem is we have a huge, wealthy population that’s scared of homeless people.They are scared…

  • Can we? Yes we can!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Jeremiah 18:18-20 Matthew 20:17-28 Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam, et Filius hominis tradetur principibus sacerdotum, et scribis, et condemnabunt eum morte, et tradent eum gentibus ad illudendum, et flagellandum, et crucifigendum…Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to…

  • Might have beens

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Matthew 23:1-12 Projicite a vobis omnes praevaricationes vestras in quibus praevaricati estis, et facite vobis cor novum, et spiritum novum.Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and…

  • Who am I to Judge?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday, the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Daniel 9:4b-10  Luke 6:36-38 Nolite judicare, et non judicabiminiJudge not, and you shall not be judgedThomas Aquinas, in his Catena Aurea (The Golden Chain) notes the following comments from the Fathers on this verse: Ambrose: The Lord added, that we must not readily judge…

  • Akeda

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (B2) Genesis 22:1-2, 9A, 10-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31B-34  Mark 9:2-10 Non pepercisti unigenito filio tuo propter me. Thou hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.  There is so much pain in this story. The Lent that I was at the Monastery, I couldn’t…