Category: visitation

  • Peniel

    Peniel

    JMJ✙ The Readings for the Memorial of St Benedict, Abbot14th Tuesday, Tempus per Annum “Because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.” Genesis 32:30 THE AUTHOR is continually surprised at the different ways ancient stories are read by Christians as compared to Jews. The rabbinic tradition is…

  • Barren Trees Die

    Barren Trees Die

    JMJ✙ The Readings for the 8th Friday of Ordinary Time And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. Mark 11:14 (RSVCE) SO MANY SERMONS ON this passage make it out to be about Israel, or the Temple priesthood. In fact, the footnotes on the…

  • Nothing Ordinary

    Nothing Ordinary

    JMJ✙ The Readings for the Visitation of Mary8th Wednesday of Ordinary Time The Lord your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17 (RSVCE) WHEN MARY Visits Elizabeth their…

  • I must go see my cousin

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of the Visitation: Zephaniah 3:14-18 Luke 1:39-56 He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.I’m going to pick this up where I left off last…

  • It takes a strong constitution to be Queen.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Zephaniah  3:14-18A Luke 1:39-56 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo: dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. Esurientes implevit bonis: et divites dimisit inanes. He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He hath put down the…