A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Loving is not A Like and Share.
The Readings for the 23rd Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way. Luke 6:26 (NABRE) THE NEED TO HAVE other speak well of one’s self is, perhaps not always as great as the need to have others speak
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The Wholly Name
The Readings for the 23rd Tuesday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. Luke 6:19 (NABRE) WHEN THE ANGEL Spoke to Mary (in Luke 1:32) she was told she would have a Son and she should call him Jesus. Later,
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Pulled the Trigger
YER HOST WOKE UP THIS AM KNOWING today Facebook would end. It’s not clear why this was the case but a book we are currently reading (see blow) indicated one should spend ten hours in homily prep. The question of where those hours would come from answered itself upon waking this AM. Facebook was gone
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Dryness in Prayer
The Readings for the 22nd Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch. Luke 5:4 SO ONCE AGAIN, the CFRs are on point, talking about Dryness in Prayer in their latest Podcast. The full episode is embedded below, but listening, I was struck suddenly with the
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Mercy Sakes Alive
POPE BENEDICT XVI has this pedagogical trick, pardon the word, of pulling back from a Biblical pericope to look at the context in which the writer has placed the words of Jesus. It’s not a trick really, but so few people do it. It’s a logical and yet entirely different way to look at scripture
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Still Keeping Watch
The Readings for the 21st Saturday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St Monica I Corinthians 1:26-31 Matthew 25:14-30 After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. Matthew 25:19 THE TONE FOR THIS XXIst Week of Ordinary Time was set on Sunday when we heard Jesus answer the
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Keep Keeping Watch
The Readings for the 21st Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl. James of Bevagna, OP, friar and priest I Corinthians 1:17-25 Matthew 25:1-13 Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Matthew 25:14 ONCE AGAIN THE NABRE Renders the Greek as “Stay awake” instead of keep watch or even be
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Keep Watch
The Readings for the 21st Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Saint Louis, King of France I Corinthians 1:1-9 Matthew 24:42-51 Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Matthew 24:42 (AV) RUNNING HISTORY through filters of modern politics always leads us into trouble, but today’s Saint, King Louis
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Diapostolic Dispersion
The Readings for the 20th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Isaiah 66:18-21 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. Luke 13:24 THIS PAST SUNDAY’S Readings presented an interesting reading of some bad things: The Babylonian
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Heart and Soul, I fell in love with you
The Readings for the 20th Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl. Jordan of Pisa, friar and priest Ezekiel 37:1-14 Matthew 22:34-40 Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, and we are cut off. Ezekiel 37:11b WHAT WAS OUR LORD DOING, amending the Sh’ema? You might not notice it if you quickly read
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Come as you are. But…
The Readings for the 20th Thursday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl. Mannes, brother of St Dominic Ezekiel 36:23-28 Matthew 22:1-14 My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment? Matthew 22:12 (AV) ONE CAN READ the King’s Question as rather snobbish: this is a wedding. Why are you not
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What You Need and Nothing More.
The Readings for the 20th Wednesday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of St. Hyacinth of Poland, friar and priest Ezekiel 34:1-11 Matthew 20:1-16 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? Matthew 20:15 (AV) THE PAIRING OF THESE TWO readings seems strange,
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This is our Mother
The Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady Revelation 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB I Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.
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Aretha and von Hildebrand
The Readings for the 20th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Hebrews 12:1-4 Luke 12:49-53 Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us Hebrews 12:1b THE GOSPEL TODAY is one of the Hard
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Godwin’s Law You Know
The Readings for the 19th Friday, Tempus per Annum (C2)Memorial of Bl Jane de Chantal Ezekiel 16:1-15, 60, 63 Matthew 19:3-12 For I will re-establish my covenant with you, that you may know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace,
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