A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Kerygnu?
How do you find ways in your life to manifest the things from the Golden Road, assuming you want to? I mean, the things that all cultures say are good and wholesome, would it not make sense to follow them? Most of us claim to believe this: we say “all religions agree, just be kind…”…
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Mass for Five Voices
At St Dominic’s on Sunday we heard parts of William Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices, sung without humorous comment by 30 voices in choir. Byrd’s Masses for three, four, and five voices were composed between 1592 and 1595 when the aging Elizabeth (pictured above from 1595) was hounding Catholics all over England, killing them or…
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Kerygmama – Departing Tao
We are schooled by our legal system to think of “sin” as a series of discrete actions that are each a negative point against us. Instead, sin is this departure itself.
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Kerygmore – Why the SNAFU?
JMJ✙ I now have to say another thing as huge as my first point. It may even be harder to accept. No one (or very few), in this age of enlightenment, believes in science. Unlike the God thing, I can actually prove this one. Once someone I knew spent $20 on $2 lottery tickets. On…
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I Think You Have Questions
Questions always arise about my participation in Church. I think they are valid questions, but I think they are often predicated on invalid assumptions: essentially, they are some form of How can you do this? Where this is incorrectly understood or defined. As a result of “this” being incorrectly defined often “you” and “do” are…
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A Vision of Autumnal Beige
JMJ This is my favourite time of the year, the part of the school year, if you will, that leads up to Christmas: from just after my birthday through what was my late brother’s birthday (today) and on into the gathering gloom of the Autumn Twilight into Winter Dark, we find so may lamps to…
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Trust the Brothers
JMJ It’s like a big game of “trust”. You stand on the back of a sofa or, perhaps, a coffee table. My fraternity called it couch diving: we run across the living room, jump up on the back of a sofa spring up in the air, and do a backflip or a twist in the…
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Prophet Priest and King
JMJ My friend Michael shared with me an insight from Fr Michael Sweeney, OP. Be mindful this has gone through two human brains to get to your screen, so I’ve only got one little snippet: When you come to the altar to receive Christ you come as representing all the people to whom you will…
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We’re gonna have a R’lyeh big shew.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum, et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.That at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and…
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AEEEEEEE-LEEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAAAA!
✙JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John ChrysostomFriday in the 23rd week Tempus per Annum (C1) 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 Luke 6:39-42 Numquid potest caecus caecum ducere? nonne ambo in foveam cadunt? Non est discipulus super magistrum : perfectus autem omnis erit, si sit sicut magister ejus.Can a blind person guide a blind…
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Symmetric Condemnation
Back in my ECUSA days I had a nemesis on the internet. They would literally pounce on anything I said. To be fair they were anyone’s nemesis. There was a reply for everything and everything got a reply. I met this person when I first logged on to Prodigy. They were there when we opened…
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…I met a man with seven wives…
If we are united to Christ and share in the fullness of God-stuff (as we noted yesterday) then it’s all done, right? No. For what we discover if we pay any attention to ourselves is that there are a lot of things present in us that seem to have a certain quality of “B.C.” How…
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All the fullness
The NABRE gets the Greek text here better than a good many Protestant Bibles: Christ is filled with the πλήρωμα pleroma, the fullness of the θεότης theotes, the “God-stuff” and in him, we share in this πλήρωμα as well. This would be horrifying to most modern Protestants, although the Wesley brothers, at least, along with…
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Offering it up
The Readings for the Memorial of St Peter ClaverMonday in the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time, C1 Colossians 1:24-2:3 Luke:6:6-11 Qui nunc gaudeo in passionibus pro vobis, et adimpleo ea quae desunt passionem Christi, in carne mea pro corpore ejus, quod est EcclesiaI rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I…
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Except you ravish me
JMJ The readings in the daily office follow a cycle through the year but on Saints days, other readings may take over. On some saints’ days, two readings are moved in – the readings of the day are suppressed. On other feast days, only one reading is swapped in. I find these days interesting. The…
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