A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Stop Sanitizing Communion
+JMJ+ A list of reasons not to use hand sanitizer before distribution of Holy Communion: 1 It only kills the germs in your hands in the moment. If you’re sick you shouldn’t be giving out communion, and this will not stop you from passing germs to those you touch, breathe on, etc. 2 It contains…
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My Face Hurts…
✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 30th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 4:32-5:8 Luke 13:10-17 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos : aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quae ad rem non pertinet : sed magis gratiarum actio.But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,…
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All are welcome!
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 3:14-21 Luke 12:49-53 In caritate radicati, et fundati, ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quae sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum : scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.That you, being rooted and…
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The Domestics
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:12-22 Luke 12:35-38 Quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ambo in uno Spiritu ad Patrem. Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenae : sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei.For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the…
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All I Want is My Fair Share
✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 29th week of Ordinary Time (B2) Ephesians 2:1-10 Luke 12:13-21 Videte, et cavete ab omni avaritia… Take heed and beware of all covetousness… The Gospel is messy: it doesn’t color between the lines we’ve drawn. Who in this brief Gospel story of familial dysfunction gets your sympathy?…
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Lord, can we ask you something?
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B2) Isaiah 53:10-11 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 Magister, volumus ut quodcumque petierimus, facias nobis. Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us. This came up last night at St Dominic’s. It was a surprise to realize, but the…
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Close your eyes and see
+JMJ+ To see us all in glory spreadAcross all ages sownOn Trinal throne our risen headHis members gladly own Seen thus can demons terrifyBy the very brillianceBut focused only through one eyeYou see but this demense How gleeful is the evil hostTo make you yeild‘Gainst gates of hell you will not boastIf but this sword…
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The Apostolic Life
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Luke, Apostle and EvangelistThursday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Timothy 4:10-17B Luke 10:1-9 Nolite portare sacculum, neque peram, neque calceamenta, et neminem per viam salutaveritis.Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. I hear lamentations that some…
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I got my Liberty License
✙ JMJ The Readings for the memorial of St Theresa of Avila, Doctor of the ChurchMonday in the 28th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 4:22 – 5:1 Luke 11:29-32 Itaque, fratres, non sumus ancillae filii, sed liberae : qua libertate Christus nos liberavit. State, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. So then, brethren, we…
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An Ontological Illusion.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:22-29 Luke 11:27-28 Quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis. Non est Judaeus, neque Graecus : non est servus, neque liber : non est masculus, neque femina. Omnes enim vos unum estis in Christo Jesu. For as many of you as…
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What Spirit is We Should Be.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 3:1-5 Luke 11:5-13 O insensati Galatae, quis vos fascinavit non obedire veritati, ante quorum oculos Jesus Christus praescriptus est, in vobis crucifixus? Sic stulti estis, ut cum Spiritu coeperitis, nunc carne consummemini? O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that…
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Don’t Dubia The Import of This
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 Luke 11:1-4 Cum autem venisset Cephas Antiochiam, in faciem ei restiti, quia reprehensibilis erat.But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. Paul has spent the better part of the…
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Stanley & Becoming a (Lay) Dominican (Tertiary)
+JMJ+I’m too old. Roman Catholic orders want young men. They all seem to max out at guys 15 years younger than me. Some don’t want guys more than 20 years younger than me. This is a sad reality for me. For while my experience in a monastery proved to me I wanted to try in…
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Sit Anathema Sit
✙ JMJ The Readings for Monday in the 27th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Galatians 1:6-12 Luke 10:25-37 Si quis vobis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit.If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.Paul is reaching out to the Galatian churches. (Galatians = Gauls =…
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200 Mysteries
✙ JMJ Rosary Sunday (Our Lady of Victory) This is a special feast for the Dominicans: it even trumps Sunday. That said, I don’t know the readings for today. The Rosary is a compendium of the entire Gospel. In prayer it unites us with Christ, it unites us with his mother, the first of the…
Orthoparadoxy 