A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Who is gonna keep you outta glory?
✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:9-12 Mark 10:1-12 Nolite ingemiscere, fratres, in alterutrum, ut non judicemini. Ecce judex ante januam assistit.Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door. I heard a sermon earlier this week that…
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But our Money says “In God We Trust…”
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 5:1-6 Mark 9:41-50 Ecce merces operariorum, qui messuerunt regiones vestras, quae fraudata est a vobis, clamat : et clamor eorum in aures Domini sabbaoth introivit. Epulati estis super terram, et in luxuriis enutristis corda vestra in die occisionis. Behold, the wages of the…
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Deus Vult!
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:13-17 Mark 9:38-40 Si Dominus voluerit. Et : Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud. If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that. I watched the Pope Francis movie last Saturday. One of the things it did was…
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Shine! Shine, O New Jerusalem
✙ JMJ The Readings for Mary, Mother of the ChurchMonday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) Genesis 3:9-15, 20 John 19:25-34 Diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob. Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei! Numquid Sion dicet : Homo et homo natus est in ea? et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus.The Lord loveth the…
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Cheating on my Husband.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:1-10 Mark 9:30-37 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend…
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Light one candle.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 John 21:20-25 Domine, hic autem quid?Quid ad te? tu me sequere. Lord, what about him?What is that to you? You follow me.Peter, with a growing sense of… something… turns around and sees the Evangelist John taking notes like some Cub…
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No. Boys always say, “I love you *too*”
✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 25:13b-21 John 21:15-19 Dicit ei tertio : Simon Joannis, amas me? Contristatus est Petrus, quia dixit ei tertio : Amas me? He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said…
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Dīvide et Impera
✙ JMJ The Readings for in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 John 17:20-26 Viri fratres, ego pharisaeus sum, filius pharisaeorum, de spe et resurrectione mortuorum ego judicor.Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Philip of Macedonia,…
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May not be a Bruce Lee quote. But it’s true.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:28-38 John 17:11b-19 Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. There’s this great line in St Catherine’s…
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Work Ethic
Thinking tonight about Duffy’s “Stripping of the Altars” and the Henrican Reformation: focusing on the cultural shift away from a Catholic, community village/farmland surrounded and supported by the Church’s feasting and fasting, work day and holy day schedule, to a Protestant, urban, individualistic culture, devoid of fasting or holy days (other than Sunday). The idea…
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Tante Corrie Knows
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:17-27 John 17:1-11a Sed nihil horum vereor : nec facio animam meam pretiosiorem quam me, dummodo consummem cursum meum, et ministerium verbi, quod accepi a Domino Jesu, testificari Evangelium gratiae Dei.But I fear none of these things, neither do I count…
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Once there was a Pentarchy.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Feast of St Matthias, ApostleMonday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 John 15:9-17 Et dederunt sortes eis, et cecidit sors super Mathiam, et annumeratus est cum undecim Apostolis. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the…
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Filling All Things with Light
✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Ascension (B2) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 4:1-13 Mark 16:15-20 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terrae? Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos, ut…
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So, about this wall…
✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 15:22-31 John 15:12-17 Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. One thing I often…
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I am divine, you are dibranches.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6 John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…
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