A journal of byzantine digressionS
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A family like yours or mine…
✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…
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The Medium is the Message
JMJ The Readings for Monday in the Fifth Week of EasterThe Feast of Pope St Pius V Acts 14:5-18 John 14:21-26 Even with these words, they scarcely restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them. This scene of the Lystrians offering sacrifices to Zeus and Hermes is one of my favorite events in all of…
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I in you.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Sunday of Easter (B2) Among the Dominicans, The Feast of St Catherine of Siena Acts 8:26-31 1 John 3:18-24 John 15:1-8 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ehe Catechism Tjus Jesu Christi : et diligamus alterutrum…We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ: and love one…
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Sometimes it’s totally needed
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52 John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…
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Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25 John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…
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Here Kitty, Kitty.
✙ JMJ The Readings for St Mark, EvangelistWednesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) 1 Peter 5:5B-14 Mark 16:15-20 Sobrii estote, et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret : cui resistite fortes in fide.Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about…
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Hanukkah in the Nile.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 11:19-26 John 10:22-30 Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. The Feast of the Dedication. Jesus is chilling in the temple…
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Sonnet XV Good Friday. 3PM.
The darken’d Sun turns sharply to the WestThe crying women now a muffl’d soundThe crowds still gaping silent stand aroundThe Roman circus ceases to molest The body nearly now by life unboundUnseen the Angels horror gathering nowPenultimate redemption’s dying bowIn spittle blood and urine stains the ground Divinely plan’d this death he will endowWith life…
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I want you. To want me.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 7:51—8:1A John 6:30-35 Ego sum panis vitae.I am the bread of life.In the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer 1979 there is a Eucharistic Anaphora that includes the lines: Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this table for solace only and…
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When the heart is ready the teacher will come.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 5:34-42 John 6:1-15 Surgens autem quidam in concilio pharisaeus, nomine Gamaliel, legisdoctor, honorabilis universae plebi, jussit foras ad breve homines fieri, dixitque ad illos…But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by…
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Verba Vitae
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Wednesday of Easter (B2) Acts 5:17-26 John 3:16-21 Ite, et stantes loquimini in templo plebi omnia verba vitae hujus. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. What are omnia verba vitae hujus? What are all the words of this life? Is this…
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A Community of Christians in Charity with the World
✙ JMJ The Readings for in Easter Week (B2) Acts 4:32-37 John 3:7B-15 Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos.For neither was there any one needy among them.They will know we are Christians by our love, y’all. So where are there needy folks sitting in the pew next to you, or on the bus next…
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Mamma Don’t Allow no Kyriopascha ‘Round Here
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Annunciation (Transferred) Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10 Hebrews 10:4-10 Luke 1:26-38 Ecce ancilla Domini. Behold the handmaiden of the Lord.Our Mother, the Holy Church of Rome, will not allow a feast or Solemnity to impinge on the period between Palm Sunday and the 2nd Sunday of Easter. Anything that needs to be…
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Yeah, You Didn’t Build That
✙ JMJ The Readings for 2nd Sunday of Easter (Domenica in Albis) (B2) Acts 4:32-35 1 John 5:1-6 John 20:19-31 Nec quisquam eorum quae possidebat, aliquid suum esse dicebat, sed erant illis omnia communia. Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos: Dividebatur autem singulis prout cuique opus erat.No one said that aught of the things which he…
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Sola Scriptura Anonymous
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…
Orthoparadoxy 