A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Saul and Matthew
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): I Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 Mark 2:13-17 Quare cum publicanis et peccatoribus manducat et bibit Magister vester? Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners?The Latin does render it very enjoyably, no? “Why, with publicans and sinners, eats and drinks this Master…
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Perverse and Foolish
✙ JMJ The Readings for Friday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): I Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22A Mark 2:1-12 Non enim te abjecerunt, sed me, ne regnem super eos.For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.God sounds rather downcast here. Give them what they want…Except I think that would…
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Totally Scooped by the Bishop
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Mark 1:40-45 If you were reading along yesterday, you may be thinking I was in a Dark Spiral of some sort, and you’d be right. I was totally going somewhere with this, but I hadn’t noticed that this is also…
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Fellowship of St Mary of Egypt
I am a member of Courage, and while I find their ministry in my life a great blessing, I’m struggling with my presence there. I have trouble with the 12 Step Model when we’re not trying to address an addiction (there is some overlap with the SA groups in town). It does provide a forum…
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My Favourite
✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Mark 1:29-39 Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. This scene…
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Mortimer and Me.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday, 1st Week of Ordinary Time (B2): 1 Samuel 1:9-20 Mark 1:21-28 Porro Anna loquebatur in corde suo, tantumque labia illius movebantur, et vox penitus non audiebatur. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all. Today is the first…
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Come. Buy and Eat.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Baptism of Our Lord: Isaiah 55:1-11 Mark 1:7-11 Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac. Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate? All you that thirst,…
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Against False Union
+JMJ+ I was struggling my way through the Rosary this morning before Mass, thinking of someone I’d met recently, who will let no one tell him no. All of the world is wrong and he is right. Even science is wrong. And I was wrestling with that concept, through the mystery of the Assumption of…
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Venite Adoremus
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of Our Lord: Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3A, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 Prout potestis legentes intelligere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi: Gentes esse cohæredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per Evangelium. As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ:…
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Questions Not for Cowans.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8th Day before the Ides of January: I John 5:5-13 Mark 1:7-11 Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus estIf we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater.St John is writing to believers and not to the unbelieving. This argument that follows is of no…
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Nemo Vos Seducat
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Day before the Nones of January,Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: 1 John 3:7-10 John 1:35-42 Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit justitiam, justus est, sicut et ille justus est. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. You…
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Non Solum Fides.
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 3rd Day before the Nones of January: I John 2:29–3:6 John 1:29-34 Et omnis qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus est. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. On Sunday, Fr Joseph Illo preached an excellent…
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Oooo. Scaaaary.
Source ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 4th Day before the Nones of January: 1 John 2:22-28 John 1:19-28 Hæc scripsi vobis de his, qui seducant vos. I write you these things about those who would deceive you. John, writing in the mid 70s (ish) of the 1st Century is already aware of Antichrist and…
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Cranberry Celebration Copycat Recipe
If you live near a Kroger’s or a King Sooper (that’s in Colorado) then you know what is this thing called Cranberry Celebration. My parents love it so much that they will do a day trip up to that College Town that has neither Alabama, nor Georgia, nor even Georgia Tech in it, just to…
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Contemplata Aliis Tradere
✙ JMJ The Readings for the 8va Day of Christmas, The Solemnity of the Mother of God: Numbers 6:22-27 Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21 Maria autem conservabat omnia verba hæc, conferens in corde suo.But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.How does Luke know this? Because Mary told him…St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that “Vita…
Orthoparadoxy 