A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Who painted it?
Today’s readings: Zechariah 2:10-13 Luke 1:26-38 In Douay, RSV, and NABRE with other Mass texts. Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.Zechariah 2:13 Today is the feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. By the Roman Church she is…
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Wrong God, Wrong Pew
Today’s readings: Isaiah 35:1-6A, 10 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 In the Douay, the RSV, and the NABRE with other Mass texts Confortamini, et nolite timere: ecce Deus vester ultionem adducet retributionis; Deus ipse veniet, et salvabit vos.Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and…
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The Days of Elijah
Today’s Readings: Ben Sira 48:1-4, 9-11 Matthew 17:9A, 10-13 In the RSV and the NABRE with other Mass texts.* And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch. He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for…
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Everybody’s looking for something.
Today’s readings: Isaiah 48:17-19 Matthew 11:16-19 In the Douay, the RSV, or the NABRE with other Mass texts. But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place. Who crying to their companions say…Matthew 11:16-17a I listened to a sermon once, by a professed Atheist,…
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Eva : Ave
Today’s Readings: Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 In the Douay, the RSV, and the NABRE with other Mass texts. And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house…
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It’s all thanksgiving
This whole citythe culturethe foodthe beautyI offer you because here I feel, fully and finally, always at home this parish churchof prayer and praise whereClergy and religious, laity and saintsfind themselves in your presence,I offer you because here i feel, fully and finally, always at home And yet I’m so brokenaware that too much of…
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Not That Song. No!
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 40:25-41 Matthew 11:28-30 In the Douay, RSV, or in the NABRE with other Mass Texts It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.Isaiah 40:29 There came this moment in my daily grind where I said, “yeah, I’m not doing this any…
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The Cloud of Witnesses Averts Their Eyes.
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 40:1-11 Matthew 18:12-14 In the Douay, RSV or the NABRE with other Mass texts All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is…
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Bang. Zoom. Through the roof, Alice.
Today’s readings: Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 5:17-26 This text in the Douay, the RSV, and the NABRE with Mass texts. Quorum fidem ut vidit, dixit: Homo, remittuntur tibi peccata tua.Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.Luke 5:20 Whose faith did Jesus see? Jesus saw the faith of the men who…
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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 Romans 15:4-9 Matthew 3:1-12 In the Douay, the RSV, and the NABRE with other Mass Texts Et dicens: Poenitentiam agite: appropinquavit enim regnum caelorum.Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.Matthew 3:2 After my notes on the readings for the 29th where I celebrated a confusing choice on the…
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Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus!
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 In the Douay, RSV, and NABRE with other Mass propers. Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they…
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Are you Equal to the Apostles?
Today is the Feast of St Andrew in both East and West.Here he is, preaching from his cross before he died. Today’s Readings: Romans 10:9-18 Matthew 4:18-22 RSV, Douay, or NABRE with other Mass Texts How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of…
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Been watching too much Pacino
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 Luke 10:21-24 RSVA, Douay, or NABRE with other Mass texts. For the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea. Quia repleta est terra scientia Domini, sicut aquae maris operientes.Isaiah 11:9 As I was comparing different Bible translations I noticed that the Douay and…
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Wait, I AM worthy…
Photo Source Today’s readings: Isaiah 4:2-6 Matthew 8:5-11 In RSVA, Douay, or NABRE with other Mass texts. “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word…”Matthew 8:8 In Advent, we are waiting for the coming of Christ, who comes to us, if we will but receive him, every…
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Your I is on the Spero
Today’s Readings: Isaiah 2:1-5 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:37-44 RSVA or NABRE with other Mass propers. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples. Isaiah 3b-4a The “Act of Hope”, said as art of personal (non-liturgical) Morning…
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