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May 2024

May 18, 2024
Continuing from this introductory material. John 7:37-39 and 20:19-23, RSV-CE On the last day of...
May 17, 2024
Set Your Mind on Things Above Belarusian ikon of Pentecost, c. 1500. Photo by Wikimedia...
May 10, 2024
I decided to do something a little unusual for this post, picking up the epistle...
May 06, 2024
The Second Love This passage is kind of an odd one. As C. S. Lewis...

April 2024

April 27, 2024
God the Vintner North American grapes (vitis labrusca) of the Concord variety. Vineyards and wine...
April 25, 2024
The GOATS (Gospel Of this pAsT Sunday) Moving right along, here are the translation and...
April 23, 2024
No Rest for the Wicked I hope other people find the fact that I fell...
April 08, 2024
Of Whether the Body of Christ Hath a Butt As discussed before, during Year B,...
April 01, 2024
This Easter, I Gave You My Post This picks up from the post I published...

March 2024

March 30, 2024
A Truncation Our Gospel for the Vigil tonight is to be Mark 16.1-7, which describes...
March 26, 2024
Apologia Pro Blog Post Sua As trying to annotate the long Gospel passage for Palm...
March 24, 2024
"Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child" Ag Críost an síol, ag Críost an fómhar, in iothlainn...
March 19, 2024
I'm Sorry, Christ the What? The snake is not always an evil creature in Scripture....
March 16, 2024
John? Mark? John Mark? Mark is by far the shortest of the canonical Gospels, and...
March 13, 2024
Quadragesima: Linguistic Tidbits Quadragesima, the Latin for "fortieth," is where many other languages get their...
March 10, 2024
Lent and the Transfiguration As the first Sunday of Lent is devoted to the temptation...
March 04, 2024
A Law in Review To put the Gospel from Shrove Sunday (11 Feb. this year)...

February 2024

February 18, 2024
Sexagesima and Quinquagesima These are the names of the second and third Sundays in Shrovetide,...
February 09, 2024
Mark Is a Land Contrasts Finally getting this out, a mere sixteen days after Mark...
February 03, 2024
Why "Groundhog Day" Is Secretly a Catholic Film Okay, I'm not really going to do...

January 2024

January 29, 2024
The Gospel for the What Now? This post continues the topic from my last, i.e....
January 26, 2024
The First Gospel A statue of St. Mark the Evangelist, surmounting his basilica in Venice....
January 14, 2024
When Were We? This question is relevant to two things: the liturgical date, i.e. the...
January 07, 2024
The Pretext I'm once again offering a translation of the epistle instead of the gospel...

December 2023

December 25, 2023
NOTE: As of 28 December 2023, this post has been lightly edited throughout; contrary to...
December 17, 2023
John 1.6-8, 19-28 (RSV-CE) There was a man sent1 from God, whose name was John....
December 14, 2023
(Those who read Roman numerals easily may have spotted that the Arabic and Roman numerals...
December 06, 2023
(I'm so sorry for this title, it's absolutely awful and as soon as I thought...

November 2023

November 30, 2023
There's Something About Andy 2024 is upon us, and I don't mean five weeks from...
November 26, 2023
Note on the Scripture Reviewing my first post of this type, I decided it was...
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