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September 2025

September 26, 2025

Michaelmas, Part II: The Angelic Gospel

Go here for Part I. Foliage and fruit of the sycamore-fig, a type of fig...

September 25, 2025

Michaelmas, Part I: The Wars of Saint Michael

The Prince of Thy People Instead of the upcoming Sunday, I decided to translate the...

September 19, 2025

Gods in Conflict

We Can Serve Both God and Mammon, Right? No. The Worship of Mammon (1909), by...

September 13, 2025

Go Forth the Banners of the King

Vexilla Regis prodeunt; fulget Crucis mysterium, quo carne carnis Conditor suspensus est patibulo. Go forth...

September 06, 2025

Good News! Give Up Everything You Own

Blessed Are the Middle Class in Spirit Ah, poverty—everyone's favorite Christian value. It all but...

August 2025

August 27, 2025

God Expects You to Dine

Sabbath Dinner A loaf of challah with sesame seeds, part of the standard fare for...

August 21, 2025

Why Won’t Jesus Give Us a Straight Answer?

I Tell You a Mystery Our Gospel for 24 August, the Tenth Sunday after Trinity...

August 18, 2025

The Visitation, Part II

Go here for Part I. Also, you'll notice that the textual footnotes seem to go...

August 15, 2025

The Visitation, Part I

The Gospel of the Visitation Ivory panel carved in 12th-c. Germany, showing the Tree of...

August 12, 2025

Lamplight

A Few Words on Luke's Outline This past Sunday's Gospel came from Luke 12. This...

August 02, 2025

A Parable for Our Times

The Parable of the Rich Man and His Barns From a translator's point of view,...

July 2025

July 29, 2025

Thou Shalt Nag the Lord Thy God

Luke 11 Bethany today, located in the West Bank, adjacent to Jerusalem. Photo by Tomer...

July 25, 2025

Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part IV

This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text...

July 22, 2025

Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part III

This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text...

July 19, 2025

Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part II

This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text...

July 15, 2025

The Parable of the Good Schismatic Heretic

He Did Not Have to Go Through Samaria Note: This post does not continue from...

July 12, 2025

Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part I

This post is part of a series. ⇒ Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic...

July 04, 2025

St. Paul’s Gotta Lot of Problems With You People,

The Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul This past Sunday, we celebrated the martyrdoms of...

June 2025

June 22, 2025

There Is, Very Rarely, Such a Thing as Free Lunch

Well, at Least Once, Anyway I thought I had translated two other Gospels' accounts of...

June 17, 2025

A Divine Haunting

Trinitytide This is the longest single season in the Anglican Use liturgical year.1 In terms...

June 12, 2025

A Book of Prisms, Chapter Three

Resuming from Chapters One and Two. Revelation 21:9-10 There came unto me one of the...

June 07, 2025

A Book of Prisms, Chapter Two

Resuming from Chapter One. Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken...

June 04, 2025

A Book of Prisms, Chapter One

"Thirty Days, Thirty Verses" As we know, June is LGBTQ Pride Month; and thereby hangs...

May 2025

May 28, 2025

Catholics Must Be Antiracist—Acts 15 Tells Us Why (Pt. 2)

So, picking up from last time: Acts 15:1-2, 3-21, 22-29, RSV-CE But some men came...

May 27, 2025

Catholics Must Be Antiracist—Acts 15 Tells Us Why (Pt. 1)

The Synod of Jerusalem Map of Jerusalem (1472) by Pietro del Massaio and Hugo Comminelli....

May 13, 2025

Babel Unraveling

Another Lengthy One This one is long not because it's multiple lessons together, but because...

May 05, 2025

The Acts of the Holy Ghost

In Hoc Paschali Gaudio1 The Sunday Gospel readings throughout Easter come mainly from the Gospel...

April 2025

April 26, 2025

The Winged Ox Full of Eyes

The Gospel According to St. Luke: A Book Report Last time, we discussed the scholarly...

April 18, 2025

The Gospel According to Paul?

Or: A Belated Introduction to Luke I've at last gotten a bit of breathing room,...

April 08, 2025

Are We Missing Part of the Gospel of Luke?

ARE WE? No. Here's why the question comes up. Although we're in Year C, which...