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September 2024

September 12, 2024

The Stone That Cried Out, Part I

A Celebrity Exorcist The back of a jubilee casting of the St. Benedict medal. The...

September 03, 2024

Upside-Down Town

An Episode of the Best Show Several years ago, a cartoon show aired on the...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

The Hidden Bread—Part III

This post covers the Gospels for the Twelfth and Thirteenth Sundays after Trinity (a.k.a. the...

August 21, 2024

The Veiling of the Ark, Part III

Here are links for Part I and Part II of the notes on this passage....

August 19, 2024

The Veiling of the Ark, Part II

Part II—of III! Following up from Friday's post—and the first textual note turned out to...

August 16, 2024

The Veiling of the Ark, Part I

(Should I Say It? It's Such a Lame Joke. Yeah, I'm Gonna Say It) This...

August 10, 2024

The Hidden Bread—Part II

This post deals with the Gospel for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (a.k.a. the Eighteenth...

August 06, 2024

The Hidden Bread—Part I

This post deals with the Gospel for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity (a.k.a. the Eighteenth...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

A Nesting Doll of Barley Bread

This post deals with the Gospel for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity (a.k.a. the Seventeenth...

July 26, 2024

Angels of the Veil

This post deals with the epistle and Gospel for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity (a.k.a....

July 12, 2024

Ambassadors (Gospel for 14 July, 2024)

Ambassadors An ikon of the Twelve I've laid things out a little unusually in this...

July 08, 2024

A Thorn in the Flesh (Epistle for 7 July, 2024)

Saint Paul Needs a Prequel Miniseries I wound up with about twice as much "front...

July 02, 2024

Nazareth (Gospel for 7 July, 2024)

A Good Thing Came Thence A mosaic depicting Nazareth in the former Chora Church (now...

July 01, 2024

Daughters (Gospel for 30 June, 2024)

"Skip a Bit, Brother" Brother Maynard (right), accompanied by his brother, Brother Maynard's Brother. Image...

June 2024

June 24, 2024

Trinitytide: The End of the Beginning

Witnesses Not officially, but by informal custom, Trinitytide is divided into five parts. The first...

June 22, 2024

“His First Mate at the Wheel” (Gospel for 23 June, 2024)

A Thimbleful of Fire There's a band out of Philly that I like, mewithoutYou [sic],...

June 19, 2024

Two Marcan Parables (Gospel for 16 June, 2024)

Matter Peculiar to St. Mark Folio from a late fifteenth-century copy of the Gospel of...

June 12, 2024

Returning to Mark (Gospel for 9 June, 2024)

"Before I Was So Strangely Interrupted" Now that the paschal cycle, and even its little...

May 2024

May 26, 2024

Pentecost, Part III (The Third Half)

Go to these links for Part I and Part II. A Caution These three posts...

May 18, 2024

“Twelve Hours”: The Gospels for Pentecost, Part II

Continuing from this introductory material. John 7:37-39 and 20:19-23, RSV-CE On the last day of...

May 17, 2024

“Twelve Hours in the Day”: The Gospels for Pentecost, Part I

Set Your Mind on Things Above Belarusian ikon of Pentecost, c. 1500. Photo by Wikimedia...

May 10, 2024

The Ascension

I decided to do something a little unusual for this post, picking up the epistle...

May 06, 2024

“I Call You Friends” (Gospel for May 5, 2024)

The Second Love This passage is kind of an odd one. As C. S. Lewis...

April 2024

April 27, 2024

Christ the Vine: John 15.1-8 (Gospel for Apr. 28, 2024)

God the Vintner North American grapes (vitis labrusca) of the Concord variety. Vineyards and wine...

April 25, 2024

Sheep (Gospel for Apr. 21, 2024)

The GOATS (Gospel Of this pAsT Sunday) Moving right along, here are the translation and...

April 23, 2024

Fish (Gospel for 14 Apr., 2024)

No Rest for the Wicked I hope other people find the fact that I fell...

April 08, 2024

The Other St. Thomas: John 20.19-31

Of Whether the Body of Christ Hath a Butt As discussed before, during Year B,...

April 01, 2024

Commentary on the Rest of Mark 16.1-8

This Easter, I Gave You My Post This picks up from the post I published...

March 2024

March 30, 2024

Vigil of Easter I (30 Mar. 2024): The Tomb in Mark, Part One

A Truncation Our Gospel for the Vigil tonight is to be Mark 16.1-7, which describes...

March 26, 2024

St. Mark’s Passion

Apologia Pro Blog Post Sua As trying to annotate the long Gospel passage for Palm...