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March 2024

March 24, 2024

Lent V | John 12.20-33: Ag Criost an Siol

"Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child" Ag Críost an síol, ag Críost an fómhar, in iothlainn...

March 19, 2024

Lent IV | John 3.14-21: Of Christ the Serpent

I'm Sorry, Christ the What? The snake is not always an evil creature in Scripture....

March 16, 2024

Lent III, 2024: A Detour Through John Begins

John? Mark? John Mark? Mark is by far the shortest of the canonical Gospels, and...

March 13, 2024

Lent I, 2024: Mark 1.12-15, the Temptation

Quadragesima: Linguistic Tidbits Quadragesima, the Latin for "fortieth," is where many other languages get their...

March 10, 2024

Lent II, 2024: Mark 9.2-10, the Transfiguration

Lent and the Transfiguration As the first Sunday of Lent is devoted to the temptation...

March 04, 2024

The Cleansing of the Leper (Mark 1.40-45)

A Law in Review To put the Gospel from Shrove Sunday (11 Feb. this year)...

February 2024

February 18, 2024

Mark: Catching Up to Chapter One

Sexagesima and Quinquagesima These are the names of the second and third Sundays in Shrovetide,...

February 09, 2024

The Gospel for Septuagesima Sunday, 2024

Mark Is a Land Contrasts Finally getting this out, a mere sixteen days after Mark...

February 03, 2024

Keeping the -mas in Candlemas

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 Sunday of the Word of God: Mark 1.14-20

The Gospel for the What Now? This post continues the topic from my last, i.e....

January 26, 2024

An Introduction to the Gospel of Mark

The First Gospel A statue of St. Mark the Evangelist, surmounting his basilica in Venice....

January 14, 2024

The Gospel for the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 2024

When Were We? This question is relevant to two things: the liturgical date, i.e. the...

January 07, 2024

The Epiphany Epistle: Ephesians 3.2-6

The Pretext I'm once again offering a translation of the epistle instead of the gospel...

December 2023

December 25, 2023

The Christmas Epistle: Hebrews 1.1-6

NOTE: As of 28 December 2023, this post has been lightly edited throughout; contrary to...

December 17, 2023

Gaudete Sunday 2024

John 1.6-8, 19-28 (RSV-CE) There was a man sent1 from God, whose name was John....

December 14, 2023

St. John of the Cross, 2023 (MMXXIV)

(Those who read Roman numerals easily may have spotted that the Arabic and Roman numerals...

December 06, 2023

You’re a Sweet One, Bishop Nick

(I'm so sorry for this title, it's absolutely awful and as soon as I thought...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Epistle for the (Second) Feast of St. Andrew, 2023

There's Something About Andy 2024 is upon us, and I don't mean five weeks from...

November 26, 2023

Solemnity of Christ the King, 2023

Note on the Scripture Reviewing my first post of this type, I decided it was...

November 23, 2023

Two Collects, Annotated

A Collect or Prayer for All Conditions of Men O God, the Creator and Preserver...

November 19, 2023

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity: Matthew 25.14-30

Proem In this post, I'm experimenting with taking Mudblood Catholic in a new direction. I've...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

September 2023

September 27, 2023

Toward a Four-Source Hypothesis (That Is Not Trash)

If you missed the setup, it's pretty important, so I advise going back and reading...

September 17, 2023

The Two-Source Hypothesis Is Trash

I Looked, And Behold, a Disk Horse I've been thinking for a while about the...

September 07, 2023

The Cravings of Sinful Man

CONTENT WARNING This post deals with pastoral and other forms of abuse, and contains some...

August 2023

August 08, 2023

Children in the Marketplace

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

Proud and Prejudiced, Part III: A Commination

The Abomination Which Causeth Desolation I'm now concluding my series on Pride month celebrations. It...

July 10, 2023

The Sons of Levi

THIS POST DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. The Image of Gog The...

June 2023

June 28, 2023

Proud and Prejudiced, Part II: I Answer That

This continues my discussion of Pride celebrations from last week. Ye Have Heard That It...