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2025-11-21T23:48:20-04:00

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His Throne

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 11:48 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Crown of Thorns Detail from a 19th-c. reliquary for the putative Crown of Thorns preserved at Notre-Dame, Paris. After the metaphysical grandeur of this solemnity’s Epistle, festooned with majestic titles like The In-All-Things-Preëminent, The Beginning, and The Firstborn of the Dead, we turn to the Gospel—taken, in this case, from Luke. And here we see, not the man haloed by the Shekinah from the peak of Mount Tabor, nor the wonderworker, nor even the rabbi handily scoring off other rabbis... Read more

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2025-11-21T23:49:48-04:00

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The Cosmic Monarch

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 11:49 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Last Solemnity of the Year The final Sunday of the liturgical year, coming up on the 23rd, is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. In Latin, it is called Sollemnitās Dominī Nostrī Jēsū Christī Ūniversōrum Rēgis, which has got an excellent ring to it. (The new liturgical year, MMXXVI [2026], will begin at sunset on 29th November, civil year 2025.) Central panels of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), by either Jan or Hubert van Eyck;... Read more

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2025-11-13T20:24:00-04:00

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The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ

Last updated on: November 13, 2025 at 8:24 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Mount Olivet The title I’ve chosen for this one is a little ironic. See, this post is about the Olivet Discourse, an episode common to all three Synoptics. The “classical” form, the one people usually think of, is Matthew’s, found in chapter 24; he appends a selection of parables about the Last Day (which may have originally been told at other times but are linked thematically to the Olivet Discourse), and these make up chapter 25. Parallel forms of the... Read more

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2025-11-14T18:10:34-04:00

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And He Shall Purify

Last updated on: November 14, 2025 at 6:10 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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A Foreword Briefly Directing the Gentle Reader Elsewhither I had trouble thinking of a title for this post, and eventually decided that the best choice was to steal one from G. F. Handel. It’s impossible to choose out of such a masterpiece, but if I did have to, I might select the chorus of this title as my favorite part of the Messiah (the text is from Malachi 3:3). If I’m not mistaken, this is the version I grew up... Read more

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2025-11-01T18:13:35-04:00

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… And Thousands of Thousands

Last updated on: November 1, 2025 at 6:13 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This post contains the Epistle and Gospel for Hallowmas; go here for intro material and the Lesson. Preliminary Housekeeping After I had already finished my translation and commentary on these two texts, I was doing some unrelated backtracking through my own catalogue, and discovered I’d already translated them both before: appropriately enough, for Hallowmas last year. (It was sort of reassuring to see that my translations this year were nearly identical, so apparently I’m not just careening wildly from one... Read more

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2025-11-01T18:49:46-04:00

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Myriads of Myriads …

Last updated on: November 1, 2025 at 6:49 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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For All the Saints First of all, I’d like to thank my most recent Patreon supporter, Michael Magee, and my other patrons! Mr. Magee joined this month with an extremely generous donation, and I’m still between jobs at the moment, so that was really encouraging. Also, quick note. This post is another one with some substantial chunks that, while interesting, aren’t essential to understanding the text I’m commenting on from Revelation chapter 7. To save some space, I’ve put these... Read more

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2025-10-23T14:57:47-04:00

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The Long Nose of God

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 2:57 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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I Assume He Means Cato the Younger This is the post that should have gone up for the 19th! But here it is now, and this coming Sunday’s proper post can be found here. The parable of the widow and the unjust judge calls for a little commentary on those figures. We may begin with the latter. An explanation of unjust judges is, in itself, no doubt superfluous; however, we don’t always appreciate what a high standard of conduct—even five... Read more

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2025-10-19T21:39:10-04:00

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High Fidelity

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 9:39 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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(No, Not the John Cusack Film) EDIT: Well, gentle readers, I have egg on my face: these readings are for next week, the 26th, not the 19th, this Sunday! Oh well—it’s too late to do them the right way around now, and I’d have been doing these passages (and this rant about the scholarship on the Paulines) in any case, so here we are. As our Gospel passage this week is another short one, I decided to translate the Epistle... Read more

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2025-10-07T13:36:36-04:00

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The Cleansing of the Ten Lepers

Last updated on: October 7, 2025 at 1:36 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Scratch ‘n’ Sniff I’ve touched on the topic of leprosy before, back when I was doing the Gospel of Mark. (Please be aware, there are one or two inaccuracies in that post that I need to go back and correct.) 14th-c. illumination of two lepers being refused entry to a town. Today, the word leprosy indicates what is also called Hansen’s disease (after Gerhard Hansen, who in 1873 discovered Mycobacterium lepræ, one of two microörganisms which can cause the disease—the... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:13:06-04:00

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If You Will, You Can Become All Flame

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:13 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Transfiguration The Thebaid (ca. 1460), by Paolo Uccello. This was a term for Upper (i.e., southern) Egypt, associated historically and allegorically with monasticism.1 There is a famous story in the Apophthegmata,2 a collection of maxims and conversations from the Desert Fathers, the early generations of Egyptian monasticism, often published under the more complicated title Sayings of the Desert Fathers. In Benedicta Ward’s translation, it reads as follows (note that abba, “father,” was a common title and form of address not... Read more

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