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2025-10-06T21:43:17-04:00

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And People Say Jesus Never Laughed …

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 9:43 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Po’ Lazarus Les Pharisiens et les Saducéens Viennent Pour Tenter Jésus [The Pharisees and Sadducees Come to Tempt Jesus] (ca. 1885-1895), by James Tissot.1 Now that both Sunday and Michaelmas have passed, I decided to do the Gospel from this past Sunday after all. It’s another beloved parable unique to Luke, that of the rich man and Lazarus. However, as usual, I’ve given the names their Hebraic forms: instead of Lazarus, Abraham, and Moses, you’ll here see Eleazar, Avraham, and... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:16:19-04:00

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Michaelmas, Part II: The Angelic Gospel

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:16 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Go here for Part I. Foliage and fruit of the sycamore-fig, a type of fig that grows in Africa and the Levant. Photo by Atamari, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (source). John 1:47-51, RSV-CE Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:14:18-04:00

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Michaelmas, Part I: The Wars of Saint Michael

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

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The Prince of Thy People Instead of the upcoming Sunday, I decided to translate the epistle and Gospel for the day after: the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, or Michaelmas (pronounced micklemuss) in the Anglican tradition. As a Gabriel, it’s my name-day. There turned out to be a good deal more material than I had expected, so I made it a two-parter! This is one of several holidays eliminated by (some) Protestant Reformers for reasons I can’t possibly... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:17:02-04:00

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Gods in Conflict

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:17 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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We Can Serve Both God and Mammon, Right? No. The Worship of Mammon (1909), by Evelyn De Morgan. Moving on. Luke 16:1-13, RSV-CE He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward,a and charges were brought to him that this manb was wasting his goods. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:18:59-04:00

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Go Forth the Banners of the King

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:18 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Vexilla Regis prodeunt; fulget Crucis mysterium, quo carne carnis Conditor suspensus est patibulo. Go forth the banners of the King; the secret of the Cross doth shine: the body’s Maker’s Body sing which hung upon that beam divine. Arbor decor’ et fulgida, ornata Regis purpura, electa digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere. O tree bedecked with holy glow, dress’d in the King’s own crimson dye;1 O gallows unto this foreknown, to bear those sacred limbs on high. —Vexilla Regis Prodeunt,... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:20:00-04:00

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Good News! Give Up Everything You Own

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:20 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Blessed Are the Middle Class in Spirit Ah, poverty—everyone’s favorite Christian value. It all but outstrips the glamor of patience, the old crowd-pleaser forgiveness, and the ultimate in sexiness, death to self. St. Luke, probably thanks to his concern for the marginalized (see my two-part introduction to Luke, especially the latter half, for details on that), highlights Jesus’ teaching on poverty more persistently than any other canonical Gospel. If “teaching” is the right word, that is; “insistence” might be better,... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:20:54-04:00

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God Expects You to Dine

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:20 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Sabbath Dinner A loaf of challah with sesame seeds, part of the standard fare for a modern sabbath dinner. Photo by Aviv Hod, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (source). This week’s Gospel passage shows us Jesus as a guest at a dinner being given by a fellow Pharisee. Odd though this would seem to us, these sorts of dinners were not private; at least, not altogether. To take a seat, dine, and contribute to the evening’s conversation—yes, that... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:22:16-04:00

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Why Won’t Jesus Give Us a Straight Answer?

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:22 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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I Tell You a Mystery Our Gospel for 24 August, the Tenth Sunday after Trinity (which equates, this year, with the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time), touches on a difficult topic in theology. It is a topic that has driven, maybe, more intellectual wars among nerdy, overchurched fourteen-year-olds than any other. It is the doctrine of election, or as it is also called, predestination. The Lord’s Prayer (1896), by James Tissot. Some people think that only Reformed Christians, a.k.a. Calvinists,... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:25:21-04:00

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The Visitation, Part II

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:25 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Go here for Part I. Also, you’ll notice that the textual footnotes seem to go directly from a to d; this is because note d actually concerns two words, and becomes fully relevant at the second (by which time two more textual notes have been marked). Luke 1:39-56, RSV-CE La Visitación [“The Visitation”] (1500), by Maestro de Perea. In those days Marya arosed and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:23:46-04:00

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The Visitation, Part I

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:23 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel of the Visitation Ivory panel carved in 12th-c. Germany, showing the Tree of Jesse (Jesus’ lineage). Though proper to the Feast of the Visitation, Luke 1:39-56 is associated with the Assumption as well. It’s possible— Wait, What’s the Visitation? and Why Are We Reading About It? That depends, actually: in addition to being a Marian event/feast, The Visitation is also the title of a Frank Peretti novel, one which really isn’t at all bad. The prose is kinda... Read more

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