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2025-06-17T04:36:25-04:00

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A Divine Haunting

Last updated on: June 17, 2025 at 4:36 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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Trinitytide This is the longest single season in the Anglican Use liturgical year.1 In terms of the lectionary, it corresponds to most of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo calendar, but Trinitytide doesn’t kick in until after Pentecost—the chunk of Ordinary Time between Christmas and Lent equates with Epiphanytide in the Ordinariate’s calendar. I got into this a little bit early this year in my series on sacred time; I there identified Trinitytide as one of the five principal seasons... Read more

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2025-06-12T03:29:32-04:00

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A Book of Prisms, Chapter Three

Last updated on: June 12, 2025 at 3:29 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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Resuming from Chapters One and Two. Revelation 21:9-10 There came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, “Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. At first blush, this might seem like... Read more

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2025-06-07T16:58:37-04:00

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A Book of Prisms, Chapter Two

Last updated on: June 7, 2025 at 4:58 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Resuming from Chapter One. Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.” I feel this verse highlights a spiritual issue that seems commonplace in the US at least. It may be common in a lot of places with a... Read more

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2025-06-07T17:00:43-04:00

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A Book of Prisms, Chapter One

Last updated on: June 7, 2025 at 5:00 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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“Thirty Days, Thirty Verses” As we know, June is LGBTQ Pride Month; and thereby hangs a tale, and as usual, it’s the worst. For the last few years, I have been much annoyed by the attempt among some right-wing Catholics to turn June’s dedication to the Sacred Heart into an expression of homophobia. These are not their words; they’ve generally called it “reclaiming June for the Sacred Heart,” who needs our assistance apparently (doesn’t he always). It turns out God... Read more

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2025-10-23T14:25:13-04:00

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

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 2:25 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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So, picking up from last time: Acts 15:1-2, 3-21, 22-29, RSV-CE But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way... Read more

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2025-10-23T14:16:36-04:00

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

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 2:16 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Synod of Jerusalem Map of Jerusalem (1472) by Pietro del Massaio and Hugo Comminelli. Our text here is the lesson from the Sixth Sunday in Easter, the Sunday before Ascension. It’s from Acts 15, and recounts the Church’s first-ever synod, or council, which is thought to have been held around the year 50. The First Council of Nicæa, the source of the Creed,1 took place two hundred and seventy-five years after this; to the Nicene bishops, the Synod of... Read more

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2025-05-13T20:20:36-04:00

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Babel Unraveling

Last updated on: May 13, 2025 at 8:20 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Another Lengthy One This one is long not because it’s multiple lessons together, but because the lesson we have cut St. Paul’s … whole sermon. Which, I get it, it’s long, and we do get a lot of readings from the Pauline epistles all year—but it kinda bums me out, because St. Paul doing a homily sounds rather different from St. Paul writing a letter. The next will probably be lengthy too, for similar reasons. As before, I’m aiming for... Read more

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2025-05-13T18:32:36-04:00

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The Acts of the Holy Ghost

Last updated on: May 13, 2025 at 6:32 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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In Hoc Paschali Gaudio1 The Sunday Gospel readings throughout Easter come mainly from the Gospel of John, and I translated the majority of them last year. I don’t flatter myself I exhausted their meaning; but, especially since it’s Year C,2 I want to spend this year rendering the Sunday lessons (more on that word in a moment). If you want to read the posts I wrote about the Gospels (mostly) during Eastertide last year, here they are: Gospel for Easter... Read more

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2025-04-26T11:18:23-04:00

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The Winged Ox Full of Eyes

Last updated on: April 26, 2025 at 11:18 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Gospel According to St. Luke: A Book Report Last time, we discussed the scholarly background of Luke, and why I personally find the academic consensus significantly less convincing than the traditional view. Yet I’m sure that the whole time you were waiting anxiously, wanting to interrupt me (save that modesty forbids) to insist, “Yes, but never mind all that! What are Luke’s THEMES?” Don’t worry, I got you. To begin with, Luke is the third and last of the... Read more

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2025-04-18T05:35:28-04:00

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The Gospel According to Paul?

Last updated on: April 18, 2025 at 5:35 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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Or: A Belated Introduction to Luke I’ve at last gotten a bit of breathing room, and can return to a long-postponed duty: introducing what Luke’s deal even is! Here goes. The Tradition of Saint Luke A portrait of St. Luke in the St. Augustine Gospels, a 6th-c. evangeliary now housed in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University —one of the oldest extant European books. (Note: Here, as in a few other places, I’m using “tradition” in the small-t sense: ideas that... Read more

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