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Gabriel Blanchard is a Catholic convert, gay author, radical leftist, unprofessional linguist, and Japanese food snob. He grew up as an evangelical Navy brat and got a degree in Classics from the University of Maryland. Follow his articles on his faith and beliefs in gnosticism.
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2d ago
God the Vintner North American grapes (vitis labrusca) of the Concord variety. Vineyards and wine are common motifs in Scripture. This is natural; along with wheat and olives, grapes are one of the most important crops throughout the Mediterranean. Wine was extremely important in antiquity, and drunk from pretty young ages by our standards, because ..read more
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2d ago
The GOATS (Gospel Of this pAsT Sunday) Moving right along, here are the translation and notes for this past Sunday’s Gospel. The Fourth Sunday of Easter is informally named Good Shepherd Sunday in honor of this text. Crook of the eleventh-century Clonmacnoise Crozier, in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Photo by Wikimedia user ..read more
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1w ago
No Rest for the Wicked I hope other people find the fact that I fell behind on posts again immediately after I caught up funny, because I do. (My official job hit me like a ton of bricks last week.) Sisyphus, Titian, 1549. Anyway, in hopes of catching up a second time, I’m going to ..read more
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3w ago
Of Whether the Body of Christ Hath a Butt As discussed before, during Year B, the Gospel of John is slightly more often selected for Sunday reading due to Mark’s brevity. Our topical character for the Easter II Gospel reading is St. Thomas—no, not the Cherubic Doctor1; I am sorry, Thomists, but he’s not in ..read more
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1M ago
Apologia Pro Blog Post Sua As trying to annotate the long Gospel passage for Palm Sunday is far too intimidating for me, I regard myself as being now caught up to the Lectionary. Hooray! In previous years, I’ve offered meditations for each of the days of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday inclusive ..read more
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“Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child” Ag Críost an síol, ag Críost an fómhar, in iothlainn Dé go dtugtar sinn. Ag Críost an mhuir, ag Críost an t-iasc, i líonta Dé go gcastar sinn. Ó fhás go h-aois, is ó aois go bás, do dhá láimh, a Chríost, anall tharainn. Ó bhás go críoch, ni críoch ..read more
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I’m Sorry, Christ the What? The snake is not always an evil creature in Scripture. True, it is associated—as a symbol; snakes are God’s creatures, they are not literally demoniac—with what most Christians believe was an appearance of Satan in Genesis. At the other end of the Bible, Revelation speaks of Satan as “a great ..read more
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1M ago
John? Mark? John Mark? Mark is by far the shortest of the canonical Gospels, and so, to suit the fifty-odd Sundays of the lectionary, it requires a bit of in-fill accordingly. The third, fourth, and fifth Sundays of Lent all feature readings from John in Year B (respectively: 2.13-25, the cleansing of the Temple; 3.14-21 ..read more
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1M ago
Quadragesima: Linguistic Tidbits Quadragesima, the Latin for “fortieth,” is where many other languages get their words for the season we call “Lent,” such as the Spanish Cuaresma or the French Carême; the Greek Sarakosti [Σαρακοστή] (though coming of course from Greek rather than Latin roots) has the same meaning. Several cultures borrowed and adapted the ..read more
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Lent and the Transfiguration As the first Sunday of Lent is devoted to the temptation in the wilderness, so the second traditionally includes an account of the Transfiguration—Matthew in Year A, Mark in Year B (e.g. 2024), and Luke in Year C. Other than Jesus forbidding the “inner circle” to discuss what had happened until ..read more