“He doesn’t realize it, but were it not for my constant vigilance, he would be attacked by all sorts of flying creatures, not to mention the creepy, crawling things”.

«Querían recogerlo a bordo, pero la barca tocó tierra en seguida, en el sitio adonde iban.»

Aparentemente, el Señor quiere que sepamos que el propósito de la barca es el destino; por eso no permitirá que se vuelque.

“They wanted to take him into the boat, but the boat immediately arrived at the shore to which they were heading.”

Apparently, the Lord would have us know that the boat’s purpose is the destination; that’s why he will not let it capsize.

Crucem sanctam súbiit,
qui inférnum confrégit;
accínctus est poténtia,
surréxit die tértia, allelúia.

Antiphon for the Magnificat this evening,
I have no idea where it is from.

But it reads like a rhyme that could have been taught to children in a Seventh Century household.

“Jesús subió al monte y se sentó allí con sus discípulos etc”.

Es un escenario magistral, semejante a Mt 5,1: “Jesús subió a la montaña, se sentó, y sus discípulos se acercaron a él”

El Señor nos va a enseñar cosas esenciales sobre el Reino a través de multiplicar los panes.

“Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples”

It is a magisterial setting, similar to Mt 5:1: “He went up the mountain, sat down, and his disciples came to him”

The Lord is going to teach us things basic to the Kingdom through multiplying the loaves.

“El Padre ama a su Hijo y todo lo ha puesto en sus manos”.

La herencia del Hijo eternamente engendrado nos alcanza porque Él se hizo Hijo del Hombre, lleno de gracia y verdad.
Al compartir nuestra humanidad, comparte su propia plenitud con quienes se incorporan a Él.

“The Father loves the Son and has given everything over to him.”

The inheritance of the eternally begotten Son reaches us because He became the Son of Man, full of grace and truth.
Sharing our humanity, He shares his own proper fullness with those incorporated into him.

I learned a new word today. How did I not run across it before?

apotropaic

“… with a heavy, iron knocker in the shape of some horned demon with a ring in its jaws and a certain apotropaic quality, like a gargoyle, only less hospitable.”

Leo the Great:

Etiam in ómnibus sanctis suis unus idémque sit Christus; et sicut a membris caput, ita a cápite membra dívidi non possint.

In all his saints it is One and the same Christ;
the head cannot be separated from the members, nor the members from the head.

“Habiendo venido la luz al mundo, los hombres prefirieron las tinieblas a la luz..”

Necesitamos un rayo del cielo que nos cegue por un tiempo, hasta que podamos ver la luz una vez que se restaure la vista. Ese relámpago es el misterio pascual. Y así le sucedió a San Pablo.

“But people preferred darkness to light,..”

We need a bolt of lightning from heaven to blind us for a time, until we can see the light once our sight is restored. That lightning is the Paschal mystery. And so it happened to Saint Paul.

Confirmation, Holy Family, EdinburgTX
Christ Risen showed his hands & side because the sign of his life given for us is the sign by which he is recognized by his disciples; in this sense the wounds are intimately connected to the Eucharistic sign of the breaking of the Bread.

“El viento sopla donde quiere y oyes su ruido,..Así pasa con quien ha nacido del Espíritu”.

El Espíritu se conoce por sus efectos en quienes lo reciben, y así el Espíritu da testimonio de Jesús; y Jesús da testimonio del Espíritu: “hablamos de lo que sabemos y damos testimonio”.

“The wind blows where it wills,.. so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

The Spirit is known by his effects in those who receive him, and thus the Spirit bears witness to Jesus; and Jesus witnesses to the Spirit: “we speak of what we know and we testify.”

Deus, qui Verbum tuum in útero Vírginis Maríæ
veritátem carnis humánæ suscípere voluísti,
concéde, quǽsumus,
ut, qui Redemptórem nostrum
Deum et hóminem confitémur,
ipsíus étiam divínæ natúræ mereámur esse consórtes.
Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.

La Iglesia traslada este día
al puerto más cercano lo suficientemente pobre como para llevar el anuncio previo de las Fiestas Pascuales,
ese día, ya sabes, para el cual se hizo la primavera,
cuando Dios en María se unió a nuestra carne, preparándonos para el Octavo Día.

The Church transfers this day
to the nearest port poor enough to take the Pascal Feast’s prior announcing;
that day, you know, for which spring was made,
when God in Mary to flesh united himself, preparing, she does, for our Eighth Day, by her word to Word: Be it done as you say.

Outdoor Mass, Divine Mercy Parish, Brownsville.

“que comprendan mejor que bautismo nos ha purificado,
qué Espíritu nos ha hecho renacer
y qué sangre nos ha redimido”.

“in what font we have been washed, by whose Spirit we have been reborn, by whose Blood we have been redeemed.”

Divine Mercy Sunday, Cathedral.
The children’s choir of St Mary’s School sang for the Mass.

Sobre el agua, el Espíritu y la sangre que dan testimonio en el Evangelio de hoy.

On the water, the Spirit and the blood that bear witness in today’s Gospel.
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