Month: February 2023
Ex-Cardinal McCarrick asks court to dismiss sex assault case | Crux
Lawyers for former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick filed a motion Monday to dismiss a case charging him with sexually assaulting
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: First Tuesday in Lent
The Epistle: Lent is a time of fast and prayer and good works; Lent is the time when God is near to us and eager to forgive us, if we put aside our evil thoughts and forsake the way of sin. The Gospel: We must cast sin out from our minds and hearts, as Jesus cast out the sellers from the Temple, and receive the teaching of Christ with the simplicity of children of God…
Morning Meditations for the First Tuesday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
God, as the Apostle says, will have all men to be saved. (1 Tim. ii. 4). But God wishes us all to labour for our salvation by adopting the means of overcoming our enemies, and by obeying His voice calling us to repentance…
Morning Prayers for the First Tuesday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Practice during Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
After having spent the three weeks of Septuagesima in meditating upon our spiritual infirmities, and upon the wounds caused in us by sin, – we should be ready to enter upon the penitential seasons…
The Mystery of Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
We may be sure, that a season, so sacred as this of Lent, is rich in mysteries. The Church has made it a time of recollection and penance, in preparation for the greatest of all her Feasts; she would, therefore, bring into it everything that could excite the faith of her children, and encourage them to go through the arduous work of atonement for their sins…
The History of Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
The Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast expresses the number of the day, Forty. But our word Lent signifies the Spring-Fast; for Lenten-Tide, in the ancient English-Saxon language, was the season of Spring. Translator.], is the Church’s preparation for Easter, and was instituted at the very commencement of Christianity…