Evening Meditations for Holy Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Evening Meditations for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Holy Monday

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Homily of Mons. Viganò for Palm Sunday : STILUM CURIAE

Israel is your Rex, Davidis et inclyta proles . You are King of Israel, of the noble lineage of David.  In

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Demonstrators in Poland defend late pope’s honor – UCA News

Is Christianity Credible? An Apologetics Review

A Review of Christianity Is CredibleBy Louis-Matie De Blignieres, FSVFTranslated by Thomas Crean, OPArouca Press, 2022 “This book is, unashamedly,

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Proposed changes to Irish constitution to reflect ‘gender equality’ are deeply misguided – Catholic Herald

Holy Monday: “Judas or Mary…?” – YouTube HE ✠Jerome Lloyd

Holy Monday: “Judas or Mary…?” – YouTube HE ✠Jerome Lloyd

Unam Sanctam Catholicam: It Is Not Wrong to Assume Someone is in Heaven

We are all familiar with the modern spectacle of funerals as immediate canonizations rather than occasions for prayer and penitence

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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Holy Monday

The choice of the Gospel is not without connection with that of the Stational church for St. Praexedes and St. Pudentiana put their house at the disposal of Pope St. Pius I, like Mary and Martha received Jesus into theirs.  [Until Holy Thursday the Gloria Patri is omitted].

Holy Monday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

This morning, also, Jesus goes with his Disciples to Jerusalem. He is fasting, for the Gospel tells us, that he was hungry [St Matth. xxi. 18]. He approaches a fig-tree, which is by the way-side; but finds nothing on it, save leaves only. Jesus, wishing to give us an instruction, curses the fig-tree, which immediately withers away. He would hereby teach us what they are to expect, who have nothing but good desires, and never produce in themselves the fruit of a real conversion. Nor is the allusion to Jerusalem less evident. This City is zealous for the exterior of Divine Worship; but her heart is hard and obstinate, and she is plotting, at this very hour, the death of the Son of God…