Night Prayers for Quinquagesima Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Septuagesima, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Day: February 11, 2024
Evening Meditations for Quinquagesima Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Well did St. Francis de Sales say, in speaking of Holy Communion: “In no action does our Saviour show Himself more loving or more tender than in this one, in which, as it were, He annihilates Himself and reduces Himself into food in order to penetrate our souls, and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful ones.”
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Quinquagesima Sunday
Quinquagesima is the name used in the Western Church for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It was also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesimae, Estomihi, or Shrove Sunday…
Quinquagesima Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
The passage of the Gospel selected by the Church, is that wherein our Saviour foretells to his Apostles the Sufferings he was to undergo in Jerusalem. This solemn announcement prepares us for Passiontide. We ought to receive it with feeling and grateful hearts, and make it an additional motive for imitating the devoted Abraham, and giving our whole selves to our God…
Morning Meditations for Quinquagesima Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Angelic Doctor calls the Most Blessed Sacrament “a Sacrament of love, a token of the greatest love that a God could give us.”
Morning Prayers for Quinquagesima Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Gesima, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…