Evening Meditations for Ash Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Isaias had already foretold that our blessed Redeemer would be condemned to death, and as an innocent lamb brought to sacrifice: He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter. (Is. liii. 7)…
Day: February 14, 2024
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On Ash Wednesday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is from a liturgical point of view one of the most important days of the year. In the first place this day opens the liturgical season of Lent, which formerly began with the First Sunday and comprised only thirty-six days. The addition of Wednesday and the three following days brought the number to forty, which is that of Our Lord’s fast in the desert…
Station Ash Wednesday: Statio ad St Sabinam
Grant, O Lord, that Your faithful people may, with true piety, undertake the time-honored custom of fasting and may carry
Morning Meditations for Ash Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
It is most useful for our salvation to say often to ourselves: I must one day die! The Church every year on Ash Wednesday brings this remembrance to the faithful…