Night Prayers for Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on preparing for sleep, will unite himself with the Church…
Day: February 23, 2024
Evening Meditations for the First Friday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
So great was the desire of Jesus to suffer for us that in the night preceding His death, He not only went of His own will into the Garden, where He knew that the Jews would come and take Him, but knowing that Judas the traitor was already near at hand with the company of soldiers, He said to His disciples, Arise, let us go; behold he that will betray me is at hand (Mark xiv. 42)…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the Ember Friday in Lent
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Ember Friday in Lent
The Liturgy insists on the necessity of a reformation of life; when baptism was administered to adults, it was expected that the sacrament should effect in the catechumen a complete change of heart. The Pool of Bethsaida, of which the Gospel (John 5, 1-15) speaks, symbolizes the baptismal font of the Catechumens, and is, to all the faithful, a figure of the adorable Heart of Jesus, through Whose wounded side they pass into an ocean of love and compassion.
Station Ember Friday Lent I: Statio ad S. Laurentii
Be merciful to Thy people Lord,and, in Thy pity,comfort with kind helpthose whom Thou makestloyal to Thee:through Our Lord… Today’s
Spiritual Reading for the First Friday in Lent
There are two kinds of self-love: the one good, the other hurtful. The former is that which makes us seek eternal life–the end of our creation; the latter inclines us to pursue earthly goods, and to prefer them to our everlasting welfare, and to the holy will of God.
Morning Prayers for the Ember Friday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Morning Meditations for the First Friday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
God has not only waited for you, but has often called you and invited you to receive pardon. What is there that I ought to do more for my vineyard? If God stood in need of you, or if you had done Him some great favour, could He show you greater mercy? Are you waiting for God to send you to hell?