Month: February 2024

26.ii.23 Quadragesima I / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for the First Saturday in Lent

The human soul is a garden in which useless and noxious herbs constantly spring up: we must, therefore, by the practice of holy mortification, continually hold the mattock in our hands to root them up and banish them from our hearts; otherwise our souls will become a wild, uncultivated waste, covered with briars and thorns. Conquer yourself! was an expression always on the lips of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and the text of his familiar discourses to his Religious

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

Morning Prayers for the First Saturday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church… 

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Morning Meditations for the First Saturday 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?

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Night Prayers for Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

During the season of Lent, the Christian, on preparing for sleep, will unite himself with the Church… 

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / 26.ii.23 Quadragesima I / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

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)…

27.ii.22 Quinquagesima / ✠Challoner / Devotional / Features / Lent / Old Roman TV / Today on ORtv

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the Ember Friday in Lent

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

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / 26.ii.23 Quadragesima I / Culture / Culture War / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Feasts / Features / History / Holy Mass / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Old Roman TV / Saints / Today on ORtv

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.

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / Devotional / Features / Lent / Liturgy / Stational Churches

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

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20.xi.22 Last Sunday Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

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.

06.iii.22 Quadragesima I / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

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…