Night Prayers for Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

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

Evening Meditations for the Third Saturday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Ah, my most loving Lord, Thou art worthy of an infinite love; Thou hast suffered so much in order that I may love Thee. Oh, never permit me, instead of loving Thee, to offend or displease Thee more!

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Saturday Lent III

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

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Fourth Saturday in Lent

The Liturgy now becomes permeated with the thought of Baptism. After hearing of the water gushing from the rock in the desert, we now read in the Gospel (St. John 4: 5-42) of the living water which Our Lord promised to the Samaritan woman. This second scriptural scene was also familiar to the faithful as a type of the sacrament of Baptism, and we see it, represented as early as the second century in the cemetery of Prutextatus.

Station Saturday Lent III: Statio ad St Susannam

Grant, we pray Thee, Almighty God,that Thy servants, who afflict their bodies by fasting,may also abstain from sin and following

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Spiritual Reading for the Third Saturday in Lent

St. Augustine makes frequent and honourable mention of these Saints in his Works, and was wont to hold them up to the people as examples of fidelity to Jesus Christ.

Morning Meditations for the Third Saturday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Sacred Heart of Jesus loves us infinitely more than we love ourselves. Jesus has loved us even to excess. He has loved us more than His own honour, more than His repose, more than His very life. And is not this an excess of love sufficient to stupefy with astonishment the Angels of Paradise!

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

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