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: March 25, 2024
Evening Meditations for Holy Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Holy Monday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Holy Monday: “Judas or Mary…?” – YouTube HE ✠Jerome Lloyd
Holy Monday: “Judas or Mary…?” – YouTube HE ✠Jerome Lloyd
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Holy Monday
The choice of the Gospel is not without connection with that of the Stational church for St. Praexedes and St. Pudentiana put their house at the disposal of Pope St. Pius I, like Mary and Martha received Jesus into theirs. [Until Holy Thursday the Gloria Patri is omitted].
Station Holy Monday: Statio ad St Praxedem
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Holy Monday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
This morning, also, Jesus goes with his Disciples to Jerusalem. He is fasting, for the Gospel tells us, that he was hungry [St Matth. xxi. 18]. He approaches a fig-tree, which is by the way-side; but finds nothing on it, save leaves only. Jesus, wishing to give us an instruction, curses the fig-tree, which immediately withers away. He would hereby teach us what they are to expect, who have nothing but good desires, and never produce in themselves the fruit of a real conversion. Nor is the allusion to Jerusalem less evident. This City is zealous for the exterior of Divine Worship; but her heart is hard and obstinate, and she is plotting, at this very hour, the death of the Son of God…
Spiritual Reading for Holy Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The fourth means to attain perfect love is to make frequent acts of love. As fire is kept alive by fuel, so love is nourished by acts….
Morning Meditations for Holy Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
If we do not purify and strip the heart of everything earthly, the love of God cannot enter in and possess it all. Detach thy heart from all created things, says St. Teresa, and seek God, and thou shalt find Him.
Morning Prayers for Holy Monday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…