Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Friday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Month: March 2024
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Friday
The Station, at Rome, is in the church of St. Stephen on Monte Celio. This church of the great proto-martyr was chosen as the place where the faithful were to assemble on the Friday of Passion week. Until Maundy Thursday, in masses of the season, the Psalm Judica me Psalm 42 is omitted as well as the Gloria Patri after the Introit and the Lavabo.
Station Passion Friday: Statio ad St Stephanum in Caelio Monte
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Spiritual Reading for Passion Friday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Spiritual Reading for Passion Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Morning Meditations for Passion Friday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Morning Meditations for Passion Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Morning Prayers for Passion Friday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
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 Passion Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Then Pilate, therefore, took Jesus, and scourged him. (John xix. 1). O thou unjust judge, thou hast declared Him innocent, and then thou dost condemn Him to so cruel and so ignominious a punishment! Behold, now, my soul, how, after this unjust decree, the executioners seize hold of the Divine Lamb; they take Him to the pretorium, and bind Him with ropes to the pillar.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Thursday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Benedict, Abbot
Known as the “Father of Western Monastic Life,” Saint Benedict is the founder of the Benedictines. Born in 480 into a noble family in the village of Nursia, Italy, he studied in Rome but, fearing he would succumb to the licentious life of his peers, left it all behind in 500 to embrace the monastic life…