Morning Prayers for Spy Wednesday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
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Morning Prayers for Holy Tuesday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Evening Meditations for Holy Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
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 Prayers for Holy Monday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Evening Meditations for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday would be in any case a great and holy day, as it commemorates the last triumph of Our Lord Jesus Christ on earth and opens the Holy Week. On this day, the Church celebrates the triumphant entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem, when the multitude, going before and following after Him, cut off branches from the trees and strewed in His way, shouting: “Hosanna [glory and praise] to the Son of David. Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.” It is in commemoration of this triumph that palms are blessed and borne in solemn procession.
Palm Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
Early in the morning of this day, Jesus sets out for Jerusalem, leaving Mary His Mother, and the two sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, at Bethania. The Mother of sorrows trembles at seeing her Son thus expose Himself to danger, for His enemies are bent upon His destruction; but it is not death, it is triumph, that Jesus is to receive to-day in Jerusalem…
Spiritual Reading for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Spiritual Reading for Palm Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori