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Category: 03.iv.22 Passiontide
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Friday
Today we learn of the prophecy of the High Priest, Caiaphas and the final determination of the Sanhedrin (Temple Council) to deliberately seek the end of Our Lord. Unwittingly, Caiphas elucidates the significance of the sacrifice of the Messiah on behalf of the people.
Spiritual Reading for Passion Friday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Blessed Virgin already understood the Sacred Scriptures; she well knew that the time foretold by the Prophets for the coming of the Messias had arrived; she knew that the Seventy Weeks of Daniel were completed, and that the sceptre of Juda had passed into the hands of Herod, a stranger, according to the prophecy of Jacob; she also knew that the Mother of the Messiah was to be a Virgin.
Morning Prayers for Passion Friday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Morning Meditations for Passion Friday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Some people think they are beloved of God when all their affairs go prosperously with them and they have no troubles. But St. James says: Blessed is the man that suffereth temptation; for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him. The faithfulness of soldiers is tried, not in repose, but in battle.
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Thursday
The Lenten fast is now drawing to its close, wherefore we pray in the Collect that the abstinence which we have practiced, being sanctified by the mortification of all our evil passions, may serve to enlighten the hearts of the faithful. God himself has placed this desire in our hearts, so we trust that he will graciously accept it and will grant it abundant fruit.
Morning Prayers for Passion Thursday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Evening Meditations for Passion Wednesday ~ 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…
The Franco Tapes: Part 1- A Pen in the Hand of the Almighty – YouTube
There are few people who can truly claim to have had a “front-row seat” while history was being written. One