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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: April 6th Our Lord is crowned with thorns
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: April 3rd On Our Lord’s being led away to Pilate
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Wednesday
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.
Spiritual Reading for Passion Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
O Lord, exclaimed holy Job, what is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? (Job vii. 17). My God, what is man whom Thou hast so highly honoured? What benefit has he ever conferred upon Thee that Thy whole Heart should, as it were, be occupied in seeking his welfare, and in endeavouring to make known to him the affection Thou dost bear him?
Morning Prayers for Passion Wednesday
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Morning Meditations for Passion Wednesday ~ 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.
Evening Meditations for Passion Tuesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The morning being come, they lead Jesus to Pilate, that he may pronounce upon Him the sentence of death, But Pilate is aware that Jesus is innocent, and, therefore he tells the Jews that he can find no reason why he should condemn Him…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: April 5th Barabbas is preferred before Our Lord. He is scourged at the pillar.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: April 3rd On Our Lord’s being led away to Pilate
