Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 20.iii.22 Quadragesima III
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The mystery of the Incarnation has earned for Blessed Mary her most glorious title, that of “Mother of God” (Collect), in Greek “Theotokos” a name which the Eastern Church always inscribed in letters of gold, like a diadem on the forehead of her images or statues. “Standing on the threshold of divinity” since she gave to the Word of God the flesh to which He was hypostatically united, the Virgin has always been honored by a supereminent worship, that of hyperdulia. “The Son of the Father and the Son of the Virgin naturally become a single and identical son, ” says St. Anselm : hence Mary is queen of the human race and is to be venerated by all (Introit).
Station Spy Wednesday: Statio ad St Mariam Majorem
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Station Holy Tuesday: Statio ad St Priscam
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Station Holy Monday: Statio ad St Praxedem
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Palm Sunday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Station Palm Sunday: Statio ad St Ioannem Laterano
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Saturday
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Saturday
A Stational Church was chosen St John’s before the Latin Gate. Near the place where the Appian Way branches off, forming to the left the Latin Way, it was built on the spot where St John was, by order of Domitian, plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil. St John who with Mary shared the privilege of standing near the Cross, also joined his sacrifice to that of Christ when he gladly accepted martyrdom in the boiling oil.
Station Passion Saturday: Statio ad St Ioannem ante Portam Latinam
Station Tuesday Lent III: Statio ad St Pudentianam