Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: March 31st On Our Lord’s being brought before Annas and Caiaphas
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 20.iii.22 Quadragesima III
Morning Prayers for the Fourth Wednesday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: March 26th On the sufferings of Our Saviour, before His Passion
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Evening Meditations for the Third Friday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Presently we will speak of the other Pilate, seeing the Redeemer reduced to that condition, so moving, as it was, to compassion, thought that the mere sight of Him would have softened the Jews. He therefore led Him forth into the balcony; he raised up the purple garment, and, exhibiting to the people the body of Jesus all covered with wounds and gashes, he said to them, Behold the Man…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: March 25th On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Solemn High Mass – Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 03/25/22 – St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary – YouTube
Solemn High Mass – Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 03/25/22 – St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary – YouTube Solemn
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).
Morning Prayers for the Third Friday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Wednesday III in Lent
Lesson from the Book of Exodus. God on Mount Sinai commanded men to honor their parents and to love their neighbor. The Gospel tells us that the Pharisees added to the Commandments human traditions, which consisted of wholly exterior formalities and to which they attached more importance than they did to the law of Moses. The Church therefore seeks to put us on our guard against the observance of merely exterior practices of worship or fasts, which are not united to acts of charity.