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.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Friday

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Friday

The Station, at Rome, is in the church of St. Stephen on Monte Celio. This church of the great proto-martyr was chosen as the place where the faithful were to assemble on the Friday of Passion week. Until Maundy Thursday, in masses of the season, the Psalm Judica me Psalm 42 is omitted as well as the Gloria Patri after the Introit and the Lavabo.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Thursday

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Thursday

The Collecta for this day is at Sta. Maria “in Via Lata.” Under the high altar of Sta. Maria is preserved with all veneration the body of St. Agapitus, the famous martyr of Praeneste (Palestrina), together with some relics of St. Cyriacus, the martyr of the Via Ostiensis.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Passion Wednesday

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Passion Wednesday

The Collecta for this day is at the church built by Pope Marcus, where the station was held on Monday after the third Sunday in Lent. Station was at St. Marcellus. The title of Marcellus stands on the Via Lata, on the site once occupied by the house of a matron named Lucina.

Morning Prayers for the Sixth 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: Passion Tuesday

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

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