Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: First Thursday in Lent

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

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the Ember Wednesday in Lent

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

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the First Tuesday in Lent

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

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the First Monday in Lent

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

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the First Sunday in Lent

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

Evening Meditations for Saturday after Ash Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Jesus appeared one day on the Cross to Sister Magdalen Orsini, who had been suffering for some time from some great affliction, and animated her to suffer it in peace. The servant of God answered, “But, Lord, Thou didst hang on the Cross for only three hours…

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Saturday after Ash Wednesday

We must struggle by solemn fast and by works of charity against our passions, and “the Lord will give us rest, and will fill our souls with brightness.” The rough sea and the contrary winds are a figure of our passions. In this hard struggle Jesus will come to our help as He did to the Apostles and heal our bodies and our souls by fasting, as He healed all the sick in the land of Genesareth…

Station Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Statio ad St Tryphonem

Give heed to our entreaties, Lord, that we may keep with devout observance this solemn fast, wholesomely ordained for healing the body and

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Morning Meditations for Saturday after Ash Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

he Passion of Jesus, as St. Bernard says, began with His Birth, so did Mary’s Martyrdom endure throughout her whole life. Wherefore well might Mary say: My life is wasted with grief and my years in sighs. My sorrow is continually before me…

Morning Prayers for Saturday after Ash Wednesday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…