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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Easter Sunday Mass Readings
“The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene” by Alexander Ivanov, 1834-1836 Sunday, March 31 Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord – Solemnity Roman Ordinary calendar St. Benjamin Acts of the Apostles 10,34a.37-43. Peter proceeded to speak and said, “You know what has happened … Continue reading
Holy Saturday: The Whole Earth Keeps Silence
Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in … Continue reading
The Three Hours of Darkness
The darkness that covered Israel for three hours was recorded by three of the four Gospel writers. The three evangelists testify that the darkness lasted three hours, and it ‘covered all the land’. The Sun failed Luke says that ‘the Sun … Continue reading
Divine Mercy Novena starts on Good Friday
It is available in abundance to everyone if only we would embrace it. It is an endless and unfathomable gift that flows most profusely on the Sunday after Easter. It is the devotion of the Divine Mercy and it offers … Continue reading
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Receiving the Holy Eucharist: sermon on Maundy Thursday
By a Dominican Friar Whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.” Our Lord, in the cenacle on Maundy Thursday, accomplished two things. First, He brought the ceremonies of the … Continue reading
QUIS EST ISTE REX GLORIÆ?
Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò Spiritual Conferenceon the Second Sunday of Passiontideor Palm Sunday Exsulta satis, filia Sion, jubila filia Jerusalem.Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi. Za 9, 12 The solemn celebrations of Holy Week begin with the triumphal entry of Our … Continue reading
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Saint Dismas – The Good Thief
[Jan Provoost, c 1500, “The Crucifixion”. Northern Renaissance] The crucifixion was the supreme Sacrifice by Christ – suffering on which we focus with particular intensity from the start of Passiontide until the culmination of the death of Our Lord at … Continue reading
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Mass Readings for Palm Sunday
Christ’s entry into Jerusalem by Anthony van Dyck 1617 Sunday, March 24 Passion (Palm) Sunday Roman Ordinary calendar St. Catherine of Sweden Book of Isaiah 50,4-7. The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to speak to … Continue reading
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Polishing Daily Crosses into Heavenly Crowns with Don Dolindo and St Rafqa
Finding Heaven’s Treasure in Earthly Troubles By Elie Dib at Catholic Exchange: When we put in long hours at work, we can take comfort in knowing that our effort will be rewarded, whether through a larger paycheck, the satisfaction of … Continue reading
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Five ways to make Holy Week more holy
As we prepare to enter into the most sacred days of the liturgical year, we have a prime opportunity to make up for any shortcomings that may have been part of our Lent this year. Blessedly, Holy Week offers us … Continue reading
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Fatima, St. Joseph and the Family, 2024
As all who read these pages know, that last visit, October 13, 1917, of Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima contained a series of beautiful visions which represented the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, including one where Saint Joseph … Continue reading
Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Ancient prayer to Saint Joseph This prayer was found in the 50th year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In 1505, it was sent from the pope to Emperor Charles when he was going into battle. Whoever shall read … Continue reading
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The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
By Abbot Gueranger O.S.B. After having proposed the forty-days’ fast of Jesus in the desert to the meditation of the faithful during the first four weeks of Lent, the holy Church gives the two weeks which still remain before Easter … Continue reading
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Sunday Mass Readings
Saint Patrick Book of Jeremiah 31,31-34. The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers … Continue reading
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