Tag Archives: Passion of Christ

Beautiful Saint Clare: a True Heroine

She heard a talk by St Francis of Assisi, left all wealth and comfort behind, and slept on the floor of the order of nuns she founded for forty-one years St. Clare was born Chiara Offreduccio on July 16, 1194, … Continue reading

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A Poem by Hilaire Belloc 

Our Lord and Our Lady They warned Our Lady for the ChildThat was Our Blessed Lord,And She took Him into the desert wild,Over the camel’s ford. And a long song She sang to HimAnd a short story told:And she wrapped … Continue reading

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The Passion of the Church

“To persecute the Church is to persecute Jesus Christ, and if the Church is persecuted today, it is Christ that is persecuted. In a certain sense the Passion of Christ is being repeated all over again right before our eyes in … Continue reading

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Lenten Meditation: The Holy Shroud Of Our Lord 

This was given as a meditation given by Fr Matthew McDonald during a Lenten Forty Hours Devotion on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at Saint Mary’s Church, Washingtonville, New York. The scripture readings and text of the prayers of this Mass … Continue reading

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St. Gemma Galgani and her Guardian Angel

Yesterday was the feast of Gemma Galgani, one of the Church’s mystics. As it fell on a Sunday this year (2021) we celebrate it today, April 12th. Gemma was born in Camigliano, Italy on March 12, 1878 of devout parents. … Continue reading

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Not This Man but Barabbas

by Fr Paul D. Scalia In their respective narratives of our Lord’s Passion, all four Gospels mention the crowd’s election of Barabbas over Jesus. That choice comes at the end of Pontius Pilate’s half-hearted attempt to free Christ. It is … Continue reading

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Meditation on the Passion – by Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich

The procession of the Crucifixion was headed by a trumpeter, who sounded his trumpet at every street corner and proclaimed the execution. Some paces behind him came a crowd of boys and other rude fel­lows, carrying drink, cords, nails, wedges, … Continue reading

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