The Mystery of Paschal Time
Of all the Seasons of the Liturgical Year, Eastertide is by far the richest in mystery. We might even say that Easter is the summit of the Mystery of the sacred […]
Tag Archives: Septuagesima
MARCH 25 – THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE EVER BLESSED VIRGIN
Hail full of grace! The Lord is with thee! Blessed art thou among women! This is a great day, not only to man, but even to God himself; for it […]
February 24 – St Mathias, Apostle
In Leap-Year, the Feast of St. Mathias is kept on the 25th of February. An Apostle of Jesus Christ, St. Mathias, is one of the Blessed choir, which the Church […]
Practice During Lent
Having spent the three weeks of Septuagesima in meditating upon our spiritual infirmities and upon the wounds caused in us by sin, we should be ready to enter upon the penitential […]
History of Lent
The forty days’ fast, which we call Lent, is the Church’s preparation for Easter, and was instituted at the very commencement of Christianity. Our blessed Lord Himself sanctioned it by fasting […]
Tuesday of Quinquagesima Week
…almost every page of the Gospel tells us, that we should live out of the world, separate ourselves from the world, hate the world…this World is everywhere, and holds a […]
Quinquagesima Sunday
The Church gives us today another subject for our meditation: it is the Vocation of Abraham. When the waters of the Deluge had subsided, and mankind had once more peopled […]
February 14 – St Valentine, Priest & Martyr
The Church honors, on this fourteenth day of February, the memory of the holy Priest, Valentine, who suffered martyrdom towards the middle of the third century. The ravages of time […]
Sexagesima Sunday
The Church offers to our consideration, during this week of Sexagesima, the history of Noah and the deluge. Man has not profited by the warnings already given him. God is […]
Saturday of Septuagesima Week
The sentence pronounced by the Almighty upon our first parents was to fall upon their children to the end of time. We have been considering, during this week of Septuagesima, the […]
Thursday of Septuagesima Week
Forgiveness is promised; but atonement must be made. Divine justice must be satisfied, and future generations be taught that sin can never pass unpunished. Eve is the guiltier of the two, […]
Wednesday of Septuagesima Week
The guilty pair appear before the great God, whom they have offended; and instead of acknowledging their guilt, they seek to palliate and excuse it. But divine justice pronounces their condemnation, […]
†The Ecu-Men† 