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 […]
Tag Archives: Sexagesima
Thursday of Sexagesima Week
God promised Noah that He would never more punish the earth with a deluge. But in His justice, He has many times visited the sins of men with a scourge which, […]
Wednesday of Sexagesima Week
O God of infinite justice! we have sinned; we have abused the life Thou hast given us: and when we read, in Thy Scriptures, how Thine anger chastised the sinners of […]
Tuesday of Sexagesima Week
When we reflect upon the terrible events which happened in the first age of the world, we are lost in astonishment at the wickedness of man, and at the effrontery wherewith […]
Monday of Sexagesima Week
All flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. (Genesis 6:12) The terrible lesson, then, which men had received by being driven out of paradise in the person of our first parents, had […]
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 […]
February 11 – Our Lady of Lourdes
My bow shall appear in the clouds and I will remember My covenant with you — (Gen. 9: 14-15) The lessons at Matins on February 11, 1854 (Thursday in Sexagesima […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
The variation of Easter Sunday necessitates almost every year a different arrangement of the Sundays after the Epiphany from that in which they stand in the Missal. Septuagesima often comes in […]
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 […]
Thursday of Sexagesima Week
God promised Noah that He would never more punish the earth with a deluge. But in His justice, He has many times visited the sins of men with a scourge which, […]
Wednesday of Sexagesima Week
O God of infinite justice! we have sinned; we have abused the life Thou hast given us: and when we read, in Thy Scriptures, how Thine anger chastised the sinners of […]
Tuesday of Sexagesima Week
When we reflect upon the terrible events which happened in the first age of the world, we are lost in astonishment at the wickedness of man, and at the effrontery wherewith […]
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