Saturday of Sexagesima Week
On the Saturday of the preceding week, which was devoted to the consideration of the fall of our first parents both in its own malice and in its sad consequences […]
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February 12 – The Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites, Confessors
Bethlehem is so soon followed by Calvary. Clouds are gathering over Holy Church. We are reminded on every side of the approach of those days when our Emmanuel will show […]
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 […]
Tuesday of Septuagesima Week
The serpent’s promises had stifled, in Eve’s heart, every sentiment of love for the God that had created her and loaded her with blessings: she ambitions to be God like Him! […]
February 10 – St Scholastica, Virgin
Scholastica’s combat was the life-long struggle, whose only truce is the soldier’s dying breath. The Sister of the patriarch Saint Benedict comes to us today, sweetly inviting us to follow […]
Monday of Septuagesima Week
The serpent said to the woman: “Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?” (Genesis 3:1) Thus opened the conversation which our mother Eve so […]
February 9 – St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” (Genesis […]
