Monday, March 18, 2019
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
Violet Simple The Station is in the Church of Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr. In this, more than in any other Church of the City of Rome, there has been preserved the ancient arrangement of the early Christian Basilicas. Under its altar there reposes the body of its holy Patron, together with the Relics of […]
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
Second Sunday of Lent
Violet Semidouble (Privilege of the First Class) The subject offered to our consideration on this Second Sunday is one of the utmost importance for the holy Season. The Church applies to us the lesson which our Savior gave to three of his Apostles. Let us endeavor to be more attentive to it than they were. […]
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Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, Bishop and Confessor
White Double The Saint we have to honor today is the Apostle of that faithful people whose martyrdom has lasted three hundred years—it is the great St. Patrick, he that gave Erin the Faith. There shone most brightly in this Saint that gift of the Apostolate, which Christ has left to his Church, and which […]
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Saturday, March 16, 2019
Saturday in Lenten Ember Week
Violet Simple The Station is in the Basilica of Saint Peter, on the Vatican, where the people were wont to assemble, towards evening, that they might be present at the Ordination of the Priests and Sacred Ministers. This day was called Twelve-Lesson-Saturday, because formerly, twelve passages from the Holy Scriptures used to be read, as […]
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Friday, March 15, 2019
Friday in Lenten Ember Week
Violet Simple The Station is in the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles; it is one of the grandest of the Churches of Rome, and is enriched by the Bodies of the two Apostles, St. Philip and St. James the Less. Collect Esto, Domine, propitius plebi tuæ: et quam tibi facis esse devotam, benigno refove miseratus […]
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Thursday of the First Week of Lent
Violet Simple Today’s Station is in the Church of St. Laurence, in Paneperna, one of those which the piety of the Faithful of Rome has built in honor of this the most celebrated of the Martyrs of the Holy City. Collect Devotionem populi tui, quæsumus, Domine, benignus intende, ut uqui per abstinentiam macerantur in corpore, […]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Wednesday in Lenten Ember Week
Violet Simple The fast of today is prescribed by a double law: it is Lent, and it is Ember Wednesday. It is the same with the Friday and Saturday of this week. There are two principal objects for the Ember days of this period of the year: the first is to offer up to God […]
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
White Double Among all the Pastors whom our Lord Jesus Christ has placed as his Vice-regents over the universal Church, there is not one whose merits and renown have surpassed those of the holy Pope whose feast we keep today. His name is Gregory, which signifies watchfulness; his surname is the Great, and he was […]
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