Posted on 02/20/2007 6:14:51 PM PST by Salvation
Tuesday, Fourth Week of Lent
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I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple. (Ezekiel 47:1)
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Wednesday, Fourth Week of Lent |
"If you believed Moses you would then believe me, for it was about me that he wrote." (John 5:46)
Lenten Question |
Thursday, Fourth Week of Lent
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Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you." (Isaiah 49:15)
Flower of Obedience I met Her in a garden,
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Friday, Fourth Week of Lent
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"Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us." (Wisdom 2:12)
Lenten Fact Since Lent is a penitential season of preparation for Easter, the Stations of the Cross, which follow the path of Christ from Pontius Pilate's praetorium to Christ's tomb have been a popular devotion in parishes. In the 16th century, this pathway was officially entitled the "Via Dolorosa" (Sorrowful Way) or simply Way of the Cross or Stations of the Cross. |
Saturday, Fourth Week of Lent
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Lord, my God, in you I take refuge! (Psalm 7:2)
Lenten Fact Tradition holds that our Blessed Mother visited daily the scenes of our Lord's passion. |
Sunday, Fifth Week of Lent
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Then a voice came from the sky: "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again." (John 12:28)
Lenten Fact Passiontide is the last two weeks of Lent, when the readings and prayers of the liturgy focus on the Passion of Our Lord. The word 'passion', in the Christian sense, does not mean an intense emotion; it refers to the historical events of Jesus' suffering and death. Although for several centuries the Fifth Sunday of Lent was known as Passion Sunday, after the Second Vatican Council this name was restored to the Sunday at beginning of Holy Week , formerly called Palm Sunday. As a penitential season of the Church, Passiontide is evidently even more ancient than Lent. |
Monday, Fifth Week of Lent |
"Nor do I condemn you. You may go." (John 8:11)
Lenten Fact. In 1342, the Franciscans were appointed as guardians of the shrines of the Holy Land. The faithful received indulgences for praying at the following stations: At Pilate's house, where Christ met His mother, where He spoke to the women, where He met Simon of Cyrene, where the soldiers stripped Him of His garments, where He was nailed to the cross, and at His tomb. |
Tuesday, Fifth Week of Lent |
Because He spoke this way, many came to believe in Him. (John 8:30)
Lenten Fact. When the Moslem Turks blocked the access to the Holy Land, reproductions of the Stations of the Cross were erected at popular spiritual centers, including the Dominican Friary at Cordova and Poor Clare Convent of Messina (early 1400s); Nuremberg (1468); Louvain (1505); Bamberg, Fribourg and Rhodes (1507); and Antwerp 1520). Many of these stations were reproduced by renowned artists and are considered masterpieces today. |
Wednesday, Fifth Week of Lent |
"If you live according to my teaching, you are truly my disciples." (John 8:31)
Lenten Fact. St. Leonard Casanova (1676-1751) of Porto Maurizio, Italy, reportedly erected over 600 sets of the Stations of the Cross throughout Italy. |
Thursday, Fifth Week of Lent |
"I solemnly assure you, if a man is true to my word he shall never see death." (John 8:51)
Lenten Fact. In the early 3rd century, Lent was lengthened to 6 days. About 800 AD it was changed to 40 days. |
Friday, Fifth Week of Lent
Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence. |
Lord of hosts, you who test the just, who probe mind and heart...to you I have entrusted my cause. (Jeremiah 20:12)
Lenten Fact. Wenceslaus, king of Bohemia, being seized with a malady which rendered it dangerous to his health to take Lenten diet, applied, in the year 1297, to Pope Boniface VIII., for leave to eat meat. The Pontiff commissioned two Cistercian abbots to inquire into the real state of the prince's health; they were to grant the dispensation sought for, if they found it necessary, but on the following conditions: that the king had not bound himself by a vow, for life, to fast during Lent; that the Fridays, the Saturdays, and the vigil of St. Mathias, were to be excluded from the dispensation; and, lastly, that the king was not to take his meal in presence of others, and was to observe moderation in what he took. |
Saturday, Fifth Week of Lent |
Jesus would die for the nationand not for this nation only, but to gather into one all the dispersed children of God. (John 11:51-52)
Lenten Question Q: Why do we fast and abstain during Lent? |
Passion (Palm) Sunday |
They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks across its back, and he sat on it. (Mark 11:7) Reflection. Lenten Fact According to the account of a fifth-century Spanish pilgrim to the Holy Land, Passion Sunday Mass was celebrated in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. After this the people were invited to meet again in the afternoon at the Mount of Olives, in the Church of Eleona (the grotto of the Our Father). They then proceeded to the Church of the Ascension for a service consisting of hymns and antiphons, readings and prayers, where at five o'clock in the afternoon the Gospel of the palms was read and the procession set out for the city. The people responded to the antiphons with the acclamation, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord," as we say even today. |
Monday of Holy Week
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Then she dried his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the ointments fragrance. (John 12:3)
Reflection.
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Tuesday of Holy Week |
"I tell you solemnly, one of you will betray me!" (John 13:21) Reflection.
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Wednesday of Holy Week |
I looked for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, and I found none. (Psalm 69:21) Reflection. My mom has prayed the daily rosary for as long as I can remember. We used to say it together as a family. At home, she always used a large wooden rosary she had owned for many years. The count of "Hail Marys" through five mysteries everyday was always accurate except for the third decade. Here, as my mom fingered the last "Hail Mary" bead, Sam would always say one more "Hail Mary" and naturally everyone would give the "Holy Mary" response. "There he goes again," she'd think to herself as he began the "extra" prayer. "Why does he always say eleven 'Ave Marias' in the third decade?" That pattern continued for several years until one day when my mom left her purse in the car and had to borrow a pair of rosaries from the lady sitting next to her. Lo and behold, this time when my mom fingered the final "Hail Mary" bead of the third decade, Sam dutifully followed with the "Glory Be." This prompted my mom to do something she otherwise wouldn't have thought of: to check the rosary beads in her purse - that set only contained nine beads in the third decade!
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Thursday of Holy Week
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"But if I washed your feet...then you must wash each others feet." (John 13:14)
Reflection.
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Friday of Holy Week
Good Friday Fast & Abstinence Today |
Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured. (Isaiah 53:4)
Reflection.
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Saturday of Holy Week |
"He has been raised up; he is not here." (Mark 16:6) Reflection. THE CROSS The cross is the hope of Christians
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Easter Sunday |
Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining. (Sequence of Easter Sunday)
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