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Pope Francis presides over Passion Liturgy in St. Peter's
News.va - Mar 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over the Passion Liturgy on Friday afternoon – Good Friday – the day on which the whole Church recalls the suffering, crucifixion, and death...
Lady Day and Good Friday – Of the Angels’ ‘Ave’ and the ‘Consummatum est’.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 25, 2016 at 3:00 pm Today, 25 March 2016, is simultaneously the Feast of the Annunciation and Good Friday. Liturgically we celebrate the Annunciation later.
In ancient times there was a tradition...
Obamacare case: RNS reports both sides, though little on those in between
GetReligion - Mar 25, 2016 at 3:00 pm Yaayyy! Someone remembered that there are two sides (at least) to a controversy!
And it's not Normal, Moderate Americans vs. Those Nuts on the Right!
The Religion News Service...
St. Margaret Clitherow: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 25, 2016 at 2:25 pm St. Margaret Clitherow was born in Middleton, England, in 1555, of protestant parents. Possessed of good looks and full of wit and merriment, she was ...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 25, 2016 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: Genesis 1:1-31, Reading 1: Genesis 2:2, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:12-14, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:1-2, Responsorial Psalm: ...
Prayer before Confession: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, March 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 25, 2016 at 2:25 pm Receive my confession, O most loving and gracious Lord Jesus Christ, only hope for the salvation of my soul. Grant to me true contrition of soul, so ...
March 25, date of the Incarnation and Passion: Annunciation and Good Friday: Popule Meus, quid feci tibi?
Rorate Coeli - Mar 25, 2016 at 2:07 pm O holy God! O holy Strong One! O holy Immortal One! Have mercy on us.As is well known, many early Fathers and much of the faithful believed that the first Good Friday fell in the...
Cantalamessa: Homily for Good Friday
News.va - Mar 25, 2016 at 1:50 pm (Vatican Radio) At St Peter's Basilica, the Preacher of the Pontifical Household, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., gave the homily for the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion....
25 March 1991: Archbp. Marcel Lefebvre – R.I.P.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 25, 2016 at 1:34 pm On this day in 1991 Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre died.
Lefebvre was a great churchman, an astoundingly effective missionary.
I learned of Lefebvre’s death in an interesting way. I...
Brussels: Do not succumb to vengeance, Pope’s preacher says
Vatican Insider - Mar 25, 2016 at 1:19 pm May there be no vengeance but only mercy, the only feeling that can save the world. “The hate and the brutality of the terrorist attacks this week in Brussels help us to...
Good Friday 3 April AD 33 – Lunar and Solar Eclipses as Christ died on the Cross
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 25, 2016 at 1:11 pm The fellow who made the video about the Star of Bethlehem (a compelling argument, I might add), also did some research about what happened in the heavens on Good Friday.
Let’s...
Washing Feet – observations
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 25, 2016 at 1:01 pm I refer the readership to some lucid and sober comments about the pedilavium, the foot washing, that can occur as an option in both uses of the Roman Rite.
Fr John Hunwicke makes...
Mercy will save the world: papal preacher's Good Friday meditation
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 pm Vatican City, Mar 25, 2016 / 12:45 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Remembering this week's deadly terror attack in Brussels, the papal preacher centered his Good Friday reflection on mercy's...
Mercy will save the world: papal preacher's Good Friday meditation
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 25, 2016 at 12:45 pm Vatican City, Mar 25, 2016 / 11:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Remembering this week's deadly terror attack in Brussels, the papal preacher centered his Good Friday reflection on mercy's...
Judas, the Brussels bombers and those who armed them
Vatican Insider - Mar 25, 2016 at 12:25 pm Three days after the Brussels attacks carried out by ISIS terrorists, the Islamic State having established itself between Syria and Iraq, Pope Francis has made a silent but...
Good Friday Reflection—Forgiveness
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Almighty God, Merciful Father, in the Name of Your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ and by Thy Spirit, prepare for...
Knowledge of Angels
Commonweal - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:50 am Knowledge of Angels – an objective or subjective genitive? What angels know or what one knows of angels? The ambiguity of the expression, the title of Jill Paton Walsh’s...
LENTCAzT 45 – Good Friday: The Twelfth Station
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 25, 2016 at 11:46 am
It is Good Friday in the Sacred Triduum. Coincidentally, it is the Feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief.
These 5 minute podcasts are intended to give you a daily boost in your...
The Easter Vigil Readings
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Good Friday: Readings for the Lord's Passion
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