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Good Friday
One of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. He who saw this has testified so that you may believe. His testimony is true, and...
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Passion Sunday: The Rending of the Veil
While the sun’s light failed…the curtain of the temple was torn in two (Lk.23:45).
Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week of Salvation. The reading of Our Lord’s Passion places us at...
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Entering Into Passiontide
‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus’ (Jn. 12:20).
The veiled statues and images in our churches indicate that we have entered into Passiontide. Next Sunday, Palm Sunday, in the reading of the Lord’s Passion we...
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Fifth Sunday of Lent: The Infinite, Incarnate Mercy of God
I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Phil. 3:8). ⧾
Our Gospel reading today is taken from the Gospel of St. John. For John, life begins...
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Laetare Sunday: The Penitent Prodigal and Giving God His Due
So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and...
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Third Sunday of Lent: Accepting or Rejecting God’s Truth
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness (1 Cor. 10:5). ⧾
These sobering words from our epistle reading describe the fate of most of the...
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Second Sunday of Lent: Our Transfigured and Suffering Lord
He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself (Phil....
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Humility and the First Sunday of Lent
When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time (Lk. 4:13). ⧾
On Ash Wednesday we began our observance of the holy season of Lent. By the solemn forty...
