COLLECTION OF CATHOLIC PRAYERS ETC.
Archbishop and “the First Martyr of Canterbury.” He was born in 953 and became a monk in the Deerhurst Monastery in Gloucester, England, asking after a few years to become a hermit. He received permission for this vocation and retired to a small hut near Somerset, England. In 984 Alphege assumed the role of abbot…
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Doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering. Lord Jesus Christ, I consecrate my whole self, all that I am and all that I am not, all that I have and all that I lack, to Your Most Holy Cross. Your entire Passion—all Your terrible suffering—was for me, alone and individually. And You likewise prepare a…
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In this series I have introduced the brief prayer, doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering—a simple aspiration we can pray many times a day. I also offered some suggestions on preparing for a Consecration to the Most Holy Cross of Jesus that you can pray today on Good Friday, which I am publishing here,…
Reading I Isaiah 52:13—53:12 See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him– so marred was his look beyond human semblance and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man– so shall he startle many nations, because of him…
ROME (CNS) — While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome’s Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17. The pope was welcomed by Claudia Clementi, the jail’s director, and met with about 70 inmates…
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