Lent 2020
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First Sunday of Lent
Today’s Gradual began with Psalm 90:11 – “God hath given his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.” And today’s Gospel, Matthew4:1-11, ends – “Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil…
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Lent day 4: lenten offerings
The three types of lenten offerings are supposed to be: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. So I’ve been doing Lent wrong for a long time. My whole life, in fact. Fasting is part of mortifying the senses. Fasting is giving up some good as a sacrifice or a penance. It is not ridding yourself of something…
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Lent Day 3: Prayer to the Blessed Virgin
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Concluding prayer from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary O Mary, spotless, pure, inviolate,Heaven’s clear, effulgent gate,Fair mother of Our Lord and Savior King,Accept the songs we sing.Thee our devoted hearts and tongues implore,That now and evermoreThou keep our hearts and bodies, Mother mild,Blameless and undefiled. By the…