Lent 2020
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Lent day 20: St. Joseph & the Apocalypse
Dearest St. Joseph, on this day and always, lead us as the head of our spiritual family, in the good company of Mary Mediatrix of all graces, to humbly fall at the feet of our Savior, and to remember to glorify God in the midst of every temporal evil. Amen. Apocalypse of St. John –…
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Lent day 19 : The Fifth Station – Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus to Carry His Cross
We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world. Meditation: Consider that the Jews, seeing that at each step Jesus, from weakness, was on the point of expiring, and fearing that He would die on the way, when they wished Him to die the ignominious…
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Lent day 18: prayers for our leaders & against pestilence
The following prayer was written by His Excellency Bishop John Carroll, the first bishop of the United States. This was written in 1791, so take it with a grain of salt. We should always pray for our nation and our leaders, but today it seems all the more pressing! We pray, O almighty and eternal…