Calendarium Romanum Forma Ordinaria
Tuesday, March 10 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Every night before you go to bed you must make an examination of conscience (because you don’t know if you will be alive in the morning!). Whatever is troubling you, or whatever wrong you may have done, you need to repair it. For example, if you have stolen something, then try to give it back. […]
Tuesday, March 10 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 18,21-35.
Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with […]
Tuesday, March 10 : Psalms 25(24),4bc-5ab.6-7bc.8-9.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. Remember that your compassion, O LORD, and your love are from of old. In your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O LORD. Good and upright is the […]
Tuesday, March 10 : Book of Daniel 3,25.34-43.
Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud: “For your name’s sake, do not deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant. Do not take away your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, To whom you promised to multiply their offspring […]
Monday, March 9 : William of Saint-Thierry
My wretched soul is naked and cold and benumbed, it longs to warm itself at the fIre of your love… Out of my wide wilderness and the great emptiness of my heart I have collected only these few tiny twigs like the widow of Sarepta; so that, when I do come to the tabernacle of […]
Monday, March 9 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 4,24-30.
Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread […]
Monday, March 9 : Psalms 42(41),2-3.43(42),3-4.
As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God? Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on And bring me to your holy mountain, to […]
Monday, March 9 : 2nd book of Kings 5,1-15a.
Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, was highly esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. Now the Arameans had captured from the land of Israel in a raid a little girl, who became […]
Sunday, March 8 : Saint Gregory of Nyssa
“Come and pass through from the beginning of faith, from the peak of Sanir and Hermon.” (Song 4:8, translation of Gregory of Nyssa)What meaning, then, did we detect in these words? The wellspring of good things always draws the thirsty to itself just as in the Gospel the wellspring says: “If anyone thirst, let him […]
Sunday, March 8 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 4,5-42.
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a […]
Sunday, March 8 : Letter to the Romans 5,1-2.5-8.
Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access (by faith) to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has […]
