Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Sunday, March 30 : Saint Albert the Great
O Lord, now that we have been cleansed and purified in our inmost selves, given new life by your Holy Spirit and filled with your eucharistic food, give us a share in that grace which was the lot of the holy apostles and disciples, who received the sacrament from your own hand. Prompt in us […]
Sunday, March 30 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 6,1-15.
After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is that of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased. Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his disciples. Now the pasch, the festival day of […]
Saturday, March 29 : Saint Augustine
One of the Psalms says: “Take warning, you judges of the earth” (2:10). Those who judge the earth are kings, governors, princes, judges in the strict sense (…) Let them be warned because those who judge the earth are dealing with earthly things, but it is this woman’s business to fear him who is in […]
Saturday, March 29 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 8,1-11.
And Jesus went unto mount Olivet. And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all the people came to him. And sitting down he taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst, And said to him: Master, […]
Friday, March 28 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 4,5-42.
He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus […]
Thursday, March 27 : Saint Teresa of Avila
How could we forget the Master who taught us this prayer, and with so much love and desire that it benefit us?… You already know that His Majesty teaches that it be recited in solitude. This is what He always did when He prayed, and not out of any need of His own but for […]
Thursday, March 27 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 4,38-44.
And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. And when the sun was down, all they […]
Wednesday, March 26 : Saint Augustine
“The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death” (Rm 8:2) (…) Saint Paul says that the Law of Moses has been given to prove our weakness, and not just to prove it but to increase it and thus force us to find the […]
Wednesday, March 26 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 15,1-20.
Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: Honour thy father and […]
Tuesday, March 25 : Saint Bernard
« The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee, called Nazareth. » Are you surprised that a little town like Nazareth should be honoured by a message from a great King – and what a message! Yet a great treasure is concealed in this little town: hidden from men but not […]
Tuesday, March 25 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,26-38.
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord […]
