Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
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 […]
Monday, March 24 : Saint Ambrose
Naaman was a Syrian who had leprosy and could not be cured by anyone. Then a young slave girl said there was a prophet in Israel who could cleans him of his leprous affliction… Now learn who was that young girl among his slaves: she was the youthful gathering from among all the Gentiles, namely […]
Monday, March 24 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 4,23-30.
And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country. And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I say to […]
Sunday, March 23 : Saint Amadeus of Lausanne
«May your hand be ready to help me!» (Ps 119[118],173). The Father’s beloved Son is he whom we call the hand of God, he through whom God created all things. This hand intervened when it took our flesh, not simply without injury to his mother, but still more, according to the prophet’s testimony, by taking […]
Sunday, March 23 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 11,14-28.
And he was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were in admiration at it. But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. And others tempting, asked of him a sign from […]
Saturday, March 22 : Saint Augustine
“O Lord, you have read my thoughts from afar; you have marked my path and my journey’s end; you have foreseen all my ways.” In other words, while I am still a pilgrim and have not yet reached my true country, my thoughts are an open book to you. Think of the younger son of […]
