Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Tuesday, March 10 : Saint John Chrysostom
Christ is asking two thing of us: to condemn our sins, to forgive those of the others; to do the first because of the second, which then will be easier, for the person who thinks of his sins will be less severe towards his companion in destitution. And to forgive not only with our mouth, […]
Tuesday, March 10 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 18,15-22.
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And […]
Monday, March 9 : Saint Augustine
The poor widow had gone out to look for two blocks of wood to bake some bread: it is at this time that Elijah meets her. This woman is the symbol of the Church; because a cross is made of two pieces of wood, the woman, who was destined to die, searches for something by […]
Monday, March 9 : 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 8 : Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Because Enoch was pleasing to God he was translated bodily into heaven, thus prefiguring the translation of the just. Elijah, too, was taken up just as he was, in the substance of his bodily shape (2Kgs 2,11), foreshadowing by this the taking up of the spiritual man. Their bodies did not in any way prevent […]
Sunday, March 8 : 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 7 : Saint Romanos Melodios
The older son said to his father in anger: “I constantly obeyed your orders, without disobeying a single one… and the prodigal one comes back to you, and you make more of him than of me!” The father had only just heard his son speak in this way, when he gently answered: “Listen to your […]
Saturday, March 7 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 15,11-32.
And he said: A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance. And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there […]
Friday, March 6 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 21,33-46.
Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his […]
Thursday, March 5 : Saint Gregory Nazianzen
“Blessed are the merciful, says the Lord, for they will be shown mercy” (Mt 5:7). Mercy is high in the list of the beatitudes. “Blessed is he who shows pity to the needy and the poor.” And again: “It is good for the man gracious in lending.” We read elsewhere: “All day long he is […]
Thursday, March 5 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 16,19-31.
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. And no one did give him: […]
