by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
Catholic TV Mass for Monday of the First Week of Lent, Feb. 19, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“‘… I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, a stranger and you welcomed Me, naked and you clothed Me, ill and you cared for Me, in prison and you visited Me.’ …. ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ ….”
“The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert … He remained in the desert … forty days, tempted by Satan. … among wild beasts … the Angels ministered to him. Jesus came to Galilee … ‘This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
“Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed Him. … Jesus said … ‘Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.'”
Catholic TV Mass for Friday after Ash Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“Lent summons us, and enables us, to come back to the Lord wholeheartedly and in every aspect of our life.”
Catholic TV Mass for the Friday After Ash Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“Jesus answered … ‘Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.'”
“… ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My Sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?'”
“… although any time is suitable for the exercise of the virtue of charity, it is more especially urged on us by this present season. … those who long to receive the Lord’s Pasch with bodies and souls made holy must strive earnestly to acquire this grace which includes the sum of all virtues and ‘covers a multitude of sins’ (1Pt 4:8). … as we are about to celebrate that most eminent of all mysteries, in which the Blood of Jesus Christ wiped away all our sins, let us first of all prepare to offer the sacrifice of mercy so that, what we have been given by the Mercy of God, we ourselves may show to those who have sinned against us. May wrongs be cast into oblivion, sins not draw down punishment, and may all those who have trespassed against us no longer fear to be repaid in kind ….”