CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Lent 2018: February 14 – April 1” – USCCB
“Lent summons us, and enables us, to come back to the Lord wholeheartedly and in every aspect of our life.”
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CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Friday After Ash Wednesday 2.16.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“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.'”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Thursday After Ash Wednesday 2.15.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“… ‘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?'”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Ash Wednesday 2.14.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“Even now, says the LORD,
return to Me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.
For gracious and merciful is He,
slow to anger, rich in kindness,
and relenting in punishment. …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 2.13.18 – USCCB/NABRV
Jesus enjoined them, ‘Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.’ …”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[‘If You Wish, You Can’] – Saint Teresa of Avila, The Book of Her Life, Ch. 25 §17” – Institute of Carmelite Studies
“… O my Lord, how You are the True Friend; and how Powerful! When You desire You can Love, and You never stop loving those who love You! … While in [a] great affliction … these words alone were enough to take it away and bring me complete quiet: ‘Do not fear, daughter; for I AM, and I will not abandon you; do not fear’… And behold, by these words alone, I was given calm together with fortitude, courage, security, quietude and light, so that in one moment I saw my soul transformed. …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2.11.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged Him and said,
‘If You wish, you can make me clean.’
Moved with pity, He stretched out His hand,
touched him, and said to him,
‘I do will it. Be made clean.’ …”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Saint Scholastica, Virgin, Sister of Saint Benedict” – Vatican News
“Scholastica, first Benedictine nun, lived between 480 and 543. A native of Nursia, she was a very docile disciple of her brother, St. Benedict, with whom she vied for perfection of holiness, in learning the wisdom of the heart: so much so that she is said to have bested even her brother in charity. In his Dialogues, the only reference text with a few references to the life of Saint Scholastica, St. Gregory the Great tells of one episode in particular, which reveals her strong human personality and spiritual depth. …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Saturday 2.10.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“… taking the seven loaves He gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to His Disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over–seven baskets. There were about four thousand people. …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time 2.9.18 – USCCB/NABRV
“… [Jesus] looked up to Heaven and groaned, and said … ‘Ephphatha!’ (that is, “Be opened!”) … immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. …”