Second Sunday of Lent — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI

The Transfiguration of Jesus, Carl Heinrich Bloch, 1872

Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew

At that time Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and His garments […]

By |February 25th, 2024|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|

The First Sunday of Lent — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI

Temptation of Christ, Philips Immenraet, 1663

Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew

At that time Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming said to him: ‘If […]

By |February 18th, 2024|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Traditional Liturgy|

A Meditation for the Feast of the Flight into Egypt

N.B. February 17th was listed as the Mass of the Flight of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Egypt as a Mass for particular places in pre-1962 Missals. It is remembered presently in the Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows (Day 2), Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos (Sixth Chant), and is an important minor feast in the Coptic Church as the Feast of […]

By |February 17th, 2024|Categories: Spiritual Growth, Theotokos Messages|
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