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21.04.202517:43
"[M]any of those who said, His blood be upon us and upon our children (Mt 27:25), later on came to believe the apostles bringing them the good news of the resurrection. His blood was indeed upon them, but it was to wash them, not to destroy them; well, upon some to destroy them, upon others to cleanse them; upon those to be destroyed, in justice; upon those to be cleansed, in mercy."
— St. Augustine, Sermon 229F, Preached on the Monday After Easter
— St. Augustine, Sermon 229F, Preached on the Monday After Easter
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20.04.202521:17
"[T]he sheep was being slaughtered for their food at the very moment that Christ was being killed by their tongues and teeth; what their custom signified, their crime accomplished."
"[L]et Christianity in its celebrations show to be fulfilled what the law in antiquity foretold would come. In this way let us observe that they have remained in the shadows, and rejoice that we have attached ourselves to the light."
— St. Augustine, Sermon 229C, On the Holy Day of Easter
"[L]et Christianity in its celebrations show to be fulfilled what the law in antiquity foretold would come. In this way let us observe that they have remained in the shadows, and rejoice that we have attached ourselves to the light."
— St. Augustine, Sermon 229C, On the Holy Day of Easter
20.04.202513:40
"Just as the Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Lord, holds the first place among all women, even so, this day is the mother of days among all days."
— St. Jerome, Homily 93 on Easter Sunday
— St. Jerome, Homily 93 on Easter Sunday
15.04.202518:05
"If when Aaron and Mariam spoke against Moses, they instantly experienced the punishment of God, coming in defense of His servant, how much more will anyone of you be punished by divine judgment if, with viperous lips, he slanders his Bishop."
— St. Jerome, On Lent (Homily 90)
— St. Jerome, On Lent (Homily 90)
14.04.202516:02
Jesus therefore, six days before the Pasch, came to Bethany, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.
And they made him a supper there, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who was at table with him.
Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
"Martha signifies the prelates who are appointed to serve in the churches... Lazarus, who had been raised to life, signifies those who have been brought from sin to the state of righteousness by the ministry or service of the prelates... Mary signifies the contemplatives..."
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on John 12
21.04.202514:06
I will be offering the remaining days of the Divine Mercy Novena for the soul of his holiness Pope Francis.
20.04.202519:34
"For it is not on one place, nor in a narrow plot, that the glory of God is established, but on all the ends of the earth."
— St. Melito of Sardis, On Pascha
— St. Melito of Sardis, On Pascha
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Nicholas J. Fuentes
20.04.202512:27
Don’t pay any attention to politics today.
Jesus conquered hell, defeated death, and freed us from the bondage of sin. Nothing can undo the victory that has already been won!
Jesus conquered hell, defeated death, and freed us from the bondage of sin. Nothing can undo the victory that has already been won!
19.04.202518:35
"Christ went, but he never left the apostles; the Lord went to death, but he never departed from life; he descended into hell, but he was not absent from heaven, as he himself attests when he says: 'No one has ascended to heaven, except the One who has descended from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.'"
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
15.04.202511:14
"Judas, to whom the Lord gave the piece of bread, gave the devil his chance to enter him, not by receiving something evil, but by receiving something in an evil way. So when a man receives the sacrament of the Lord unworthily the result is not that the sacrament is evil because he is evil, nor that he has received nothing at all because he has not received it for his salvation."
— St. Augustine, On Baptism 5.9
— St. Augustine, On Baptism 5.9
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14.04.202511:25
"O my God, I resolve with all my heart, in your presence, every day, to think about death, at least when I lie down and when I rise... I will praise God for having brought me to think about repentance, and I will put order into my affairs, into my confession, into my meditation, thinking not about what passes, but with great care, great courage, and great diligence about what remains."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
21.04.202514:03
Pope Francis, after a penitential Lent in which he underwent great suffering due to his illness, passed on to his eternal reward at 7:35AM in Rome. Pray for the repose of his soul: Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
20.04.202517:21
"Today, Christ, with the thief, has removed the flaming sword and reopened the gate of Paradise that no one has been able to storm."
— St. Jerome, Homily 93 on Easter Sunday
— St. Jerome, Homily 93 on Easter Sunday
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20.04.202500:53
"We must rejoice a great deal over this transformation by which we are taken from earthly coarseness to heavenly dignity through that ineffable mercy of the one who descended to our state in order to lift us up to his."
— Pope St. Leo the Great, On the Lord's Resurrection, Delivered on Holy Saturday on the Easter Vigil
— Pope St. Leo the Great, On the Lord's Resurrection, Delivered on Holy Saturday on the Easter Vigil
19.04.202515:34
"Just as, when Christ was being born, conception did not follow its usual order, birth did not proceed according to custom, nature did not observe its own laws, so too at his death Tartarus lost those he was keeping under his sway, hell forfeited the prerogative of its age-old power, and death relinquished what had been guaranteed under the ancient law by decree of the new order."
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
14.04.202520:05
"When god made all things by weight, number, and measure, but particularly at the time when he was seen on earth and lived with humankind, whatever he did, spoke, or suffered among us was so arranged that not the smallest detail, not one iota, was devoid of sacramental content or passed without mystery."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
14.04.202500:09
Video: On the People Who Killed Jesus by Christian B. Wagner
20.04.202515:01
He is all things.
He is law, in that he judges.
He is word, in that he teaches.
He is grace, in that he saves.
He is father, in that he begets.
He is son, in that he is begotten.
He is sheep, in that he suffers.
He is human, in that he is buried.
He is God, in that he is raised up.
— St. Melito of Sardis, On Pascha
20.04.202500:18
On April 19th, 2005—twenty years ago today—Pope Benedict XVI began his pontificate.
15.04.202518:06
"Do not, then, pay attention to God alone. You are also indebted to your superiors and to your brothers. God does not wish you to treat as worthless those to whom he attributes great worth."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
14.04.202519:11
"One might ask why our Lord, since he knew that Judas was a thief, entrusted him with the money box? First, according to Augustine, Christ did this so that his Church would be patient when it was robbed; for one is not good if he cannot endure those who are evil... Second, our Lord entrusted him with the money box to lessen his danger of final damnation, because he could then satisfy his greed from the money box... Third, according to others, he did this in order to teach us that spiritual things should be entrusted to those who are more worthy, and temporal things should be entrusted to the less worthy."
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on John 12
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on John 12
13.04.202522:40
"Knowing that the passion would soon follow, what meaning did he intend the procession to have? Perhaps so that the passion, being preceded by the procession, would be all the more bitter for that reason. It was by the same people, in the same place, at the very time—with a few days in between—that he was first received in such triumph and afterward crucified."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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