Good Friday
“Love speaks little!” (St. Paul of the Cross)
Category: Lent
Friday before Palm Sunday: Honoring Our Sorrowful Mother
With gratitude to Our Sorrowful Mother, our community celebrates the Friday before Palm Sunday in her honor. Our Lady shows us the beauty and fruitfulness of a life totally surrendered to the Father’s will in the service of her Divine Son. We thank her for her fiat, even to the Foot of the Cross. What deep sorrows she accepted for […]
A Lenten Journey
“Lent is a time when we relive the Passion of Christ. Let it not be just a time when our feelings are roused, but let it be a change that comes through cooperation with God’s grace in real sacrifices of self” (Mother Teresa of Calcutta). Into The Desert Into the desert . . . I keep […]
Into the Desert
“Prayer and converse with God is a supreme good: it is a partnership and union with God. As the eyes of the body are enlightened when they see light, so our spirit, when it is intent on God, is illumined by his infinite light. I do not mean the prayer of outward observance but prayer […]
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday . . . now we enter into the Sacred Season of Lent. A special graced time to prepare our hearts for a greater participation and remembrance of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. During these weeks, we allow His sentiments to shape and renew us as we walk with Him . . . and […]
Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gethsemane
Throughout the world, many are celebrating Mardi Gras… while we observe a special Passionist memorial in our Liturgy–Jesus at Prayer in Gethsemane. Gethsemane . . . the curtain which opens the beginning of Christ’s Hour of Suffering. So . . . we seek to pray beside Him, in spirit, and with the Angel, offer Him […]