Homily for Quinquagesima Sunday
☩ PAX Homily 2 March 2025 Quinquagesima Sunday Domine, ut videam.—‘O Lord, that I may see.’ Setting forth on a journey Today, as we...
Through the Gate of Septuagesima
Thou Shalt Surely Die of Death The image — it is by Michelangelo and is found in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican — depicts...
Yes, Tomorrow Is Septuagesima Sunday
Looking toward Holy Pascha Tomorrow is Septuagesima Sunday. In three weeks our heads will be marked with the ashes of penitence. A special time of...
From the Epistle of Sexagesima Sunday
Nicolas Poussin, The Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1649-50 This glorious entanglement of arms and legs, both mortal and angelic represents Saint Paul’s rapture up to...
Lord, that I may see
Gospel: Then Jesus took unto him the twelve, and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be accomplished which...
Into the Ark of Salvation
Sexagesima Three figures surround the Divine Sower of the Seed on Sexagesima Sunday. The first is Noe, the second the immaculate Mother of God, and...
Sexagesima Sunday
Attend to the Antiphons If you would enter deeply into the liturgy of any given Sunday, attend closely to the antiphons. The Magnificat Antiphon at...
Illumina faciem tuam super servum tuum
The Journey Begins Today we begin the great annual journey to the Pasch of the Lord. It is a laborious ascent marked by four phases:...
At First Vespers of Septuagesima
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Votive Mass of the Prayer in the Garden
Among the beautiful Votive Masses of the Passion, found in some missals for certain weekdays after Septuagesima and through Lent, is that of The Prayer...