Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

Saint: Saint Marcartan, Bishop (-506) 

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 44 Satisfaction by the Excommunicated

Mass: Jer 7:23-28; Resp Ps 95; Lk 11:14-23

If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

PRAY FOR US.

Listen to my voice; says the Lord, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all ways that I command you, so that you may prosper (Jer 7:23). May we open our minds and hearts to the voice of God this day. Prosper the work of our hands! prosper the work of our hands! (Ps 90:17).

Prayer is an offering that belongs to God and is acceptable to Him: it is the offering He has asked for, the offering He planned as His own.

We must dedicate this offering with our whole heart, we must fatten it on faith, tend it by truth, keep it unblemished through innocence and clean through chastity, and crown it with love. We must escort it to the altar of God in a procession of good works to the sounds of psalms and hymns. Then it will gain for us all that we ask of God.

(From the treatise On Prayer by Tertullian, priest, in Office of Readings, Third Week of Lent, Thursday)

We remain united in faith and prayer. Jesus, Crown of Peace, have mercy on us.

IF YOU LOVE

You might quiet the whole world for a second 

if you pray.

And if you love, if you

really love,

our guns will

wilt.

(From the section on Saint John of the Cross, 1542-1591, in Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from East and West, p. 317)

SAINT MARCARTAN,

PRAY FOR US.

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