Memorial of St. Patrick

Collect of the Memorial of St. Patrick:
"O God, who chose the Bishop Saint Patrick
to preach your glory to the peoples of Ireland,
grant, through his merits and intercession,
that those who glory in the name of Christian
may never cease to proclaim your wondrous deeds to all".

"Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lay down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise...
I arise today through a might strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness, of the Creator of creation" (St. Patrick's Breastplate)

Friday, Third Week in Lent

St. Mark 12.28-34: "Which commandment is the first of all? 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength...and your neighbour as yourself'".
"I want to be a Christian, even though I should die for it" (Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha).

Thursday, Third Week of Lent

St. Luke 11.14-23: "Jesus was casting out a demon...But some of them said, 'He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of demons'".
"The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing" (Lateran Council IV).
CCC#391-395

Wednesday, Third Week of Lent

St. Matthew 5.17-19: "Do not think I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill".
"For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call upon him? And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as the entire law that I am setting before you today?"
CCC#577-582.

Tuesday, Third Week of Lent

St. Matthew: 18.21-35: "'How often should I forgive? As many as seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'Not seven times, but I tell you seventy-seven times'".
"God does not accept the sacrifice of a sower of disunion, but commands that he depart from the altar so that he may first be reconciled to his brother. For God can only be appeased by prayers that make peace. To God the better offering is peace, brotherly concord and a people made one in the unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" (St. Cyprian).

Monday, Third Week of Lent

St. Luke 4.24-30: "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown".
"My soul is thirsting for the living God; when shall I see him face to face" (Psalm 42),

Third Sunday of Lent (Year B)

St. John 2.13-25: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up".
"No temple was ever more systematically destroyed than was His body. The dome of the temple, His head, was crowned with thorns; its foundations, His sacred feet, were riven with nails; the transepts, His hands, were stretched out in the form of a cross; the Holy of Holies, His Heart, was pierced with a lance" (Bishop Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ).
CCC#584.