Road to Calvary, Alphonsus Liguori

Meditation 11: First Saturday of Lent

Choosing Mortification

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕St. Ambrose - “If you look to yourself, you can do nothing, but if you trust in God, strength will be given you.” 

If we would enter into the Glory of the Blessed, says the Scripture, we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God: “These are the ones who have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their garments, and have made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. (Apocalypse/Revelation 7:14)”

Saint Teresa of Avila - “He who drags the Cross along with ill will feels its weight, however small it is, but he willingly embraces it, however large it is, does not feel it.”

Road to Calvary, Alphonsus Liguori

Meditation 10: First Friday of Lent

Suffering with Patience

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕ Saint Teresa of Avila frequently said, “Domine, Aut Pati, aut Mori - Lord, I desire either to suffer or die.” (see a note on the translation at the following website)

https://ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/aut-pati-aut-mori/ 

St. John of the Cross - “ Oh Lord, I ask nothing of You but to suffer and to be despised for Your sake.”

St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi - “I desire to suffer and not die.”

This is the Will of God, your sanctification. - 1 Thessalonians 4:3

Road to Calvary, Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Meditation 9: First Thursday of Lent

Jesus's Desire to Suffer for Us

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕“(Liguori, per the Duay Rheims) I am come to cast fire upon the Earth; and what will I but that it should be kindled? I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized; and how am I straightened until it be accomplished? - (another translation, as narrated in the podcast) I came to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how eagerly I desire It to be accomplished!”

- Luke 12:49 - 50

Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved His own… He loved them to the end. - John 13:1

Road to Calvary, St. Alphonsus Liguori

Meditation 8: First Wednesday of Lent

Jesus's Sufferings Compared to Ours

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕Jesus Crucified appeared to Sister Magdalene Orsini, to animate her to suffer for sufferings in peace. She answered Him, “But Lord, You only hung on the Cross for 3 hours, whereas I have gone on suffering this pain for several years.” He replied, “From the first moment that I was in My Mother's womb, I suffered in my Heart all that I afterwards endured on the Cross.”

St. Bernard: “In order to redeem the slave, the Father did not spare His own Son, nor did the Son spare Himself.”

Liturgy of the Hours: Vol. II

Season of Lent - Season of Easter

Office of Readings

FIRST READING: Exodus 6:29—7:25 - The first plague sent upon Egypt

Meditation 7: First Tuesday of Lent

Jesus Suffers from the Beginning of His Life

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕Hardly was Jesus conceived in the womb of Mary when He presented to His mind all the sufferings of His Passion, and in order to obtain for us pardon and Divine Grace, He offered Himself to His Eternal Father to satisfy for us, through His sufferings, all the chastisements due to our sins, and from that moment, He began to suffer everything that He afterwards endured in His most bitter Death.

Before the Prayer today, I there are some thoughts shared regarding how I'll be reciting and reading the readings from the LOTH with you. Thanks for your consideration!

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol II

Season of Lent - Season of Easter

SECOND READING: From a sermon by Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, bishop - Let us show each other God’s generosity (Oratio 14, De Pauperum amore, 23-25: PG 35, 887-890)

I wish you all a blessed Lent! Please be aware of a few items:

Moving forward, I will be reciting a couple little devotions before and after the meditations, both for Road to Calvary and for the Office of Readings. The next couple episodes of these will probably include a little commentary for those things, so that people are hopefully on the same page moving forward!

Ads may be coming soon. I don't know for certain how those will be included, whether they're automated ads from Spotify or if I will be reading them, but just be aware of those, and I appreciate your diligent patience enduring those, so that I can receive a little bit of income for the time of reading, editing and devotion I get to share with you!

This podcast will still be including Rosary content further on, but I have a bit of work to do, to make that happen, and I have to be mindful of income and budget outside of that, so unfortunately I don't have an abundance of time right now to offer these episodes continually.

Peace to you and your families and dear ones, and have a blessed Lent!