The Scriptural Rosary

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. II. 

Lenten Season • Easter Season

Sunday I of Lent, Office of Readings

FIRST Reading: Exodus 5:1-6:1

SECOND Reading: From a commentary on the Psalms by Saint Augustine - in Christ we suffered temptation, and in Him we overcame the devil

(Ps 60, 2-3: CCL 39, 766)

Road to Calvary

Meditation 5: First Sunday of Lent

The Principal End of the Passion

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!

➕➕➕1 John 3.16: “In this we have known the charity and the love of God, in that He has laid down His Life for us.”

Luke 9.31: “And they spoke of His Exodus (or excess) which He was to accomplish in Jerusalem.”

St. John Chrysostom: “ This was the principal cause of the Passion of our Lord; He wished it to be known how great was the Love of God for men - of God, Who would rather be loved than feared.

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. II. 

Lenten Season • Easter Season

Saturday after Ash Wednesday, Office of Readings

FIRST Reading: Exodus 3:1-20

SECOND Reading: From the treatise Against Heresies by St. Iranaeus - the friendship of God

(Book 4, 13, 4-14, 1: SC 100, 534-540)

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. II.

Lenten Season • Easter Season

Friday after Ash Wednesday, Office of Readings

FIRST Reading: Exodus 2:1-22; 18:4 - The birth and flight of Moses

SECOND Reading: from a homily by Saint John Chrysostom

(Supp., Homily 6 De precatione: PG 64, 462-466) - Prayer is the light of the spirit

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. II.

Lenten Season • Easter Season

Thursday after Ash Wednesday, Office of Readings

FIRST Reading: Exodus 1:1-22 - The oppression of Israel

SECOND Reading: From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope (Sermo 6 de Quadragesima, 1-2: PL 54, 285-287) - Purification of spirit through fasting and almsgiving

Road to Calvary

Meditation 4: Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Jesus Chose to Suffer (Part 2)

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!

➕➕➕ Having Joy set before Him, He endured the Cross - Hebrews 12.2.

Why did He choose for Himself so much suffering, and a Death so cruel, that Vincent Contenson has said very truly that through mere pain, the Soul of Jesus separated Itself from His Body? St. John Chrysostom answers, “That which sufficed to redeem us was not sufficient for love.” St. Bernard: “He endured much weariness that He might bind man to love Him much.” Says our Savior Himself, “Greater love than this no man has - that a man laid down his life for his friends.” St. Bernard answers: “ but you Have a greater charity, Lord, and giving your life for your enemies!” “He showed His love for us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).”

Liturgy of the Hours, Vol. II.

Lenten Season • Easter Season

Ash Wednesday, Office of Readings

Isaiah 58.1-12, Letter of Saint Clement to the Corinthians (Cap. 7, 4-8, 3; 8, 5-9, 1; 13, 1-4; 19, 2: Funk 1, 71-73. 77-78. 87)

https://ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.php?b=1

Meditation 3: Friday after Ash Wednesday

Jesus Chose to Suffer (Part 1)

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!

The Road to Calvary

Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter

St. Alphonsus Ligouri

“Two things,” says Cicero, “make us to know a lover- that he does good to his beloved and that he suffers torments for him, and this last is the greatest sign of true love.”

St. Peter Chrysologus: “But He considered it to be very little if He showed His Love without suffering.”

Who that has so many proofs of Your Love could resist loving You in return?!

Saint Teresa - the one who does not love You proves that he does not know You.

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!

The Road to Calvary

Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter

St. Alphonsus Ligouri

Meditation 2: Thursday after Ash Wednesday

The Love of Jesus Christ

See Isaiah, 53: 4-7, and Romans 8:32

We read in history of a proof of love so prodigious that it will be the admiration of all ages. There was once a king, lord of many kingdoms, who had one only son - so beautiful, so holy, so amiable that he was the delight of his father, who loved him as much as himself.

This young prince had a great affection for one of his slaves, so much so that, the slave having committed a crime for which he had been condemned to death, the prince offered himself to die for the slave; the father, being jealous of justice, was satisfied to condemn his beloved son to death in order that the slave might remain free from the punishment that he deserved, and thus the son died a malefactor's death, and the slave was freed from punishment.

This fact, unlike anything that has happened in this world, and never will, is related in the Gospels.

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, eleison

The Road to Calvary

Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter

By St. Alphonsus Ligouri

There are 46 total meditations for Lent, from Ash Wednesday, including Holy Week, through Holy Saturday.

Meditation 1: Ash Wednesday

The Value of Meditating on the Passion

St. Bonaventure says that the one who desires to continually advance in virtue should meditate continually on the Passion - there is no practice more beneficial to the soul than frequent meditation on the sufferings of Jesus Christ

“St. Augustine said that a single tear shed at rememberance of the Passion is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or a year of fasting on bread and water.”

Servant of God, Brother Bernard of Corlione, the Capuchin, not being able to read - his brother religious wanted to teach him - upon which he went to consult his crucifix, but Jesus answered him from the Cross, "What is reading? What are books? Behold, I am the book wherein you may continually read the love I have borne you.”

Thomas Aquinas was one day paying a visit to Saint Bonaventure and asked him from what book he had drawn all the beautiful lessons he had written. Saint Bonaventure showed him the image of the Crucified, which was completely blackened by all the kisses that he had given it, and said, “This is my book whence I receive everything that I write; It has taught me what little I know.”