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Today’s Station: Santa Susanna
Missa: VERBA MEA Auribus
INTROIT: Psalm 5: 2-4
Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry. Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God. For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou [...]

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Today’s Station: San Lorenzo in Lucina
Missa:FAC MECUM
INTROIT: Psalm 85:17
Show me, O Lord, a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded: because Thou, O Lord, hast helped me, and hast comforted me. V: (Psalm 85:1) Incline Thy ear, [...]

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Today’s Station: Santi Cosma e Damiano
The Missal notes that to-day is mid-Lent Thursday. The Gospel relating several miraculous cures, was chosen in connexion with the stational church: St Cosmas and St Damian were physicians.
Missa: SALUS POPULI Ego sum
INTROIT:
I am the salvation of [...]

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Today’s Station: San Sisto Vecchio
Missa: EGO AUTEM
INTROIT: Psalm 30:7-8
But I will hope in the Lord: I will be glad and rejoice in Thy mercy: for Thou hast regarded my humility. Ps. In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: [...]

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Today’s Station: At Santa Maria Maggiore
The spring Ember Week coincides with the first week of Lent. It was instituted for the purpose of consecrating to God the new season, and by fasting and prayer to draw down Heavenly graces on those who on Saturday [...]

Learning how to focus and attend through observing the daily offices has opened me to a whole new relationship with God – one that fills me with peaceful reassurance that I live in a world that is not simply a meaningless round of hard work that ends in ignominious annihilation – a standard culural belief [...]

OR Several years now I’ve posted a series of Meditations on the “Great O Antiphons” that were used in the western Church during Advent. There are enough of them to cover the entire season of the Nativity Fast (new calendar), if they are broken up into short periods of time and we use the odd [...]

SAAC EVERETT’S The Emergent Psalter was a book before it was a podcast. Before that it was the liturgy in development/use at Transmission, Everett’s house church community in NYC. After mentioning the podcast I got the book from Amazon and now it’s a review here.

OR THE WEEK From 1 October – the Eastern Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos – to 7 October – the Western Feast of Our Lady of Victory – a set of prayers to Our Lady asking her help and protection for all Christians.
These two feasts seem to me analogues. And so [...]

Y GRANDPA, Kenny, was very fond of clocks, to say the least: his living room was full of them. There were chimes and cuckoos, wedding clocks and pocket watches, ticks, tocks, falling weights, whirring gears, swinging pendulums and bongs – and one that both chimed and cuckooed. It was glorious at noon! I [...]