Bp. Daniel Dolan

Meanwhile, back in Albania,the national hero Skanderberg loved her tenderly, and the two laymen followed Our Lady’s image to Italy, not content until they found her. Imitate them, follow her.She’ll give you her Jesus, her Great Counsel. Always ask: Mother, what am I to do?

The Mother of Good Counsel is called the Madonna of Popes,the last,Pius XII, took her for the Patroness of his pontificate. While highly clerical today, this devotion exemplifies the Lay Apostolate:Petruccia,a wealthy widow who worked on repairing the old shrine, all alone…

Blessed Feast of the Mother of Good Counsel! How Our Lady has helped and protected us under this generous title over the years. A novena begun today ends May 4, Solemnity of St Joseph, Ordination Day of our four priests: a providential help for many souls. Pray with us?

I think I’m not allowed to say anything, Jeremy, but you said it rather well. Sometimes it’s enough to ask questions when there could not be any answers. Talk about the Apostolate of the Laity!

A hundred years ago we'd see this as an act of war against the US citizens.

Focus on the message, they seem to say. Angels would. The ladies get it right away, the disciples only by day’s end. The Angel’s appearance make us think of Lent’s Transfiguration, the promised glory of the Risen Body now realized. Angels always need us not to tarry, but to obey.

It snowed yesterday, Easter Monday, heavy white flakelets to announce something. It was only when I got to Lauds that I realized why: Angels, the Easter Angel who is with us every morning and evening of the Octave,his look like lightning and clothing…like snow! 3rd Antiphon

Unlike Christmas, Angels get overlooked at Easter, though they stay all season. You almost wonder why they figure so prominently in the story, these shining heavenly messengers, delivering orders and cutting no slack, leaving guards terrorized and disciples confused.

Ah, pray for the Nigerian seminarians and their fledgling Seminary!

Well phrased. But it’s the former who are in the employ of the latter, a scourge perhaps for our sins. All of them work for God’s Justice Department, and none of them could but serve as a latter to Heaven to us laggers who must still make the first rung. God’s Will will be done.

@rtf_media This one slipped through, but they did it on purpose. Gradualism, but each step was measured. The Greeks as well as the Latins have a long anticipatory Holy Saturday Vigil. It’s good to anticipate, but the feast itself falls on the morrow.

@fighthefall This is good advice. If followed, we could avoid some of the lamentable divisions in our midst. Some problems just aren’t ours to solve. In any case, hang on to Jesus and His Church. It’s the prayers and not the problems which count in the end. Blessed Easter!

For your sake and others, stop applying natural solutions to supernatural problems.

@jarldietrich Well, Ohio’s a big state, Dietrich, but if you’re thinking of coming down West Chester way, you’d be welcome!

I am considering and praying over moving to Ohio within the next year

@FrNkamuke Thank you, dear Father. My prayerful greetings to you, your seminarians and faithful. Let us pray for each other as we minister at His holy altar these greatest days of the year. Hope all is going well. I send a blessing.

@dolan_bp Amen. Wishing you a blessed Triduum, Your Excellency.

A false speaker riseth up against My Face, contradicting Me.They have opened their mouths upon me,and reproaching Me,have struck me on the cheek;they are filled with my pains.These things have I suffered when I offered pure prayers-Offertory of the Mass of the Holy Face.

@thewmreview This is a beautiful meditation and so apposite for the day and the hour. Again and again at Tenebrae we pray Faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus in me.

@dolan_bp Thank you your Excellency. From "The Mental Sufferings of Our Lord" wmreview.co.uk/2022/04/14/men…

Most of all, I accuse myself of refusing to recognize Bergoglio as a true pope, in any sense of the term. I accuse myself of recognizing him and his invalid hierarchy as public heretics, and nothing more. May St Peter of the tears return soon to set things aright.

I imagine St Mark wanting to spare St Peter the humiliating details of the Betrayal but through his tears The Vicar of Christ insists it all be told, inspiring St Mark to tell one on himself, how he fled away naked from the Garden when the soldiers grabbed the sheet.

The just man is his own accuser. I accuse myself of reading and promoting Ven Mary of Agreda, of practicing the anticommunist Holy Face Devotion beloved of St Therese, of celebrating lo these almost 50 Years the Old Holy Week, unreformed.