Maria Angela Grow

April Prayer of Reparation to the Most Holy Eucharist. . With that profound humility which the Faith itself inspires in me, O My God and Savior Jesus Christ, true God and true man, I love Thee with all my heart and I adore Thee Who art hidden here, in reparation for all the irreverence, profanations and sacrileges which Thou receives in the most adorable Sacrament of the Altar. . I adore Thee, O My God, if not so much as Thou art worthy to be adored nor so much as I am bound to do, yet as much as I am able; would that I could adore Thee with that perfect worship which the Angels in Heaven are enabled to offer Thee. May Thou, O My Jesus, be known, adored, loved and thanked by all men at every moment in this most holy and divine Sacrament. +Amen. . O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine. Amen. . The Raccolta.

Easter Tuesday: From The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Louis Paschal Guéranger, O.S.B., 1904. . White Double of the First Class. . Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus; exsultemus et lætemur in ea! . This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us be glad and rejoice therein! . Our Pasch is the Lamb, and we meditated upon the mystery yesterday: now let us attentively consider those words of sacred Scripture, where, speaking of the Pasch, it says: It is the Phase, that is, the passage of the Lord. God Himself adds these words: I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. So that the Pasch is a day of judgment, a day of terrible justice upon the enemies of God; but for that very reason, it is a day of deliverance for Israel. The lamb is slain; but his immolation is the signal of redemption to the holy people of the Lord. . The people of Israel are slaves to the cruel Pharaoh. Their bondage is the heaviest that can be. Their male children are about to be put to death. The race of Abraham, on which repose the promises of the world’s salvation, is doomed. It is time for God to interpose: the Lion of the tribe of Juda, He whom none can resist, must show Himself. . But in this, the Israelites are a type of another and a far more numerous people—the whole human race; and it is the slave of Satan, a tyrant worse than Pharaoh. Its bondage is at its height. It is debased by the vilest idolatry. It has made every base thing its god; and the God that made all things is ignored or blasphemed. With a few rare exceptions out of each generation, men are the victims of hell. Has God’s creation of man, then, been a failure? Not so. The time is come for Him to show the might of His arm: He will pass over the earth, and save mankind. Jesus, the true Israelite, the true Man come down from heaven, He too is made a captive. His enemies have prevailed against Him, and His bleeding, lifeless Body has been laid in the tomb. The murderers of the Just One have even fixed a seal upon the sepulcher, and set a guard to watch it. Here again, the Lord must pass, and confound His enemies by His triumphant passage. . In that Egypt of old, each Israelite family was commanded to slay and eat the Paschal Lamb. Then, at midnight, the Lord passed, as He had promised, over this land of bondage and crime. The destroying Angel followed, slaying with his sword the first-born of the Egyptians, from the first-born of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive woman that was in prison, and all the first-born of the cattle. A cry of mourning resounded through Mesraïm: but God is just, and His people was made free! . The same victory was gained in the Resurrection which now gladdens us. The midnight was over, and the last shades of darkness were fleeing from before the rising light: it was then that our Lord passed through the sealed stone of His tomb, unperceived by His guards. His Resurrection was a stroke of death to His first-born people, who had refused to receive Him as their Messias, or to know the time of their visitation. The Synagogue was hard of heart, like Pharaoh; it would fain have held captive Him of whom the prophet had said, that He would be free among the dead. Hereupon, a cry of impotent rage was heard in Jerusalem: but God is just, and Jesus made Himself free! . And oh! what a happiness was this passage of our Lord for the human race! He had adopted us as His brethren, and loved us too tenderly to leave us slaves of Satan: therefore, He would have His own Resurrection be ours too, and give us light and liberty. The first-born of Satan were routed by such a victory; the power of hell was broken. Yet a little while, and the altars of the false gods shall everywhere be destroyed; yet a little while, and man, regenerated by the preaching of the Apostles, shall acknowledge his Creator and abjure his idols: for this is the day which the Lord hath made: it is the Phase, that is, the passage of the Lord! . But observe how the two mysteries—the Lamb and the Passover—are united in our Pasch. The Lord passes, and bids the destroying Angel slay the first-born in every house, the entrance of which is not marked with the blood of the lamb. This is the shield of protection; where it is, there divine justice passes by and spares. Pharaoh and his people are not signed with the blood of the lamb: yet have they witnessed the most extraordinary miracles, and suffered unheard-of chastisements. All this should have taught them that the God of Israel is not like their own gods, which have no power; but their heart is hard as stone, and neither the works nor the words of Moses have been able to soften it. Therefore does God strike them and deliver His people. . But this very people, this Israel, ungratefully turns against his deliverer; he is content with the types of the good things promised; he will have no other lamb but the material one. In vain do the prophets tell him that a Lamb is to be sent forth, who shall be King of the earth; that he shall come from the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion. Israel refuses to acknowledge this Lamb as his Messias; he persecutes Him and puts Him to death; and persists in putting all his confidence in the blood of victims that have no longer the power to propitiate the anger of God. How terrible will be the Passage of the Lord over Jerusalem when the sword of the Roman legions shall destroy a whole people! . Satan too, and his wicked angels, had scoffed at this Lamb, they had despised Him, as being too meek and humble to be dreaded; and when they saw Him shedding His Blood on the cross, a shout of exultation rang through the regions of hell. But what was their dismay when they saw this Lamb descending like a lion into limbo, and setting free from their bondage the countless prisoners of the four thousand previous years? and after this returning to our earth, and inviting all mankind to receive the liberty of the glory of the children of God? . O Jesus! how terrible is Thy Passover to Thine enemies! but how glorious for them that serve Thee! The people of Israel feared it not, because their houses were marked with the blood of the figurative lamb. We are more favored than they: our Lamb is the Lamb of God, and Thy Blood is signed, not upon our dwellings, but upon our souls. Thy prophet foretold the great mystery when he said that on the day of Thy vengeance upon Jerusalem, they would be spared whose foreheads should be marked with the Tau. Israel despised the prophecy, which is our joy. The Tau is the sign of Thy cross, dear Jesus! It is Thy cross that shields and protects and gladdens us in this Pasch of Thy Passover, wherein Thy anger is all for Thine enemies, and Thy blessing all for us! At Rome, the Station for today is in the basilica of Saint Paul. The Church is impatient to lead her white-robed troop of neophytes to the Apostle of the Gentiles. Though he is not the foundation of the Church, yet is he companion of Peter’s labors in Rome, his fellow martyr, and the preacher of the Gospel to the Gentiles. As he says of himself he has labored to form children in God:—who could tell the number he has given to Christ? How must he rejoice to see these newly made Christians approach his sacred shrine, there to receive instruction from his epistles, wherein he still speaks to all generations! . . Mass. . The Introit, taken from the book of Ecclesiasticus, celebrates the sublime wisdom of St. Paul, who is the ever pure source, whereat the people of God drink instruction and strength, and so prepare their souls for eternal life. . Introit . Aqua sapientiæ potavit eos, alleluis: firmabitur in illis, et non flectetur, alleluia: et exaltabit eos in æternum. Alleluia, alleluia. . He hath given them the water of wisdom to drink, alleluia: this wisdom shall be strengthened in them, and shall not be moved, alleluia: and it shall raise them up for ever. Alleluia, alleluia. . Ps. Confitemini Domino, et invocate Nomen ejus: annuntiate inter gentes opera ejus. ℣. Gloria Patri. Aqua sapientieæ. . Ps. Praise the Lord, and call upon His Name: declare His deeds among the Gentiles. ℣. Gloria, &c. He hath given, &c. . In the Collect, the Church gives thanks to God for rendering her fruitful, and thus giving her, every Easter, a mother’s ‘joy. She then prays for her new children, that they may have the grace to persevere in the imitation of their risen Lord. . Collect . Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam novo semper fœtu multiplicas: concede famulis tuis, ut sacramentum vivendo teneant, quod fide perceperunt. Per Dominum. . O God, Who by a new increase, dost continually enlarge Thy Church: grant that Thy servants may keep up, by their manner of living, the mystery they have received by believing. Through, &c. . Epistle . Lectio Actuum Apostolorum. . Lesson from the Acts of the Apostles. . Cap. XIII. Ch. XIII. . In diebus illis: Surgens autem Paulus, et manu silentium indicens, ait: Viri Isrælitæ, et qui timetis Deum, audite: Viri fratres, filii generis Abraham, et qui in vobis timent Deum, vobis verbum salutis hujus missum est. Qui enim habitabant Jerusalem, et principes ejus hunc ignorantes, et voces prophetarum, quæ per omne sabbatum leguntur, judicantes impleverunt, et nullam causam mortis invenientes in eo, petierunt a Pilato, ut interficerent eum. Cumque consummassent omnia quæ de eo scripta erant, deponentes eum de ligno, posuerunt eum in monumento. Deus vero suscitavit eum a mortuis tertia die: qui visus est per dies multos his, qui simul ascenderant cum eo de Galilæa in Jerusalem: qui usque nunc sunt testes ejus ad plebem. Et nos vobis annuntiamus eam, quæ ad patres nostros repromissio facta est: quoniam hanc Deus adimplevit filiis nostris resuscitans Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. . In those days: Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew Him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning Him. And though they found no cause of death in Him, yet desired they Pilate that He should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him, they took Him down from the tree, and laid Him in a sepulchre. But God raised Him from the dead: and He was seen many days of them which came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath raised up again Jesus Christ our Lord. . This discourse, which was made at Antioch in Pisidia, in the synagogue, shows us that the Doctor of the Gentiles followed the same method in his instructions as did the Prince of the Apostles. The great subject of their preaching was the Resurrection of Christ; for it is the fundamental truth, it is the fact above all others which proves the divine mission of the Son of God upon earth. It is not enough to believe in Christ crucified; we must also believe in Christ risen. The Resurrection is not only the indisputable fact on which rests the whole certainty of our faith, but it is also the dogma which energizes the whole Christian world. Nothing ever happened on this earth which produced a like impression. See how throughout the whole world it is now celebrated by millions of men of every race and nation! Nineteen centuries have passed away since the relics of St. Paul were first laid in this tomb on the Ostian Way; during that time, how many events have happened which, in their time, were looked on as of momentous importance and are now completely forgotten? For more than two hundred years the storm of persecution was almost ceaseless over Christian Rome; it even became necessary, in the third century, to remove these sacred remains and hide them, for a time, in the catacombs. After this came Constantine, who built this basilica, and erected the triumphal arch near this altar, under which lies the body of the Apostle. Since then, how many changes have taken place in the world! Dynasties, empires, forms of government, have succeeded each other, and only one institution has stood unchanged—the Church. Every year, during these fifteen centuries, she has gone to the basilica of St. Paul, and there, near his tomb, has read this discourse, in which the Apostle proclaimed the Resurrection of Christ to the Jews. Seeing such perpetuity, such unchangeableness, even in things like this, we cannot help exclaiming: Oh! truly, Christ is risen! He is the Son of God! for man could never have given duration to any work of his hand. Our Pasch alone tells us Who Jesus is. Let us learn from the circumstance suggested to us by today’s Epistle, how the dazzling beauty of our risen Jesus is reflected even in the minutest details of our happy worship, the Liturgy. . Gradual . Hæc dies quam fecit Dominus: exsultemus, et lætemur in ea. . This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein. . ℣. Dicant nunc, qui redempti sunt a Domino, quos redemit de manu inimici, et de regionibus congregavit eos. . ℣. Let them now say so, that have been redeemed by the Lord from the hand of the enemy: and He hath gathered them out of the countries. . Alleluia, alleluia. . Alleluia, alleluia. . ℣. Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro, qui pro nobis pependit in ligno. . ℣. The Lord hath risen from the tomb, Who, for our sake was nailed to the Cross. . The Sequence, Victimæ Paschali, is from Easter Sunday. . Gospel . Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Lucam. . Sequel of the holy Gospel according to Luke. . Cap. XXIV. Ch. XXIV. . In illo tempore: Stetit Jesus in medio eorum, et dicit eis: Pax vobis: ego sum, nolite timere. Conturbati vero et conterriti, existimabant se spiritum videre. Et dixit eis: Quid turbati estis, et cogitationes ascendunt in corda vestra? videte manus meas, et pedes, quia ego ipse sum; palpate et videte, quia spiritus carnem et ossa non habet, sicut me videtis habere. Et cum hoc dixisset, ostendit eis manus et pedes. Adhuc autem illis non credentibus, et mirantibus præ gaudio, dixit: Habetis hic aliquid quod manducetur? At illi obtulerunt ei partem piscis assi et favum mellis. Et cum manducasset coram eis, sumens reliquias dedit eis. Et dixit ad eos: Hæc sunt verba quæ locutus sum ad vos cum adhuc essem vobiscum, quoniam necesse est impleri omnia quæ scripta sunt in lege Moysi, et prophetis, et Psalmis de me. Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent Scripturas, et dixit eis: Quoniam sic scriptum est, et sic oportebat Christum pati, et resurgere a mortuis tertia die: et prædicari in nomine ejus poenitentiam, et remissionem peccatorum in omnes gentes. . At that time: Jesus Himself stood in the midst of His disciples, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. And when He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands and His feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And He took it, and did eat before them. And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations. . Jesus shows Himself to all His Apostles, on the evening of the day on which He rose from the grave; and He greets them with the wish of peace. He wishes the same to us, during this Feast of the Pasch. He desires to establish peace among us—peace between man and God, peace in the conscience of the repentant sinner, peace between man and man by the forgiveness of injuries. Let us welcome this wish of our risen Lord, and jealously preserve the peace He thus deigns to bring us. At His birth in Bethlehem, the Angels announced this peace to men of good will; but now, it is Jesus Himself Who brings it to us, for He has accomplished His work of pacification by dying for us on the Cross. The first word He addresses to His Apostles, and through them to us, is Peace! Let us lovingly accept the blessing, and show ourselves to be, in all things, children of peace. The conduct of the Apostles, on this occasion, deserves our attention. They believe in their Lord’s Resurrection; they eagerly announced the great event to the two disciples of Emmaus: but how weak is their faith! They are troubled and frighted at Jesus’ sudden apparition; and when He graciously permits them to handle Him, they are overpowered with joy, and yet there is a certain inexplicable doubt still lingering in their minds. Our Lord has to condescend even to eat in their presence, in order fully to convince them that it is really Himself, and not a phantom. What a strange inconsistency there is in all this! Had they not already believed and confessed the Resurrection of their Master, before receiving this visit? We have a lesson to learn here: it is that there are some people who believe, but their faith is so weak, that the slightest shock would endanger it; they say they have faith, but it is of the most superficial kind. And yet, without a lively and vigorous faith, what can we do in the battle we have to be incessantly waging against the devil, the world, and our own selves? He who wrestles with an enemy is desirous to have a sure footing; if he stand on slippery ground, he is sure to be thrown. Nothing is so common nowadays as unstable faith, which believes as long as there is nothing to try it: but let it be put to the test, and it gives way. . One principal cause of this weakness of faith is that subtle naturalism, which now fills the atmosphere in which we live, and which it is so difficult not to imbibe. Let us earnestly pray for an invincible and supernatural faith, which may be the ruling principle of our conduct, which may never flinch, and may triumph over both our internal and external enemies. Thus shall we be able to apply to ourselves those words of the Apostle St. John: This is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. . In the Offertory, the Church speaks to us in the words of the royal prophet of the fountains of water which sprang up at the thunder of God’s bidding. This voice of the Most High was made known to the earth by the preaching of the Apostles, and, in a special manner, by that of St. Paul. The fountains are the baptismal fonts, from which our neophytes came regenerated unto life everlasting. . Offertory . Intonuit de cœlo Dominus, et Altissimus dedit vocem suam: et apparuerunt fontes aquarum, alleluia. . The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High sent forth His voice, and the fountains of waters appeared, alleluia. . The Church prays, in the Secret, that the Sacrifice she is about to offer may aid us to pass safely on to that infinite glory to which Baptism first opened to us the way. . Secret . Suscipe, Domine, fidelium preces cum oblationibus hostiarum: ut per hæc piæ devotionis officia, ad cœlestem gloriam transeamus. Per Dominum. . Receive, O Lord, we beseech Thee, the prayers of the faithful, together with these oblations: that by these duties of piety they may pass to eternal life. Through, &c. . In the Communion-Anthem, we have St. Paul himself speaking to the neophytes, and telling them what manner of life they must henceforth lead, in order to resemble their divine model, their risen Jesus. . Communion . Si consurrexistis cum Christo, quæ sursum sunt quærite, ubi Christus est in dextera Dei sedens, alleluia: quæ sursum sunt sapite, alleluia. . If you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God, alleluia: mind the things that are above, alleluia. . The Church makes the above words of the Apostle the subject of her concluding Prayer: she begs that her new children, who have just partaken of the Paschal Mystery, may persevere in the new life of which this holy Sacrament is the chief support. . Postcommunion . Concede, quæsumus, omnipotens Deus: ut paschalis perceptio Sacramenti, continua in nostris mentibus perseveret. Per Dominum. . Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that the virtue of the Paschal Sacrament, which we have received, may always remain in our souls. Through, &c.

Easter Tuesday Goffine's Devout Instructions On the Epistles and Gospels (1896 Edition, Benziger Brothers) . To praise and thank God for the mystery of redemption, the Church sings at the Introit of the Mass: “ He hath given them the water of wisdom to drink, alleluia. He shall be made strong in them, and shall not be moved, alleluia. And He shall exalt them forever, alleluia, alleluia (Ecclus. xv. 3). Give glory to the Lord, and call upon His name, declare His deeds among the Gentiles” (Ps. civ. 1). Glory be to the Father, etc. . Prayer . O God, Who dost ever multiply thy Church by a new progeny, grant to Thy servants that they may retain in their lives the mystery which they have received by faith. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, etc. . EPISTLE. Acts xiii. 26-33 . In those days, Paul rising up, and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent. For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing Jesus, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, judging Him have fulfilled them. And finding no cause of death in Him, they desired of Pilate that they might kill Him. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of Him, taking Him down from the tree they laid Him in a sepulchre. But God raised Him up from the dead the third day : Who was seen for many days by them, who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are His witnesses to the people. And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our fathers, this same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus Christ our Lord. . Explanation . Like St. Peter, so St. Paul founds the truth of his doctrine upon the resurrection of Jesus, because Christ had given this as the special proof of the truth of His doctrine. Had He not risen from the dead He would not have been the Son of God, and could not have redeemed mankind. The resurrection is, therefore, the foundation of our belief. On that account He allowed His disciples for a while to doubt, and only to be lieve after He had given them irrefragable proofs of His resurrection by repeatedly appearing to them; that by their doubts and cautious unbelief the wounds of unbelief in our hearts might be healed, and we might know how true is the resurrection, and how firmly founded our faith. . GOSPEL. Luke xxiv. 36-47 . At that time: Jesus stood in the midst of His disciples, and saith to them : Peace be to you : it is I, fear not. But they being troubled and frighted, supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said to them : Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? See My hands and feet, that it is I Myself ; handle, and see : for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see Me to have. And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet. But while they yet believed not, and wondered for joy, He said :. Have you here anything to eat? And they offered Him a piece of a broiled fish and a honeycomb. And when He had eaten before them, taking the remains He gave to them. And He said to them : These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me. Then He opened their understanding, that they might under stand the Scriptures. And He said to them : Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day: and that penance and remission of sins should be preached in His name unto all nations. . Why does Jesus greet His disciples with the words, “Peace be to you”? . 1 . Because He came to restore to men that peace with God, with themselves, with their neighbor, which sin had destroyed. . 2.Because peace is a mark of the children of God, as discord is of sinners. . 3. Because peace is the greatest of all goods. Therefore it is that He will have His apostles, after His example, give the greeting of peace on entering a house. Finally, . 4.Because He desired to encourage His disciples to confidence by His friendliness. . Why did Our Saviour retain the marks of His wounds after His resurrection? . 1. To show that it was the same body which had been wounded during His passion, and to show that He was really risen from the dead. . 2. To teach us that we too shall, in like manner, rise with our bodies. . 3. To make known to us the greatness of His love, through which He has graven us, as it were, on His hands and feet, and in His heart (Isaias xlix. 16) . 4.To impart to us confidence in His endless mercy, and to encourage us to combat against the world, the flesh, and the devil. . 5.To prepare a place of refuge, and an inexhaustible fountain of consolation for all the miserable, afflicted, and tempted. 6. To terrify the impenitent, whom, on the day of judgment, He will show how much He has suffered for them, and that they have been the cause of their own destruction. Oh, let us endeavor to think often on the wounds of Jesus, that we may thereby be encouraged to lead pious lives acceptable to God. . Aspiration . O Jesus, grant that the precious blood which flowed from Thy wounds for me and all sinners may not be lost. . INSTRUCTION ON WHAT WE OUGHT TO BELIEVE CONCERNING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES . “ He opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures” Luke xxiv. 45 . Is it free to every one to read and explain Holy Scripture according to his own opinion? . No; that must be done with submission and conformity to the teaching of the Church. Questions of faith cannot be settled by appealing to the Holy Scriptures alone, since they them selves are liable to be misunderstood. For this reason the Church has done wisely in making the printing, reading, and explaining of Holy Scripture depend upon the permission of lawful spiritual superiors. What, therefore, must one do who desires to read the Holy Scriptures? . He must read them, . 1. Only with the permission of the ecclesiastical superiors. . 2. With the subjection of his own opinion to the decisions of the Church, and the interpretation of the holy fathers. . 3. With suitable preparation, by prayer and fasting, as St. Thomas of Aquinas did, and with devotion and care.

You might want to read the actual Scriptures. 1 Chronicles 22:8: "But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me'". 1 Chronicles 28:3: "But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood'".

@MariaAngelaGrow @realdanieltitus It had nothing to do with war and everything to do with sleeping with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, and then sending Uriah to die so he didn't find out.

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Lessons 1 - 3 from the Divine Office of Easter Tuesday: Luke 24: 36-47; From Book 10, Chapter 24 of the Commentary on Luke by St. Ambrose the Bishop. . And as they thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of His disciples, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. And when He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands and His feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And He took it, and did eat before them. And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations. ------------------------------------- We see here the marvellous nature of the Lord's glorified body, which could pass through an impenetrable thing. It could enter unseen, and then become visible. It could easily be touched, but its nature was (and is) hard to understand. Hence the disciples were affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And therefore the Lord, that He might shew us the evidence of His Resurrection, said: Handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have. From which we can perceive that it was not by virtue of a disembodied state, but by the peculiar qualities of His risen and glorified body, that He had passed through closed doors. For that which is touched or handled is a true body. And we, also, shall all rise again in the body. For it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. The spiritual body is the finer, and the natural body is the grosser, besodden as yet by the corruption of earth. Was not that a real body, wherein remained those marks of His wounds, those holes of the nail-prints which the Lord bade His disciples to handle? Hereby, also, He hath not only strengthened our faith, but hath also quickened our love. For we know that it was His will not to do away with those wounds which He bore for our sake; but rather to carry them into heaven, so that He might plainly shew the Price of our Freedom unto His eternal Father. Such an one is He, marked with these wounds, and Himself the Trophy of our Salvation, unto Whom the Father hath therefore said: Sit Thou on My right hand. And such are also the Martyrs, whose Crown He is, and concerning whom He hath shewn us that they will ever be with Him there. And now, since our Lesson from Luke here faileth to tell us anything more on this point, let us have recourse to John, and consider how that, according to him: Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord: for it was thereby that they received the grace of faith. According to Luke, He called attention to their unbelief. But according to John He said also: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. However, Luke not John, hath: Tarry ye in the City of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Indeed to me it seemeth as though John as an Apostle had busied himself with the greater and higher matters, and that the Evangelist Luke had concerned himself with the narrative, and such things as are more human. Thus Luke writeth with historical fulness whereas John given an abridgement of the historical matter. For even as it is impossible to doubt the word of him who testifieth of these things, and concerning whom we know that his testimony is true, so is it sinful to think of negligence or falsehood as attaching to the other, even Luke, who earned to himself to be an Evangelist, albeit he was not an Apostle, and therefore we hold that both are truthful, neither are they at variance one with the other, either in the difference of the words they use, or in the sacredness of their characters as Evangelists. For though Luke saith that at the first the Apostles believed not, yet he sheweth that afterward they believed: and although, if we regard only the first fact, the Evangelists seem divergent one from the other, yet, when we consider what cometh afterward, we see that they are at one.

Easter Tuesday Mass Propers. Station at Saint Paul-without-the-Walls. Feasts of Saint Hegesippus of Jerusalem; St. Aphraates of Persia; St. Aibert of Tournai; St. George of Militene the Younger; Bd. Herman Joseph of Steinfeld; Bd. Maria Assunta Pallotta; Bd. Ursulina Bertolina of Parma, Virgin; Bd. Edward Oldcorne, Martyr; Bd. Henry Walpole, Martyr; Bd. Alexander Rawlins, Martyr; Bd. Ralph Ashley, Martyr; Our Lady of Puig, Patroness of Valencia; and The Spinner Icon of the Mother of God. Duplex, Clasis I, White. --------------------------- Introit. Eccli. 15: 3 and 4 . Aqua sapiéntiæ potávit eos, allelúja: firmábitur in illis, et non flectétur, allelúja: et exaltábit eos in ætérnum, allelúja, allelúja. The water of wisdom hath He given them to drink, alleluia: He shall be stablished in them, and shall not be moved, alleluia, and shall exalt them for ever, alleluia, alleluia. . Ps. 104, 1 . Confitémini Dómino, et invocáte nomen ejus: annuntiáte inter Gentes ópera ejus. . O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon His Name; declare His deeds among the heathen. ---------------------------------- The Collect of Easter Tuesday. . Deus, qui Ecclésiam tuam novo semper fœtu multíplicas: concéde fámulis tuis; ut sacraméntum vivéndo téneant, quod fide percepérunt. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sæcula sæculórum. . O God, Who dost ever give increase to Thy Church by a new progeny, grant to Thy servants that they may hold fast in their lives the mystery which they have received by faith. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. ----------------------------- The Epistle of Easter Tuesday. Act. 13: 16 and 26-33 . In diébus illis: Surgens Paulus et manu silentium índicens, ait: Viri fratres, fílii generis Abraham, et qui in vobis timent Deum, vobis verbum salútis hujus missum est. Qui enim habitábant Jerúsalem, et príncipes ejus, ignorántes Jesum et voces Prophetárum, quæ per omne sábbatum legúntur, judicántes implevérunt: et nullam causam mortis inveniéntes in eo, petiérunt a Piláto, ut interfícerent eum. Cumque consummássent ómnia, quæ de eo scripta erant, deponéntes eum de ligno, posuérunt eum in monuménto. Deus vero suscitávit eum a mórtuis tértia die: qui visus est per dies multos his, qui simul ascénderant cum eo de Galilǽa in Jerúsalem, qui usque nunc sunt testes ejus ad plebem. Et nos vobis annuntiámus eam, quæ ad patres nostros repromíssio facta est: quóniam hanc Deus adimplévit fíliis nostris, resúscitans Jesum Christum, Dóminum nostrum. . In those days: Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew Him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning Him. And though they found no cause of death in Him, yet desired they Pilate that He should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of Him, they took Him down from the tree, and laid Him in a sepulchre. But God raised Him from the dead: and He was seen many days of them which came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath raised up again Jesus Christ our Lord. ---------------------------- The Gradual, Alleluia and Sequence: . Ps. 117: 23 and 2 . Hæc dies, quam fecit Dóminus: exsultémus, et lætémur in ea. . This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad therein. . Ps. 106: 2 . V. Dicant nunc, qui redémpti sunt a Dómino: quos redémit de manu inimíci, et de regiónibus congregávit eos. . V. Let them declare whom the Lord hath redeemed, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered them out of the lands. . Matth. 28: 2 . Allelúja, allelúja. V. Surréxit Dóminus de sepúlcro, qui pro nobis pepéndit in ligno. Alleluia, alleluia. . V. The Lord is risen from the sepulchre, Who for us hung upon a tree. . Sequence of Easter Sunday: . Víctimæ pascháli laudes ímmolent Christiáni. Agnus redémit oves: Christus ínnocens Patri reconciliávit peccatóres. Mors et vita duéllo conflixére mirándo: dux vitæ mórtuus, regnat vivus. Dic nobis, María, quid vidísti in via? Sepúlcrum Christi vivéntis: et glóriam vidi resurgéntis. Angélicos testes, sudárium, et vestes. Surréxit Christus spes mea: præcédet vos in Galilæam. Scimus Christum surrexísse a mórtuis vere: tu nobis, victor Rex, miserére. Amen. Allelúja. . Christians to the Paschal Victim offer ye your thankful praises. The Lamb the sheep redeemeth: Christ by sin undefiled, reconcileth sinners to the Father. Death and life joined together in that conflict stupendous: the King of life Who died deathless reigneth. Declare to us, O Mary, the vision of thy journey. I saw the Tomb of the living Christ: and likewise the glory of the Risen: Bright Angels attesting, the shroud and napkin resting. Yea, Christ my hope is arisen: to Galilee He now goeth before you. Christ indeed from death is risen, so we know most surely, O King and Conqueror, grant unto us mercy. Amen. Alleluia. --------------------------- The Gospel of Easter Tuesday. Luke 24: 36-47 . In illo témpore: Stetit Jesus in médio discipulórum suórum et dicit eis: Pax vobis: ego sum, nolíte timére. Conturbáti vero et contérriti, existimábant se spíritum vidére. Et dixit eis: Quid turbáti estis, et cogitatiónes ascéndunt in corda vestra? Vidéte manus meas et pedes, quia ego ipse sum: palpáte et vidéte: quia spíritus carnem et ossa non habet, sicut me vidétis habére. Et cum hoc dixísset, osténdit eis manus et pedes. Adhuc autem illis non credéntibus et mirántibus præ gáudio, dixit: Habétis hic aliquid, quod manducétur? At illi obtulérunt ei partem piscis assi et favum mellis. Et cum manducásset coram eis, sumens relíquias, dedit eis. Et dixit ad eos: Hæc sunt verba, quæ locútus sum ad vos, cum adhuc essem vobíscum, quóniam necésse est impléri ómnia, quæ scripta sunt in lege Móysi et Prophétis et Psalmis de me. Tunc apéruit illis sensum, ut intellégerent Scriptúras. Et dixit eis: Quóniam sic scriptum est, et sic oportébat Christum pati, et resúrgere a mórtuis tértia die: et prædicári in nómine ejus pœniténtiam, et remissiónem peccatórum in omnes gentes. . And as they thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of His disciples, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. And when He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands and His feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And He took it, and did eat before them. And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me. Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations. --------------------- Offertory. Ps. 17: 15 et 17 . Intónuit de cælo Dóminus, et Altíssimus dedit vocem suam: et apparuérunt fontes aquárum, allelúja. . The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Highest gave His voice; then were springs of water seen, alleluia. --------------------------- The Secret of Easter Tuesday. . Súscipe, Dómine, fidélium preces cum oblatiónibus hostiárum: ut per hæc piæ devotiónis offícia, ad cæléstem glóriam transeámus. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, . Receive, O Lord, the prayers of Thy faithful with the offerings of sacrifice: that through the service of our pious devotion we may pass to heavenly glory. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. ------------------------------- The Preface of Easter. . Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre: Te quidem, Dómine, omni témpore, sed in hac potíssimum die gloriósius prædicáre, cum Pascha nostrum immolátus est Christus. Ipse enim verus est Agnus, qui ábstulit peccáta mundi. Qui mortem nostram moriéndo destrúxit, et vitam resurgéndo reparávit. Et ideo cum Angelis et Archángelis, cum Thronis et Dominatiónibus, cumque omni milítia cæléstis exércitus, hymnum glóriæ tuæ cánimus, sine fine dicéntes: . It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, to extol Thee indeed at all times, O Lord, but chiefly with highest praise to magnify Thee on this day on which for us was sacrificed Christ our Pasch. For He is the true Lamb Who hath taken away the sins of the world. Who by dying Himself hath destroyed our death; and by rising again hath bestowed a new life upon us. And therefore with the Angels and Archangels, with the Dominations and the Powers, with all the company of the heavenly throng, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name, evermore praising Thee, and saying: ---------------------------- Communion. Col. 3: 1-2 . Si consurrexístis cum Christo, quæ sursum sunt quærite, ubi Christus est in déxtera Dei sedens, allelúja: quæ sursum sunt sápite, allelúja. . If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God, alleluia:. set your affections on things above, alleluia. ------------------------------- The Postcommunion of Easter Tuesday. . Concéde, quæsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut paschália percéptio sacraménti, contínua in nostris méntibus persevéret. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte ejúsdem Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sæcula sæculórum. . Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that the virtue of the Paschal sacrament which we have received may ever abide in our souls. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

@0nlyk1tt3n yes

Should a sitting U.S. president be removed and criminally convicted if the evidence supports it? A. Yes B. No

@BhattiLaib9960 When you have a cat, everything belongs to the cat. You just maintain it for the cat and serve her.

I just got this rug, and now my gray & white cat thinks it belongs to her… 😭🐱 She literally sat right in the center like she owns the whole place 😂 What do you think… is it my rug or hers now? 🤔

@MahikRani50377 yes

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@Kristinartz sleep, then get some healthy food.

YOU WAKE UP IN 1981. NO WI FI, NO CELLPHONE, A QUIET LIFE. WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU DO

@gggirl924 yes tho flag was in front of room

Every morning. Kindergarten through 12th grade. Was it the same in your school? We even said the Lord‘s prayer in grade school after

@Matt_Pinner sin

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

@Matt_Pinner flee

What advice would you give this donkey? 😅

@Amelia558rs I imagine it is paid for

Say one nice thing about this car.

@Kinza1278 10

My son just made this he told me to show you guys give it a score of 1-10

@HELLSBELLS828 sounds like she used it for fertilizer

My grandma used to put her used coffee grounds in a big ole can with egg shells, I never could figure out what she was doing with them🤷‍♂️I do know I never trusted her coffee🤣anyone else had someone do this with coffee grounds?

@lady_valor_07 mid 70's

Can you guess the year?🤔

@TaylorRMarshall He has converted secretly to Judaism and the Chabad and the Toronto blessing pastors both serve the same evil master, Luficer.

Trump is initiating an unjust war and using profanity while typing “Praise be to Allah” on Easter morning. This is an ominous sign. Is he under the witchcraft of Paula White?

@gggirl924 absolutely

I think they should learn the basics at least. What do you think?

@ThrillaRilla369 total fasting.

What’s the fastest way you have ever lost weight?