Good Friday
Jesus:
O Mother dear, didst thou but hear
My plaint of desolation,
Thy tender heart would burst apart
With grief of separation!
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Holy Thursday
Holy Thursday
Prone in Gethsemene upon His face,
His eyelids closed, — lay Christ of all our world,
Know, receive, and love Jesus!
March 27
“We still have one short question to answer: ‘How are Catholic women to accomplish their providential role as spiritual mothers (with Mary) of the human race?’ The answer is simplicity itself. Like Mary –
- They are to know Jesus from daily intimacy with Him in prayer
- They are to receive Jesus by often receiving Him into their hearts
- They are to love Jesus, by spending themselves in serving the needs of Christ’s children as they have never done before.”
-Fr. John A Hardon, S.J.
The heart of the Church
March 26
“The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Drawn into God
March 25
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Follow in Mary’s footsteps
March 24
“I am confident that the Holy Spirit is sending down His gifts of fiery tongues on the Church today – and with emphasis on the women. He is inspiring them to follow in Mary’s footsteps and do for the beleaguered faithful in our day what she did for the infant Church in her day. Time and again our Holy Father has appealed to the faithful women as they stand beneath Christ’s bleeding Mystical Body to carry on Mary’s role as Mother of the Church in our time.”
-The Apostolate of Women by Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
Save the peace of the world
March 23
“Reconcile men with life and above all, we beseech you, watch carefully over the future of our race. Hold back the hand of man, who, in a moment of folly, might attempt to destroy human civilization… Women of the entire universe… you to whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for you to save the peace of the world.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
The vocation of woman
March 22
“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of woman is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women impregnated with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling.”
-Closing Message to Women, Second Vatican Council
Her noble character
March 21
“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
More precious than pearls
March 20
“How rare it is to find a valiant woman! It is perhaps necessarily so, since Scripture says that they are more precious than pearls and diamonds. Let us, however, work to train a few.”
-St. Madeline Sophie Barat
