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Liturgical Year 2018-2019, Vol. 3 Lent by Jennifer Gregory Miller and Darden Brock (editors) Third of six volumes covering the 2018-2019 Catholic liturgical year, covering all the days of Lent. Trinity Communications CatholicCulture.org P.O. Box 582 Manassas, VA 20108 © Copyright Trinity Communications 2019 Book ID: LY20182019-V3-L-jmgmdb The chapters of this book appeared first on the Trinity Communications website, CatholicCulture.org. Our website includes many more Catholic materials, including daily news, commentary, liturgical year resources, Church documents, reviews, and collections of historic Catholic writings and references. You can also sign up for daily and weekly email newsletters. Trinity Communications is a non-profit corporation. If you would like to support our work, please register and contribute on the website; or mail a check or money order along with your email address to Trinity Communications, P.O. Box 582, Manassas, VA 20108, USA. We look forward to seeing you at www.catholicculture.org. Table of Contents Introduction to the Liturgical Year 6 Introduction to Lent 9 March 6th (Ash Wednesday) 12 March 7th (Optional Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs) 18 March 8th (Optional Memorial of St. John of God, religious ) 22 March 9th (Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious) 26 March 10th (First Sunday of Lent ) 31 March 11th (Monday of the First Week of Lent) 35 March 12th (Tuesday of the First Week of Lent) 40 March 13th (Wednesday of the First Week of Lent) 46 March 14th (Thursday of the First Week of Lent) 53 March 15th (Friday of the First Week of Lent) 58 March 16th (Saturday of the First Week of Lent) 62 March 17th (Second Sunday of Lent) 67 March 18th (Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor) 72 March 19th (Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 77 March 20th (Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent) 85 March 21st (Thursday of the Second Week of Lent) 89 March 22nd (Friday of the Second Week of Lent) 92 March 23rd (Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop) 97 March 24th (Third Sunday of Lent) 104 March 25th (Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord) 108 March 26th (Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent) 116 March 27th (Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent) 121 March 28th (Thursday of the Third Week of Lent) 125 March 29th (Friday of the Third Week of Lent) 129 March 30th (Saturday of the Third Week of Lent) 133 March 31st (Fourth Sunday of Lent) 137 April 1st (Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 142 April 2nd (Optional Memorial of St. Francis of Paola, hermit) 147 April 3rd (Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 150 April 4th (Optional Memorial of St. Isidore, bishop and doctor ) 155 April 5th (Optional Memorial of St. Vincent Ferrer, priest ) 158 April 6th (Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 162 April 7th (Fifth Sunday of Lent) 167 April 8th (Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 171 April 9th (Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 174 April 10th (Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 177 April 11th (Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop & martyr ) 180 April 12th (Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 184 April 13th (Optional Memorial of St. Martin I) 187 April 14th (Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion) 192 April 15th (Monday of Holy Week) 198 April 16th (Tuesday of Holy Week ) 202 April 17th (Wednesday of Holy Week) 205 The Sacred Triduum 209 April 18th (Holy Thursday) 210 April 19th (Good Friday) 217 April 20th (Holy Saturday — Easter Vigil) 223 LITURGICAL YEAR 2018-2019, VOL. 3 6 Introduction to the Liturgical Year The Church inculcates Christ and His mission through the patterns and rhythms of her Liturgical Year. She is herself the universal sacrament of salvation and the visible manifestation on earth of the presence of the Kingdom of God even now. But the Church also has various ministries and means by which she carries out her special mission. The Liturgical Year is perhaps the most important means she uses to sanctify the concept of time itself. During the course of the Liturgical Year, the saving actions of Christ are presented again to the Faithful in an effective spiritual sequence that provides occasions for deepening our experience of Christ, for giving scope to our need for fasts and feasts, penance and joy, the remission of sin and the foretaste of heavenly glory. The annual cycle invites us to live the Christian mysteries more deeply, to let the Christ-life seep into our very bones, and in so doing to transform and renew all human endeavors, all human culture. The backbone of the Liturgical Year is the Liturgical Calendar, an annual cycle of seasons and feasts which both commemmorate and invite us to more fully enter into the real history of our salvation. At the same time, the days devoted to the celebration of many of the Church’s saints provide us with inspiring models of what it means to exemplify the love and virtues which Our Lord and Savior so zealously wishes us to share. In this way, we may develop in and through time a heart like unto His own. On the CatholicCulture.org website, we have collected and organized a great many resources for helping all of us to live the Liturgical Year more consciously and more actively. In addition to the accounts of the nature, history and purposes of the great feasts, and of course the lives of the saints, we have brought together a wide variety of customs for celebrating the various seasons and feasts which have grown up in cultures throughout the world. And in connection with these customs, we have also collected appropriate prayers and devotions, family activities, and even receipes—the better to help us taste and see the glory of the Lord! (Ps 34:8) All of these resources are organized according to the Liturgical Calendar, and many of them are deliberately oriented toward use by the family, or what recent popes have referred to as the domestic church. The family is to be the Church in miniature, the first of all Christian communities, the warm embrace in which new souls are claimed for Christ and nourished in every way for His service. The family is also the source of the www.catholicculture.org LITURGICAL YEAR 2018-2019, VOL. 3 7 Church’s manifold vocations, including the vocations of those who dedicate themselves exclusively to Christ and the Church’s service as priests and religious. Thus, in every way, the Church public, the Church as a whole, the mystical body of Christ in its fulness, depends on the health and strength of the domestic church, even as she nourishes the domestic church through her presence, her sacraments, her counsel, her teaching—and, of course, her Liturgical Year. It is not possible in an eBook to reproduce the full richness and flexibility of these resources as they are presented on our website ( www.catholicculture.org). The visual displays of eBooks cannot, in most cases, equal those of web pages, and it is generally not as easy to follow the many links available to explore the full range of offerings. What we have done in the volumes of this series is to present the days of the Liturgical Year in sequence, grouped in their proper seasons, so that the user can follow the unfolding of the Liturgical Year with immediate access to the meaning of each day, complete with its spiritual and liturgical explanations, and its biographies of the saints. Following the basic presentation for each day are many links to additional information, prayers, activities and recipes which relate specifically to that day or the Season as a whole. These materials can be used with profit by anyone. However, if we were to offer specific advice to parents on how they may make the best use of all the resources in their own families, we would emphasize the following two points: First, remember that all of us, but especially children, grow spiritually when we have the opportunity to associate living examples, customs and activities with God’s love and saving power. This sort of participation helps children to learn the Faith along with their mother’s milk, so to speak—or, as we said above, to get it into their very bones. Children also need heroes, and one way or another they will find them. The saints make the best of all possible heroes. Second, avoid trying to do too much. Select carefully and emphasize a few things that you believe will work well in your situation. Keep your attitude joyful and relaxed. With a little judicious planning, let your family’s own customs grow and develop over time. Much of this will be carried on for generations to come, generations which trace their own faith to and through you. A word, finally, on the sources of much of the material presented both in this eBook and on the much larger web site. Many of these wonderful books are, sadly, out of print, but we owe a great debt to them. You may enjoy pursuing some of these sources on your own. The years listed are the original publication dates; some have gone through multiple editions. They include: www.catholicculture.org LITURGICAL YEAR 2018-2019, VOL. 3 8 Berger, Florence. Cooking for Christ (National Catholic Rural Life Conference) 1949 Burton, Katherine and Helmut Ripperger. The Feast Day Cookbook, 1951 Butler, Alban. Butler’s Lives of the Saints (updated since the 18th century, up to 12 volumes depending on edition) Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.