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Liturgical Year 2019-2020, Vol. 3 Liturgical Year 2019-2020, Vol. 3 Lent by Jennifer Gregory Miller and Darden Brock (editors) Third of six volumes encompassing the 2019-2020 Catholic liturgical year, covering all the days of Lent. Trinity Communications CatholicCulture.org P.O. Box 582 Manassas, VA 20108 © Copyright Trinity Communications 2020 Book ID: LY20192020-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 February 26th (Ash Wednesday) 12 February 27th (Thursday After Ash Wednesday) 18 February 28th (Friday After Ash Wednesday) 23 February 29th (Saturday after Ash Wednesday) 28 March 1st (First Sunday of Lent) 31 March 2nd (Monday of the First Week of Lent) 36 March 3rd (Tuesday of the First Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin (USA)) 41 March 4th (Wednesday of the First Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland ) 47 March 5th (Thursday of the First Week of Lent) 53 March 6th (Friday of the First Week of Lent) 57 March 7th (Saturday of the First Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs) 61 March 8th (Second Sunday of Lent) 65 March 9th (Monday of the Second Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious) 70 March 10th (Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent; Feast of St. John Ogilvie, priest and martyr (Scotland)) 75 March 11th (Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent) 83 March 12th (Thursday of the Second Week of Lent) 88 March 13th (Friday of the Second Week of Lent) 94 March 14th (Saturday of the Second Week of Lent) 97 March 15th (Third Sunday of Lent ) 102 March 16th (Monday of the Third Week of Lent) 107 March 17th (Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor (Solemnity Aus, Ire, Feast New Zeal, Scot, Wales)) 112 March 18th (Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor) 118 March 19th (Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 124 March 20th (Friday of the Third Week of Lent) 132 March 21st (Saturday of the Third Week of Lent) 136 March 22nd (Fourth Sunday of Lent) 139 March 23rd (Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop) 145 March 24th (Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 152 March 25th (Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord) 156 March 26th (Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 165 March 27th (Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 170 March 28th (Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent) 173 March 29th (Fifth Sunday of Lent) 177 March 30th (Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 182 March 31st (Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 186 April 1st (Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 190 April 2nd (Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Francis of Paola, hermit) 195 April 3rd (Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent) 199 April 4th (Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent; Optional Memorial of St. Isidore, bishop and doctor ) 204 April 5th (Palm Sunday) 208 April 6th (Monday of Holy Week) 214 April 7th (Tuesday of Holy Week ) 218 April 8th (Wednesday of Holy Week) 221 April 9th (Holy Thursday) 225 April 10th (Good Friday) 232 April 11th (Holy Saturday — Easter Vigil) 238 LITURGICAL YEAR 2019-2020, 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 2019-2020, 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.
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