The saint for this day’s Memorial in the Liturgy of the Hours is St. Margaret of Scotland. A Catholic Queen who used her might for the Church. Saint Margaret of Scotland Optional Memorial Optional memorial, 1969 Calendar, celebration November 16. St. Margaret of Scotland was probably born about 1045 …
When you see Psalm 55 in the Office of Readings of Liturgy of the Hours, you’d recognize immediately it’s speaking of the lament of Jesus Christ for his traitor Judas Iscariot. This goes on to our present time – we also know some people who are supposed to ‘Friends’ to …
This day, the Liturgy of the Hours remembers the Martyrs because of the Memorial for St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr. Psalm 44 painfully describes the misfortunes of God’s people. I We heard with our own ears, O God, our fathers have told us the story of the things you …
Because our world has become hedonistic and pleasure-loving, suffering, whether financially, physically, or any sort, is never seen as any good, but just the most horrible and the worst that could a person experience. “Perhaps he is punished by God.” – according to Born Again ‘Christians’, who measure blessings with …
My real conversion started with the Liturgy of the Hours, a.k.a. The Divine Office / Breviary / Canonical Hours. (I like the sound of the Divine Office better, and Breviary sounds more traditional… but I first encountered and remembered this public form of prayer with “Liturgy of the Hours” so …
That’s what you only think so on these tough times. When we are almost crushed by our sufferings, or people have done horrible things to us, experiencing injustice, and we couldn’t lean on anyone else, we call on God to cry out for help and pray. But the problem is …
When I was a child, I always had to memorize the Threefold Missions of Jesus Christ – Priestly, Prophetic, Kingly. I pleasantly find out, in the Evening Prayer for this Easter Tuesday, that early on in Psalm 110 is one of the most important psalms, as early on, it had …
The famous Psalm 42 is in the Morning Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours for this day: I thirst for God. Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God. My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my …
There’s an Optional Memorial for Saint Casimir today. Saint Casimir, pray for us. Saint Casimir, son of the king of Poland, was born in 1458. He practiced the Christian virtues with special regard to chastity and kindness to the poor and was zealous in the faith, particularly in his …
They say nobody’s perfect. But that’s false. For being Roman Catholics, like the Psalm below, we get the chance to be one. Psalm 26 Give judgment for me, O Lord: for I walk the path of perfection. I trust in the Lord; I have not wavered. Examine me, Lord, and …
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