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March 4, 2025

Father Jeffrey Kirby: Step Into the Mystery of Lent

By Father Jeffrey Kirby, National Catholic Register - St. Luke tells us that after his baptism, the Lord Jesus was “filled with the Holy Spirit … and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil” (4:1-2). The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the Lord’s time in the desert: “The Gospels speak of a time of solitude for Jesus in the desert immediately after his baptism by John. Driven by the Spirit into the desert, Jesus remains there for forty days without eating; he lives among wild beasts, and angels minister to him” (538).

March 4, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: We Have Left Everything and Followed You

Servants of the Word, source: dailyscripture.net, author Don Schwager - Mark 10:28-31 - 28 Peter began to say to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you." 29 Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many that are first will be last, and the last first."

March 4, 2025

Ralph Martin Emphasizes Danger of Heretical Cardinals Taking Part in the Next Papal Conclave, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews - Author and seminary professor Dr. Ralph Martin highlighted in a recent video the danger of the participation of heretical cardinals — like Robert McElroy — in the next papal conclave... Last week, Dr. Martin pointed to an article by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, in which the orthodox bishop called out the heresy of certain prelates and warned that such heresy incurs automatic excommunication.

March 4, 2025

The Color Purple: The Hue Reflects the Reason Behind the Penitential Season, by Jack Figge

By Jack Figge, National Catholic Register - As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season... For 40 days every Lenten season, purple linens adorn the altar, and priests don violet chasubles for Mass and Stations of the Cross services. Behind the practices, traditions and liturgies of Lent are a wealth of spiritual traditions and theological reasons for this 40-day spiritual journey that Catholics enter into as a period of fasting and penance to prepare to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord.