The First Sunday of Lent — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Matthew
At that time Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming said to him: ‘If […]
A Meditation for the Feast of the Flight into Egypt
N.B. February 17th was listed as the Mass of the Flight of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Egypt as a Mass for particular places in pre-1962 Missals. It is remembered presently in the Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows (Day 2), Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos (Sixth Chant), and is an important minor feast in the Coptic Church as the Feast of […]
