The Stations of the Cross are a traditional devotion for Lent, especially for Holy Week, which we can do as a community or privately at home. Here's a recording of Stations of the Cross recorded at the chapel at Blackfriars, Cambridge led by Sr Philomena Benedict and assisted by Br Aloysius. Music composed and performed by Sr Cecilia Bernadette. Reflection and prayers by St Alphonsus Liguori.
Sr. Ann Catherine Swailes o.p
The signs of contradiction everywhere.
Seed pods in high boughs roost, as last year’s leaves
Rattle their small deaths, and berries cling
Withered to blunted thorns, like jellied pearls
Of blood, flung by the ebb of life.
Sr. Mary Magdalene, O.P. STL introduces the 'Thomistic Studies' website.
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by Sr Mary Felix
Reflection for the third Sunday of Lent Year B John 2: 13 – 16
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business. And making a whip of cords he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the Temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for thy house will consume me.’
by Sr Mary Jadwiga Swiatecka
First Reading: Abraham and Isaac Gospel: Mark 9:2-9: The Transfiguration.
Now, according to Mr. Google, there are 7 significant mountains in the Bible. The first mentioned is Mt. Ararat, which is where Noah’s ark came to ground after the flood, and where God made His pact with Noah, that there would be no more floods, the sign being a rainbow. The second, Mt. Moriah, was where – as in tomorrow’s first reading - Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac, but the angel of God prevented him from so doing. The third is Mt. Sinai, on which God gave the commandments to Moses, and at the foot of which the Israelites built their Golden Calf. The fourth, Mt. Pisgah, or Nebo, less well remembered, is the peak from which Moses had a peep at the land which God was to give to the Israelites as their homeland and which Moses was debarred from entering.The fifth is Mt. Carmel, where Elijah had his contest with the priests of the temple, when his soaked wood caught fire, theirs having failed to do so.
