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Happy Easter Season and Month of Mary!

We are now Joyfully in the Easter Season! Alleluia, Alleluia, He is Risen! The Month of May begins the month of Mary.  How does the month of Mary start...with St. Joseph! St. Joseph, the husband of Mary, foster father of Our Lord Jesus Christ!  Not much is said of St....

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Have a Blessed Triduum!

May you all have a very Blessed Triduum, leading up to the Easter Season! The summit of the Liturgical Year is the Easter Triduum—from the evening of Holy Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday. Though chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day...

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5th Sunday of Lent

Happy and Blessed 5th Sunday of Lent! While at the beginning Lent can look long, it seems to fly by!  We are already starting the 5th Sunday of Lent!  Next Sunday is Palm/Passion Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week! GOSPEL John 8:1-11 Jesus went to the Mount of...

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3rd week of Lent and the Annunciation!

Wow the 3rd week of Lent already! Responsorial Psalm Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 R. (8a and 9a) Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I,...

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2nd Sunday of Lent

Happy 2nd Sunday of Lent and Happy St. Patrick's Day! Responsorial Psalm Ps 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14. R. (1a) The Lord is my light and my salvation. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life's refuge; of whom should I be afraid? R....

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1st Sunday of Lent

Welcome to the 1st Sunday of Lent!  How is your Lent so far?  Mine is challenging to say the least, but I keep going for the Easter Season! I'm doing Psalms this time so here is the Responsorial Psalm for the 1st Sunday of Lent along with the Gospel!  When we read...

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Friday after Ash Wednesday

Responsorial Psalm Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19 R. (19b) A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me....

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Thursday of Lent

Responsorial Psalm Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 R. (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and...

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