Today is Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent with a commemoration of St. Francis of Paola, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The German Church Has Lost Four Million Faithful in 10 Years,” a preview of the Sermon: “God Works through Human Instruments,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Tuesday, April 1, 2025, Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The Vatican Does Not Want to Be Left Out of Ukraine,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Monday, March 31, 2025, Monday of the 4th Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The Suffering Continues in Sudan,”a preview of the Sermon: “How to Rejoice Always,”and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Sunday, March 30, 2025, Laetare Sunday, 2nd class, with the color of rose or violet. In this episode: Not Losing Our Lenten Zeal, The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “On the Front Line of Life: Treatment of a Child in Utero,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Saturday, March 29, 2025, Saturday of the 3rd Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet.
In this episode: The meditations: “The Mother of Mercy,” and “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The Resigning Prefect of the Liturgy Speaks Out,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Today in the Catholic Mass Series, we explore the importance, the history, and the controversies surrounding sacred art. What is the purpose of religious art? Through the centuries, have artists been successful in meeting this purpose? Why are religious icons in the East so vastly different from Western religious images? Is one better than the other? Further, we examine what art should and shouldn’t be in churches. Can art be too distracting? Should we instead focus on the Mass, not the decoration? And finally we discuss the future of good Catholic Art and how to achieve it.
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Today is Friday, March 28, 2025, Friday of the 3rd Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” a preview of this week’s episode of The Catholic Mass #29: “The Splendor and Controversy of Sacred Art”, and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Thursday, March 27, 2025, Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent with commemoration of St. John Damascene, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” a preview of the Sermon: “Second-Chance Graces,” today’s news from the Church: “Catholicism’s Modest Presence in Greenland,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Wednesday, March 26, 2025, Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” a preview of the Sermon: “The Heart of Lent,” today’s news from the Church: “Shigemi Fukahori, Nagasaki Survivor, Dies at 93,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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Today is Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the Feast of the Annunciation, with a commemoration of the Lenten Feria, 1st class, with the color of white. In this episode: The Annunciation According to the Fathers of the Church, The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Sacred Heart,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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