This week on the SSPX podcast, we'll be sharing the parish mission from St. Vincent, DePaul's

in Kansas City, as it was delivered in 2004. Today, on Passion Tuesday, we'll be hearing from

Father Helmlet's Leviades on the topic of sacrifice and offering, seen through the lens

of St. Mary Magdalene, St. John, and the sorrowful mother. If you would like to hear more

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And next week, we'll have another series of meditations on the passion of our Lord for Holy Week.

Now we'll turn to the Tuesday evening mission from Father Libyates.

Thank you. Now we'll turn to the Tuesday evening mission from Father Libyates. I'm the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Tonight I'd like to draw nearer to the cross.

You'd like to speak of three persons that we find at the foot of the cross.

One is St. Mary Magdalene, another is St. John.

And of course, the third one is the sorrowful mother.

And these three figures show us three different kinds of love.

We see them all following our blessed Lord. And that took courage. And we only are really

prepared to suffer for something that we love.

A woman who is giving birth to a child will go through intense agony for the one that she loves.

The same woman will spend many hours, sleepless nights, tending that sick child whom she loves,

with no thought for herself.

A man will lay down his life for his family,

to defend his children and to defend his wife whom he loves.

Our Lord himself said, greater love, no man has,

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