Daily Devotional: Apr 18 – Good Friday
SSPX Podcast
SSPX / Angelus Press
5 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It’s Good Friday, 1st class, with the color of black and violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s reflection from SSPX.org: “St. Cyril of Alexandria on Christ's Sacrifice,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- Forty Steps to Easter
- “ Cyril of Alexandria on Christ's Sacrifice” (FSSPX.news)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
- - - - - - -
We'd love your feedback on these Daily Devotionals! What do you like / not like, and what would you like us to add? [email protected]
- - - - - - -
Please Support this Apostolate with 1-time or Monthly Donation >>
- - - - - - -Explore more:
- Subscribe to the email version of this Devotional - it's a perfect companion!
- Subscribe to this Podcast to receive this and all our audio episodes
- Subscribe to the SSPX YouTube channel for video versions of our podcast series and Sermons
- FSSPX News Website: https://fsspx.news
- Visit the US District website: https://sspx.org/
- - - - -
What is the SSPX Podcast?
The SSPX Podcast is produced by Angelus Press, which has as its mission the fortification of traditional Catholics so that they can defend the Faith, and reaching out to those who have not yet found Tradition. https://sspx.orgTranscript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Friday, April 18th, 2025. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Good Friday, first class with the color of black and violet. |
| 0:08.0 | In this episode, the meditation 40 steps to Easter. |
| 0:11.0 | Today's reflection from SSpx.org, St. Cyril of Alexandria on Christ's sacrifice, |
| 0:17.0 | and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefevre. |
| 0:20.0 | But first the collect of today's Mass. |
| 0:22.6 | O God, who by the passion of thy Christ, our Lord, has loosened the bonds of death, |
| 0:28.6 | that heritage of the first sin to which all men of later times did succeed, |
| 0:32.6 | make us so conform to him that as we have borne the likeness of earthly nature, so we may, |
| 0:39.0 | by sanctification, bear the likeness of heavenly grace. |
| 0:44.0 | Today's meditation, forty steps to Easter, today's thought from the Gospel of John, and |
| 0:49.1 | bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. |
| 0:54.1 | Practice. |
| 0:54.9 | Keep perfect silence today from noon to 3 o'clock, thinking as much as possible about the dreadful, |
| 1:00.4 | yet glorious sufferings of Jesus who redeemed you. |
| 1:04.4 | Prayer. |
| 1:05.4 | We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world. |
| 1:11.1 | You can read more of these in the book, 40 Steps to Easter. |
| 1:13.9 | There's a link available in our show notes. |
| 1:17.4 | Today's reflection from spx.org, St. Cyril of Alexandria on Christ's sacrifice. |
| 1:23.6 | The following homily for Holy Week is the 150 second sermon of St. Cyril of Alexandria's commentary on Luke. |
| 1:30.4 | Honored in both Eastern and Western Christendom, St. Cyril was declared the Doctor Incarnation, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SSPX / Angelus Press, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of SSPX / Angelus Press and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.