Daily Devotional: Apr 30 – S. Catherine of Siena
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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It’s the Feast of St. Catherine of Sienna, 3rd class, with the color of white. In this episode: The meditation: “The Legacy of St. Catherine,” today’s news from the Church: “Freemasons Pay Tribute to Francis,” a preview of the Sermon: “The Mystery of Easter,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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- “Freemasons Pay Tribute to Francis” (FSSPX.news)
- “The Mystery of Easter” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. |
| 0:10.9 | It's the Feast of St. Catherine of Sienna, third class with the color of white. |
| 0:14.6 | In this episode, The Meditation, the Legacy of St. Catherine. |
| 0:17.9 | Today's news from the church. |
| 0:19.3 | Freemasons pay tribute to Francis, a preview of today's |
| 0:22.4 | sermon, the mystery of Easter, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. But first, |
| 0:28.6 | the collect of today's Mass. Grant we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we which do keep the |
| 0:34.9 | birthday of thy blessed Virgin Catherine, and do year by year renew her |
| 0:39.0 | memorial with solemn gladness in thy presence, may likewise be conformed to the pattern of her |
| 0:44.3 | saintly walk with thee. |
| 0:47.4 | Today's meditation, the legacy of St. Catherine. |
| 0:50.9 | Despite her own marvelous gifts of mysticism, miracles, and ecstasies, Catherine never lost track of what she calls the ordinary way to sanctity. |
| 1:01.2 | In her writings, the dialogue, St. Catherine explains that there's a bridge uniting heaven and earth. |
| 1:07.8 | Growing in virtue by faithfully performing one's duty of state is the ordinary way |
| 1:12.1 | to pass from earth to heaven across the bridge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Open your eyes and |
| 1:18.3 | look within me and you will see the dignity and beauty of my reasoning creature. Thus God spoke to |
| 1:24.4 | St. Catherine as recorded in her dialogue. This is one of the greatest treasures of St. Catherine, as recorded in her dialogue. |
| 1:31.2 | This is one of the greatest treasures of St. Catherine's spiritual legacy. |
| 1:36.5 | Our rationality is the image and likeness of God in our souls. |
| 1:42.0 | It is our eternal soul, able to know and love, which makes us like God. |
| 1:48.2 | Our Lord revealed to St. Catherine that meditating on the infinite wisdom of God reveals the true glory and beauty of the human soul, because our rationality is the very image and likeness |
| 1:55.5 | of God. |
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