Daily Devotional: Apr 7 – Mon. of Passion Week
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today is Monday, April 7, 2025, Monday in Passion Week, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “Myanmar: Army Fuels Chaos After Earthquake,” a preview of the Sermon: “What the Shroud Teaches Us About Our Lord's Passion,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- Forty Steps to Easter
- “Myanmar: Army Fuels Chaos After Earthquake” (FSSPX.news)
- “What the Shroud Teaches Us About Our Lord's Passion” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional. |
| 0:04.8 | Today's Monday, April 7th, 2025, the Monday in Passion Week, third class with a color of violet. |
| 0:10.5 | In this episode, The Meditation, 40 Steps to Easter. |
| 0:13.9 | Today's news from the church, Myanmar. |
| 0:16.4 | Army fuels chaos after earthquake. |
| 0:18.6 | A preview of today's sermon sermon what the shroud teaches us about |
| 0:21.2 | our Lord's passion, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. |
| 0:27.1 | But first the call-act of today's Mass, O Lord, we beseech thee, make holy our fasting, |
| 0:33.1 | and graciously lavish upon us forgiveness for all our sins. Let's look at a saint for the day. |
| 0:40.3 | Actually, it was the saint for yesterday. |
| 0:42.3 | In a time when heresies were flying fast and far across the church, |
| 0:47.3 | Pope St. Celestine I was a rock of clarity and courage. |
| 0:51.3 | Born in Rome, he was unanimously elected Pope in 422, not an easy feat in those |
| 0:56.5 | politically charged days, and he wasted no time getting to work. Right out of the gate, |
| 1:02.1 | Celestine tackled church discipline and doctrine. He confirmed the condemnation of a scandal-ridden |
| 1:07.5 | African bishop and corrected abuses in the churches of Gaul, one of his |
| 1:11.9 | most compassionate and enduring directives that no dying person, no matter how sinful, should ever be |
| 1:18.8 | denied absolution if they sincerely repented. He knew what mattered was the heart and the intention, |
| 1:26.4 | not the clock. |
| 1:30.5 | But it's his battle with heresy that really stands out. |
| 1:36.1 | When the controversial preacher Nestorius started claiming that Christ had two separate persons, |
| 1:40.1 | divine and human, Celestine called it what it was, blasphemy. |
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