Daily Devotional: Mar 21 – St. Benedict / Fri of 2nd Wk of Lent
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
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Today is Friday, March 21, 2025, Friday of the 2nd Week of Lent with a commemoration of St. Benedict, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: “Forward to Benedict,” The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The Doctrina Apostolorum: Origin and Rediscovery,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- Forty Steps to Easter
- “The Doctrina Apostolorum: Origin and Rediscovery” (FSSPX.news)
- “Forward to Benedict” (SSPX.org)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional. |
| 0:05.3 | Today's Friday, March 21st, 2025, the Friday of the second week of Lent, with a commemoration |
| 0:09.9 | of St. Benedict, third class with the color of violet. |
| 0:13.3 | In this episode, Forward to Benedict. |
| 0:16.0 | The meditation, 40 Steps to Easter. |
| 0:18.6 | Today's news from the church, the doctrina apostolorum, origin, and rediscovery, |
| 0:23.3 | and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefevre. |
| 0:27.1 | But first the call act of today's Mass. May the intercession of the blessed abbot Benedict |
| 0:32.3 | commend us to thee, O Lord, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. |
| 0:40.2 | The following is an excerpt from the article which is produced today on SSPX.org called Forward to Benedict. |
| 0:47.0 | At the end of the first five centuries, much had been accomplished. |
| 0:51.3 | The heroic stories of the martyrdom of the early Christians are still read |
| 0:55.0 | by Catholics today. Yet those ages have other stories, of the great monks who had given |
| 1:00.6 | the personal example of lives of self-abignation, austerity, poverty, erudition, oratory, |
| 1:06.6 | and scholarship, all for the edification of a pagan world. No student of history discounts their |
| 1:13.2 | sanctity, their simplicity, or their imitation of Christ. Yet never was the world in a more |
| 1:19.8 | deplorable condition than it was at the end of those first five centuries. All historians |
| 1:25.5 | portray the confusion, the corruption, and despair. In morals, in law, |
| 1:30.8 | in science, and in art, all was in ruin. The followers of Christianity were hopelessly divided |
| 1:37.0 | by heresy, and throughout the whole Roman Empire, there was not an emperor, king, prince, or ruler |
| 1:43.1 | who was not a pagan, Aryan, or a Eutyan. |
| 1:47.5 | Italy had been ravished by Elyric and Attila. In the east, Basilicus had appointed 500 |
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