Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional.

Today's Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, the Saturday of the second week of Lend, third class with the color of violet.

In this episode, the meditation 40 steps to Easter.

Today's news from the church, the Hungarian

Parliament, bands Gay Pride Barade, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

But first the collect of today's Mass. Grant that our fasting may be beneficial to us,

we beseech the O Lord, so that by chastising our flesh we may obtain strength for our souls.

Today we also remember St. Catherine of Sweden, daughter of St. Bridget, who was a saint in her own right.

Born around 332, Catherine was raised in a noble Swedish family, but her heart was set on God

from an early age.

At about the age of only 12 or 13, she married a young nobleman, Egbert Van Kieran,

but they made a mutual vow of chastity and lived together as brother and sister.

This is just one sign of their commitment to sacrifice the joys of this life to God.

She later followed her mother, St. Bridget, to Rome in 1349,

and soon after news came that her husband had died.

Catherine stayed by her mother's side, traveling with her across Europe,

including a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

No easy feat in that time.

After her mother's death, Catherine brought her body home to Sweden and became the head of the Bridgetine convent at Vodstina, where she helped shape the order her mother founded.

Later, she returned to Rome for five years, advocating for her mother's canonization,

and becoming close friends with another powerhouse saint, St. Catherine of Siena.

Catherine of Sweden died in 1381, and though she was never formally canonized due to the

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