Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional.

Today's Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, the Feast of the Annunciation, with a commemoration of the Lenten Faria,

first class with the color of white.

In this episode, the Annunciation, according to the fathers of the church.

The meditation 40 steps to Easter.

Today's news from the church, Pope Francis encyclical on the

sacred heart, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev. But first, the collact of today's

Mass, O God, who didst will that thy word should take flesh at the message of an angel in the

womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant to thy suppliant people that we who believe her to be truly the mother of God

may be helped by her intercession with thee.

And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named

Nazareth to a virgin espouse to a man whose name was Joseph of the

house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. Today we'll look at the enunciation, according to the

fathers of the church. First, a collection of wisdom regarding the mission of the archangel Gabriel.

From St. Basil, the heavenly spirits visit us, not as it seems fit to them,

but as the occasion conduces to our advantage, for they are ever looking upon the glory and the

fullness of the divine wisdom. St. Gregory the Great says, to the Virgin Mary was sent not any one of

the angels, but the Archangel Gabriel.

For upon this service it was meet that the highest angel should come as being the bearer

of the highest of all tidings. He is therefore marked by a particular name to signify what was

his effectual part in the work. For Gabriel is interpreted as the strength of God.

By the strength of God then was he to be announced, who was coming as the God of strength and

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