Daily Devotional: Mar 30 – Laetare Sunday
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🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today is Sunday, March 30, 2025, Laetare Sunday, 2nd class, with the color of rose or violet. In this episode: Not Losing Our Lenten Zeal, The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “On the Front Line of Life: Treatment of a Child in Utero,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- From Epiphany to Lent (Angelus Press)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional. |
| 0:06.3 | Today's Sunday, March 30th, 2025, Laitare Sunday, second class with the color of rose or violet. |
| 0:12.5 | In this episode, Not Losing Our Lent and Zeal. |
| 0:15.8 | The meditation 40 steps to Easter. |
| 0:18.2 | Today's news from the church on the front line of life, treatment of a child |
| 0:22.0 | in utero, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefevre. But first the collect of today's |
| 0:28.7 | Mass. Grant we beseech the Almighty God that we who justly suffer for our sins may find relief |
| 0:34.7 | in the help of thy grace. |
| 0:38.3 | Not losing our Lent and Zeal. |
| 0:40.3 | It is altogether commonplace for Christians to lose their zeal on or around the midpoint of Lent. |
| 0:46.3 | Even with the churches dialed down fasting and abstinence requirements, Catholics can still come to find these prescriptions to be an undue burden that is out of sync |
| 0:55.0 | with the contemporary world. Moreover, while many Roman Catholics start lent with additional resolutions, |
| 1:00.9 | such as attending more church services or refraining from some other pleasure like alcohol, TV, |
| 1:06.3 | types of foods, and so forth, these commitments, too, fall to the wayside over the course of the 40 days. |
| 1:12.4 | Some may come to feel that if they have slipped in any way during the first half of Lent, |
| 1:17.3 | then there's really no point in continuing forward. The Lenton season is then just chalked up as a loss. |
| 1:23.1 | Recalling that Laitare Sunday was once the beginning of Lent in Rome, Catholics dissatisfied with |
| 1:28.5 | their Lent thus far, or who are at risk of abandoning the spirit of penance, humility, and |
| 1:33.9 | love that the season calls for, should use this Sunday as an opportunity to renew their journey |
| 1:39.7 | with our Lord to the cross. |
| 1:42.3 | Sins committed should be confessed. Penitential church services |
| 1:45.8 | from now until Easter are still available, and the practice of fasting and abstinence, |
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