Daily Devotional: Mar 31 – Mon. of 4th Week of Lent
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today is Monday, March 31, 2025, Monday of the 4th Week of Lent, 3rd class, with the color of violet. In this episode: The meditation: “Forty Steps to Easter,” today’s news from the Church: “The Suffering Continues in Sudan,”a preview of the Sermon: “How to Rejoice Always,”and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- Forty Steps to Easter
- “The Suffering Continues in Sudan” (FSSPX.news)
- “How to Rejoice Always” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional. |
| 0:07.2 | Today's Monday, March 31st, 2025, the Monday of the fourth week of Lent, third class with |
| 0:12.4 | the color of violet. |
| 0:13.8 | In this episode, The Meditation, 40 Steps to Easter. |
| 0:16.8 | Today's news from the church, the suffering continues in Sudan. |
| 0:20.5 | A preview of the sermon, How to Rejoice Always, and today's news from the church, the suffering continues in Sudan, a preview of the sermon, How to Rejoice Always, |
| 0:23.8 | and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. |
| 0:27.2 | But first, the call act of today's Mass. |
| 0:29.7 | Grant we beseech you, Almighty God, |
| 0:31.9 | that we who devoutly keep the sacred observances year by year |
| 0:35.1 | may be pleasing to you both in body and in soul. |
| 0:39.8 | In the early four hundreds, Christianity in Persia was finally seeing a peaceful stretch, |
| 0:45.2 | about 12 years of calm, thanks to King Isdegerdes, the son of Sapport the third. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm saying those names as if you should know exactly who they are. I don't, I barely |
| 0:56.0 | even know how to pronounce the names. So, anyway, I'm learning along with you. But things |
| 1:01.3 | took a dramatic turn after this 12-year period when a bishop named Abdis, perhaps got a little |
| 1:07.3 | too fired up. He burned down a Zoroastrian temple, and it didn't go over well. |
| 1:13.3 | In response, King Isdegerdas ordered Christian churches across the land destroyed and kicked off a harsh new persecution. |
| 1:20.7 | When he died, his son Varanis took things even further, unleashing terrifying cruelty on believers. |
| 1:27.3 | Among those caught in this new storm was |
| 1:29.2 | St. Benjamin, a deacon who'd already spent a year in prison. He was released thanks to an ambassador's |
| 1:36.0 | promise that Benjamin would stop preaching, but Benjamin couldn't make that promise. As he put it, |
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