Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional.

Today's Thursday, March 6th, the Thursday after Ash Wednesday, with a commemoration

of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, third class with the color of violet.

In this episode, the meditation, the Thursday after Ash Wednesday.

A preview of the sermon, penance that leads to God.

Today's news from the church, neither schismatic nor excommunicated, part two,

and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

But first, the call-act of today's Mass.

O God, who by sin are defended and by penance appeased,

mercifully regard the prayers of thy suppliant people,

and turn aside the scourges of thine anger which we deserve for our sins.

So imagine being 22 years old, a young noble woman, a new mother, and facing death simply

for refusing to deny your faith.

That was Perpetua.

She lived in Carthage, North Africa, at a time when being a Christian could get you killed.

Her father, a pagan, begged her to renounce her beliefs.

He loved her. He wanted to save her, but Perpetua stood firm.

Do you see this water pot, she once told him?

Can it be called by any other name than what it is?

So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am,

a Christian. For that, she was thrown into prison. It was filthy, overcrowded, and brutally hot,

and the guards were cruel. But her greatest pain, worrying about her infant son. When she was

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