These Forty Days
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 11 years ago -A Lenten Journey
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View from the Domestic Church: Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa
January 11, 2013 15:36View from the Domestic Church: Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa
Living Water: Thirst Asks for Nothing Less
February 23, 2012 02:20Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10 Another Lent begins and this year (as many years), I am giving up soda. I have a real love-hate relationship with Coca-Cola. It’s the only soda I like to drink, but I also know it’s bad for me: the caffeine, the calories (I can’t abide by diet, so no help there) and how it just leaves me thirsty. Yet when I’m dehydrated, t...
Father Augustine's Homily for Ash Wednesday
February 22, 2012 16:09Father Augustine Measures, OSB is a priest of the Ampleforth Community. He shepherds the people of St. Mary's and St. Benedict's in Bamber Bridge near Preston in Lancashire, England.
“Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.”
February 22, 2012 04:01Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived her life to satiate the thirst of Jesus on the Cross. In serving the poorest of the poor, she wholeheartedly lived the message in the Gospel of Matthew 25:40, “Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.” Because she did, each person she encountered was Jesus to her. She served Jesus within everyone whom God put within her reach from the ones she rescued from the gutters of Calcutta, India to Bl. Pope John Paul II. To do this, she fu...
Pope's Lenten Message: "We Must Not Remain Silent Before Evil" "We Must Not Remain Silent Before Evil" We Must Not Remain Silent Before Evil
February 21, 2012 18:48"Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works" (Heb 10:24) Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity. This is a favourable time to renew our journey of faith, both as individuals and as a community, with the help of the word of God and the sacraments. This journey is one marked by prayer and sharing, silence and fasting, in anticipation of the joy of Easter. T...
The Last Seven Words...
April 10, 2009 18:08A lovely gift sent to us by Father Augustine: THE SEVEN WORDS OF JESUS ON THE CROSS Jesus died on the Cross to redeem mankind, to save us from our sins, because he loves us. He was mocked, scorned, and tortured in the praetorium; carried his cross up the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem to Calvary, nailed to the Cross, hung between two common criminals, and suffered an indescribable end. When religious pilgrimages to the Holy Land were prevented by military occupation of Jerusalem, a popular dev...
TFD Episode #6:: Surrender with Deacon Tom, Part 6
April 06, 2009 22:32Surrender - To the Cross. Your Cross. Many thanks to Deacon Tom Fox for providing us these beautiful reflections. Thank you for joining us each Lenten Monday, we hope that you have been abundantly blessed by this Lent's reflections. Remember, you can also download these podcasts via iTunes. Deacon Tom Fox was ordained by Archbishop Charles Chaput into the Diocese of Denver. He worked in a mountain town parish at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thousands of tourists and visi...
TFD Episode #5:: Surrender with Deacon Tom, Part 5
March 30, 2009 14:35Surrender - To the Father, Like a Child Many thanks to Deacon Tom Fox for providing us these beautiful reflections. Join us each Lenten Monday for another installment in our 2009 series "Surrender". You can also download these podcasts via iTunes. Deacon Tom Fox was ordained by Archbishop Charles Chaput into the Diocese of Denver. He worked in a mountain town parish at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thousands of tourists and visitors came to his parish as they vacationed in...
TFD Special: Father Augustine on the Luminous Mysteries
March 26, 2009 13:54Father Augustine again discusses the luminous mysteries. I have also linked the paper which Father provided to his attendees
The Annunciation
March 25, 2009 14:16Many thanks to Fr. Augustine Measures, OSB for this beautiful homily on this holy day!
Splinters form the Cross
March 24, 2009 12:03By Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle “Grant, Lord, that your faithful may become partakers in your passion through their sufferings in this life, so that the fruits of your salvation may be made manifest in them,” we read in the Divine Office. When recently discussing a painful ordeal with a dear friend, we reminisced about our meeting each other over twenty years ago. She was pregnant with her first child, and I with my second. We recalled how we had helped each other throughout our difficult pre...
TFD Episode #4:: Surrender with Deacon Tom, Part 4
March 23, 2009 13:52Surrender - No Matter What Many thanks to Deacon Tom Fox for providing us these beautiful reflections. Join us each Lenten Monday for another installment in our 2009 series "Surrender". You can also download these podcasts via iTunes. Deacon Tom Fox was ordained by Archbishop Charles Chaput into the Diocese of Denver. He worked in a mountain town parish at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thousands of tourists and visitors came to his parish as they vacationed in and around t...
TFD Episode #3:: Surrender with Deacon Tom, Part 3
March 18, 2009 13:44Surrender is Love Many thanks to Deacon Tom Fox for providing us these beautiful reflections. Join us each Lenten Monday for another installment in our 2009 series "Surrender". You can also download these podcasts via iTunes. Deacon Tom Fox was ordained by Archbishop Charles Chaput into the Diocese of Denver. He worked in a mountain town parish at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thousands of tourists and visitors came to his parish as they vacationed in and around the Contin...
A Mother's Faith-filled Life in Imitation of Our Blessed Mother
March 14, 2009 14:49Here's an excerpt from the first chapter, "The Foyer: Our Blessed Mother Mary and Motherhood" from my book, The Domestic Church: Room by Room: A Mother's Study Guide to ponder this week of Lent... "Thoughts to Ponder... If Mary, who was the Mother of God, can be his handmaid, taking delight in serving others, I can certainly strive to be a handmaid, too. Within my vocation of motherhood I will find a deep and lasting peace when I become intimately united to Christ while striving to be...
Scriptural Stations Meditations - Fourteenth Station
March 10, 2009 16:18Jesus is Placed in the Tomb We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it [in] clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the...
Lenten Strategies; Listening, Not Looking
March 10, 2009 12:03By Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle We are constantly searching for signs and wonders, never satisfied, always looking, seldom quiet or still enough to listen. Pope Benedict said, “As long as we live in the world, our relationship with God consists more in listening than in seeing; and even contemplation comes about, so to say, with eyes closed and thanks to the inner light lit within us by the Word of God.” He said, “Human life is, in fact, a journey of faith and as such, progresses more in the ...
Total Consecration:: Week 1, Day 6 - Self Knowledge
March 10, 2009 12:03Today's readings followed by Litany of the Holy Spirit, Litany of Loreto, and Ave Maris Stella. Luke 17:1-10 (NAB) He said to his disciples, "Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you ...
TFD Episode #2:: Surrender with Deacon Tom, Part 2
March 10, 2009 11:41Many thanks to Deacon Tom Fox for providing us these beautiful reflections. Join us each Lenten Monday for another installment in our 2009 series "Surrender". You can also download these podcasts via iTunes. Deacon Tom Fox was ordained by Archbishop Charles Chaput into the Diocese of Denver. He worked in a mountain town parish at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thousands of tourists and visitors came to his parish as they vacationed in and around the Continental Divide. Fre...
Scriptural Stations Meditations - Thirteenth Station
March 09, 2009 16:11Jesus Dies on the Cross We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. [I]n order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst." So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, ...
Total Consecration:: Week 1, Day 5 - Self Knowledge
March 09, 2009 11:58Today's readings followed by Litany of the Holy Spirit, Litany of Loreto, and Ave Maris Stella. True Devotion To the Blessed Virgin Mary, No. 228 Of Judgment, and the Punishment of Sinners In all things look to the end; and how thou wilt stand before that strict Judge (Heb. 10:31) to whom nothing is hid, who is not appeased with gifts, nor admitteth excuses, but will judge according to right. O wretched and foolish sinner, who sometimes art in terror at...
Scriptural Stations Meditations - Twelfth Station
March 08, 2009 16:08Jesus Speaks to His Mother and the Disciple We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. ~John 19:...
Total Consecration:: Week 1, Day 4 - Self Knowledge
March 08, 2009 11:56Today's readings followed by Litany of the Holy Spirit, Litany of Loreto and Ave Maris Stella. From True Devotion To the Blessed Virgin Mary, No. 228 Preparatory Exercises During the first week they should offer up all their prayers and acts of devotion to acquire knowledge of themselves and sorrow for their sins. Let them perform all their actions in a spirit of humility. With this end in view they may, if they wish, meditate on what I ...
Scriptural Stations Meditations - Eleventh Station
March 07, 2009 17:05Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us." The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, "Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has do...
Total Consecration:: Week 1, Day 3 - Self Knowledge
March 07, 2009 12:50Today's readings followed by Litany of the Holy Spirit, Litany of Loreto and Ave Maris Stella. Luke 13:1-5 (NAB) At that time some people who were present there told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those...
Scriptural Stations Meditations - Tenth Station
March 06, 2009 16:59Jesus is Crucified We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left. [Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do."] The people stood by and watched; the rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him and said, "He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Messiah of God." Even the...