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(LifeSiteNews) — Each Feria of Lent has a proper Mass; whereas, in Advent, the Mass of the preceding Sunday is repeated during the week. This richness of the Lenten liturgy is a powerful means for our entering into the Church’s spirit, since she hereby brings before us, under so many forms, the sentiments suited to this holy time.
From these Ferial Masses we intend giving for the respective days the Collect (which is always the principal prayer), the Epistle, the Gospel, and the prayer which is said “over the people” at the end of the Mass. All this will provide us with most solid instruction; and as the selections from the Bible, which are each day brought before us, are not only some of the finest of the Sacred Volume, but are moreover singularly appropriate to Lent – their attentive perusal will be productive of a twofold advantage.
At Rome, today’s station is in the church of Peter-ad-vincula. It was built in the fifth century by the Empress Eudoxia, wife of Valentinian III, and possesses the venerable relic of St. Peter’s Chains. We shall speak more
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