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(LifeSiteNews) — The station for today is in the celebrated Basilica St. Mary’s across the Tiber. It was consecrated in the third century under the pontificate of St. Callixtus, and was the first church built in Rome in honor of Our Blessed Lady.
COLLECT
Grant us, we beseech thee, Lord, the assistance of thy ice; that whilst we duly ply ourselves to fasting and prayer, we may be delivered from all enemies both of soul and body. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
EPISTLE
Lesson from the Prophet Jeremias 17:5-10.
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come; but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert, in a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, and spreadeth out its roots towards moisture; and it shall not fear
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