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Saturday of the first week of Lent: Eternal Father, please allow us to turn our hearts toward You and always seek our needs, perform acts of charity, and devote ourselves to Your worship. Through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, He lives and reigns with you forever in union with God the Holy Spirit.
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it is Remaining Saturdays of Lent Or Spring Embertide. For more information, see Modern Observations on Ember Day and Lenten Ember Day.
traditional Today’s Station Church is located in St. Peter’s Basilica. In this Vatican cathedral, priestly ordination ceremonies used to take place on Ember Saturday (or early Sunday morning after a long wake). The 1962 Missal includes three additional precepts that are remnants of those previously read at night. The first reading of Deuteronomy 26:16-19 in the current Bible Dictionary is one of his earlier readings from the Missal.
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Meditations on the Liturgy – Spring Ember Day
According to church tradition, the first week of Lent is the week of Spring Ember Day. Ember Day is a tradition of the Roman Church in particular, and some of its roots are found in the Old Testament. For example, the prophet Zechariah testifies to fasting for each season of the year. It is also partly in the pagan Roman tradition of festivals. In our time, we still remember the time of sowing and what the harvest looks like. So we have this wonderful combination of creation and Biblical history, and this combination is a sign of true Catholicism. In the celebration of these days, we receive a year from God’s hands, we receive time from our Creator and Savior, we surrender our sowing and harvest to His mercy, we honor Him with the fruits of the earth and our works. will be grateful to. The celebration of Ember Day corresponds to the fact that “the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19). That is, through our prayers, creation enters the Eucharist and participates in its glorification. God.
However, in the 5th century, the Day of Embers took on another aspect and became the feast of the Church’s spiritual harvest, the feast of holy orders. This arrangement of his three-day resident church is very important. Wednesday, Feast of St. Mary. Friday, Church of the Twelve Apostles. Saturday, St. Peter’s Cathedral. On the first day, the Church bestowed ordination on Our Lady directly into the Church. When meditating on this action, the 3rd century Marian prayer “Sub tuum praesidium confugemus” (We fly for your protection) is remembered here. The Church confides in the pastors, “Behold, your Mother,” to Our Lady. These words from the cross encourage us to seek refuge near her mother. Under the cloak of Our Lady we are safe. In all difficulties, we can rely on Her Mother with immense faith and venture into Her service.
Friday was the day of the Church of the Twelve Apostles. As “brethren of the saints and servants of God,” we are “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets” (Ephesians 2:19-20). Only within the apostolic structure of the Church, with its apostolic succession, apostolic faith, and true priesthood, can we build the temple of the living God. The ordination itself took place on Saturday night, with plans to take place at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday morning. In this way, just as Jesus called Peter and his “partner” (Luke 5:10) who were teaching from Simon’s boat at the beginning of his public life, so the church can It expressed the unity of the united priestly system.
The first week of Lent is the week of sowing. Let us entrust the bounty of the earth and the work of human hands to the mercy of God, so that everyone may receive their daily bread and there will be no hunger on earth. Let us also entrust the seed of the Word to God’s mercy, so that the bishop’s “laying on of hands” (2 Timothy 1:6) may revive the gift of God within us. Apostolic succession, union with Peter. We thank God for protecting us in all our temptations and difficulties, and in the words of the prayer after Holy Communion, we pray that God will give us His grace, that is, His eternal love, Himself, the gift of the Holy Spirit. Let’s pray that He will reach out to us. I also believe that He can provide us with the temporary comfort we need when we are weak.
“Lord, you have strengthened us through these mysteries and nourished us with the heavenly sacraments. comfort us and help us, and never stop show us yours Good feeling”.
Let us pray “through Christ our Lord.” Let us pray as if we were under the cloak of the Mother. Pray like a trustworthy child. The Savior’s words are firm: “Have faith, for I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), journey to easter
Meditation—The Tree of Knowledge and the Cross
The sin caused through the tree was dispelled by the obedience of the tree, the obedience to God in which the Son of Man was nailed to the tree, and the knowledge of evil was destroyed and the knowledge of good was brought in and given. . And just as obedience to God is good, so evil is disobedience to God. Therefore, the Word says, through the prophet Isaiah, because he foretold what would happen in the future and told the future that they were “prophets,” and the Word says through him: I didn’t refuse or object, I was hit on the back and buffeted on the cheek, but I didn’t turn my face away from their filth as they spat on me. [Is. 50, 6] So Jesus canceled the old disobedience of the tree by His obedience to the point of death by hanging on the tree. And since He Himself is the Word of God Almighty, universally penetrating us throughout the world in His invisible form, encompassing both His length and breadth, Height and depth. is. Because everything is arranged and controlled by God’s word. They too were crucified and imprinted on the universe in the form of a cross. For in becoming visible, God needed to reveal the universality of His cross, and through that visible form God’s work, the things in the heights, the heavens, should shine forth. This is to openly show that it is God who causes them. And it holds the depths that are in the bowels of the earth, extending its length from east to west, and sailing also over the northern part and the breadth of the south, calling forth all those who are scattered from every direction. . Knowledge of the Father.
—Saint Irenaeus
Saturday of the first week of Lent (Ember Saturday)
There is a station San Pietro in the Vaticano (St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican):
The station was located inside St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, where people gathered near evening to witness the ordination of priests and clergy. The original cathedral was built by Constantine in 323 on the site where St. Peter was buried.
Learn more San Pietro in the Vaticanolook:
For more information about station churches, see Station Churches.