Saturday of the Second Week of Lent – March 2, 2024 – Liturgical Calendar

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March 2, 2024 (USCCB website material)

Mass proper for Saturday of the second week of Lent:

Admission Antiphon, Poem 145 (144):8-9: The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and full of mercy. How good the Lord is to all men, and merciful to all his creatures!

Gospel passage, Luke 15:18: I will stand up and go to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.”

Holy Communion Antiphon, Luke 15:32: Son, you should rejoice. Your brother was dead and has come back to life. He went missing and was found.

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Saturday of the second week of Lent: O God, grant us a share in the things of heaven by glorious healing remedies while we are still on earth, guide us through this life, pray and bring us into the light in which you dwell. Please guide me. 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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The story of the prodigal son is repeated today. It is the history of the church. It is a history of our own abandonment. In this Gospel we are given an urgent call to repentance and conversion. “Father, I have sinned.” Only penance can save us. Our Father welcomes us with mercy. Sin and its eternal punishment will be forgiven. The good deeds we performed before we sinned and the merits we lost due to sin are restored. The Father welcomes us back as His children and celebrates a joyous feast with us in Holy Communion.

In each human life story, God’s mercy is on one side and human dishonesty on the other. Does God have to abandon us as he did the people of Israel? Don’t we deserve enough of that? Sometimes it seems like God wants to allow our unbelieving generation to go their own way. If God did that, it would be a deserved punishment.

What will save us from rejection? There is only penance, repentance, and conversion. “Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning” (Joel 2:12).

-excerpt light of the world Written by Benedict Bauer, OSB

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• The parables of the prodigal son and the loving father in today’s Gospel are very important for children. The famous Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children was written by Sofia Cavalletti, a Roman Catholic Hebrew scholar who spent 30 years researching the religious development of children, and an educator who studied under Maria Montessori. Developed by Gianna Gobbi. By observing children’s reactions to a variety of religious themes, Cavalletti found that an overwhelming number of younger children were especially good at portraying Christ as the Good Shepherd and as a loving and forgiving father. I found that it was responsive. Find your local Atrium or learn more from Sophia and Gianna’s writings.

Blessed Charles Good World

Count Charles of Flanders was called a “good man” by the people of his kingdom. They named him after his true form. He was the son of St. Canute, King of Denmark. Charles was only five years old when his father was murdered in 1086. When Charles grew up, he married a nice young woman named Margaret. Charles was a gentle and just ruler. People trusted him and his laws. He tried to be an example of what others expected.

Some nobles accused Charles of unfairly favoring the poor over the rich. He kindly replied, “Because I know the needs of the poor and the pride of the rich.” The poor of his kingdom were fed daily in his castle.

Charles ordered crops to be planted in abundance so that people would have plenty of food at affordable prices. Some wealthy men tried to buy up grain in order to sell it at very high prices. Charles the Good found out about it and immediately forced it to be sold at a fair price. His influential father and his sons had been reprimanded by Charles for their violent tactics. They joined a small group of enemies who tried to kill him.

The Count went to Mass barefoot every morning, arriving at St. Donatian’s Church early in the morning. He did this in a spirit of repentance. He longed to deepen his spiritual life with God. Charles’s enemies knew that he walked to church and often prayed alone before mass. Many people who loved Charles feared for his life. They warned him that the walk to St. Donatian could lead to death. He answered, “We are always in danger, but we belong to God.” One morning, as he was praying alone in front of a statue of Mary, attackers killed him. Charles He was martyred in 1127.

>—Excerpt from Holy Spirit Interactive

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Symbols and expressions: A nobleman with a wallet and a sword. Painted after his martyrdom in the cathedral.sword

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