Lent 2020 let’s cause some spiritual damage :)

Day 35

if we ask our moms...they would do anything for us. If we never had a mom...God gave us his. It’s always OK to ask your mother for anything. But sometimes mom says no.

But remember she will always love us.

 

This is lovely.

 

Day 36

will you walk with me?

 

I’m trying to, Lord. Sometimes I’m limping along.

 

Oh yes. Yes yes. Limping and dragging.

 

Day 37

Jesus is coming!

 

The Vale of Tears, by Gustave Dore

 

Day 38

Now is the time for our final push. For those of us that strayed...come back. Entrench and reinforce. We need to finish strong. God sees every moment. Let’s pull one more soul out of purgatory so they can pray for us. Let’s start focusing on the finish line.

 

Hi Brother Al,

I hope that you don't mind that I have posted this video on your thread. I recently discovered this very old movie and I thought that others here might be interested in it. I think that it is especially fitting for the Lenten season. +


La vie du Christ 1906 The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ - Silent Short Film - Alice Guy

Here is some trivia about this film from IMDb:

"This early extravaganza film used had over 100 extras and in 1906 was the biggest hit that French filmmaking had ever seen. It was Gaumont Film Company's big blockbuster."

"One of the first films to have actors walking in and out of screen"

"Most scenes in this early film has all the action taking place in front of a still camera. However, one scene "Climbing Golgotha", includes a early innovative sweeping pan shot."

"At the time this film was made, its director/producer, Alice Guy, was also the head of Gaumont film production."

"During a screening in the 1940s in Argentina, an old man, for whom this was his first experience with 'moving pictures', was so taken in and enraged from seeing Judas betray Jesus that he pulled out a gun and started firing at the screen, intent on stopping him from betraying Jesus again"
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Day 39

in the morning, sometimes it good to go outside and look up....and say Thank You God.

 

Has Palm Sunday arrived in any parts of the world.

happy Palm Sunday

 

Day 40

It’s easy to walk with Jess when everyone loves him. The real battle starts when persecution begins.

Pray pray pray

Happy Palm Sunday!

 

Day 41

it has begun...

 

day 42

God I tried...thank you! On this day, teach us what Easter really means

Holy Tuesday - Jesus in Temple

 

Day 43

loving God...how many times have we acted like Judas. Help us prepare for these special days.

To Mog family...let’s end this with prayers and penance. May our prayers, by the grace of God, bring a little hope to the world.

 

Notre Dame Cathedral to broadcast crown of thorns veneration on Good Friday

Paris, France, Apr 7, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- One year after the world watched the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris burn, the Archbishop of Paris will display the relic of Christ’s crown of thorns for veneration during a Good Friday broadcast.

“When Mary is at the foot of the cross, she knows that from the most absolute evil God can always draw a much greater one," Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris said in an online press conference on April 7.

“I do not see any meaning in the cathedral fire or the COVID-19 epidemic. On the other hand, I know that God can bring much greater out of the misfortune that strikes us,” he said.

The Good Friday meditation before the crown of thorns will be broadcast live from inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time April 9, days before the first anniversary of the fire.

Paris has been under lockdown since March 17 with all non-essential trips from home banned except for a visit to the grocery store or doctor’s office.

With nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases documented in France, the country’s lockdown measures have been extended until at least April 15, the anniversary of the Notre-Dame fire.

More than 8,900 people have died in France from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.

France’s coronavirus measures have delayed the reconstruction efforts at Notre-Dame de Paris.

The removal of the melted scaffolding on the cathedral’s roof scheduled to begin March 23 cannot take place under the country’s coronavirus measures, according to the French newspaper, Libération.

The scaffolding, which was present on the building prior to the April 15 fire due to restoration work, fused together during the blaze. There are an estimated 551 tons of metal still on top of the cathedral.

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris formerly displayed the crown of thorns for veneration each Friday during Lent at 3 p.m. and all day on Good Friday. This tradition was moved to Paris’ Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois this year as the damaged Notre Dame Cathedral remains closed to the public.

Archbishop Aupetit will lead a meditation on the Passion of Christ inside the cathedral in the apse behind Notre-Dame’s Pietà. He will be joined by Msgr. Patrick Chauvet, rector of Notre-Dame and Auxiliary Bishop Denis Jachiet.

French actors Philippe Torreton and Judith Chemla will read texts by Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, and St. Teresa of Calcutta, while violinist Renaud Capuçon will provide musical accompaniment.

The archbishop said at the press conference that he had originally planned to have a street procession with the relic in Paris, but this was no longer possible due to the strict coronavirus measures in France.

On Holy Thursday, Aupetit will bless the city of Paris with the Blessed Sacrament at noon from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on Montmartre, which overlooks the city.

Under coronavirus quarantine, a priest in Paris blessed his neighbors with a rooftop benediction last week.

otre-Dame de Chrétienté@ndchretiente


Bénédiction de la ville de Paris depuis le toit de l'église Saint François-Xavier ! #Confinementjour18 #COVIDー19



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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...own-of-thorns-veneration-on-good-friday-50346

 

Fallen Saint, thank you so much for creating and maintaining this beautiful and inspiring thread. I have watched for it each day. Very good work for the Lord.
May God reward you richly.

 

Thank you!

4 more days....Happy Easter!

 

Day 44

Holy Thursday - Now we are heading for finish line. Pray brothers and sisters pray.

Did Jesus know what was going to happen? The great unknown?

 

Triduum: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

https://watch.formed.org/videos/triduum