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Advent to Easter Easter Monday to Friday after the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament Third Sunday after Pentecost to the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

The Four Sundays of Advent

  • First Sunday
    On the Last Judgment
  • Second Sunday
    You should prepare your own hearts and the hearts of those you are charged to instruct to receive Our Lord and his holy maxims
  • Third Sunday
    Those who teach others are merely the voice which prepares hearts; it belongs to God himself to prepare them by his grace to receive him
  • Fourth Sunday
    By penance and freedom from sin we prepare ourselves to receive Jesus Christ

Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
We must contradict neither the truths, nor the precepts, nor the counsels of the Gospel

Sunday Between the Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Epiphany, or for the Eve of the Feast of the Kings
On the love for seclusion, following the example of Jesus Christ, who lived hidden and unknown in Egypt

The Sunday After the Feast of Kings
On the necessity of Obedience

Second Sunday After the Feast of the Kings
On exact obedience

Third Sunday After the Feast of the Kings
On the faith that should be shown in obedience

Fourth Sunday After the Feast of the Kings
On the fidelity in obedience we ought to have in spite of the most violent temptations

Fifth Sunday After the Feast of the Kings
The excellence and merit of obedience

Sixth Sunday After the Feast of the Kings
The great benefit produced by what is done through obedience, however insignificant it seems in itself

Septuagesima Sunday
That persons consecrated to God need to be exercised in the practice of obedience

Sexagesima Sunday
Three kinds of disobedient religious

Quinquagesima Sunday
Three sorts of persons who obey without gaining the merit of blind obedience

Ash Wednesday
On the spirit of penance we should have when receiving the ashes, and in which we should live all during Lent

First Sunday of Lent
On Temptation

Second Sunday of Lent
On Spiritual Consolation

Third Sunday of Lent
On simplicity and openness of heart

Fourth Sunday of Lent
Abandonment of God during trials and dryness

Passion Sunday
In what spirit we should hear and receive the words of our superiors

Palm Sunday
The Kingship of Jesus Christ

Monday in Holy Week
The Jews plot to put Jesus Christ to death

Tuesday in Holy Week
Jesus Christ's acceptance of suffering and death

Wednesday in Holy Week
The desire tat Jesus Christ had to suffer and die

Holy Thursday
Institution of the Sacrament of the Eucharist

Good Friday
On the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Holy Saturday
The five wounds of Jesus Christ

Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Easter Monday
How we should regulate our conversations

Easter Tuesday
Interior peace, and the means to preserve it

Quasimodo or Low Sunday
The faith that should permeate a soul that has risen according to grace

Second Sunday After Easter
How teachers should act toward their pupils

Third Sunday After Easter
The false joys of the world, and the true joys possessed by the servants of Jesus Christ

Fourth Sunday After Easter
The advantages of trials, whether interior or exterior

Fifth Sunday After Easter
The necessity of prayer

Rogation Monday
We are bound to pray for those whom we are charged to teach

Rogation Tuesday
Love for prayer

Eve of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ
What we should ask of God in prayer

Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Sunday in the Octave of the Ascension

Eve of Pentecost
Dispositions for receiving the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Sunday

Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
The first effect produced by the Holy Spirit in a soul is to make

Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
The second effect produced by the Holy Spirit in a soul is to make it live and cat through grace

Trinity Sunday

Feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Friday in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist is a bread that nourishes our souls

Saturday in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is food that sustains the life of our souls

Second Sunday After Pentecost in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
God honors us by inviting us to receive Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist

Monday in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
It is often ill-advised to omit Communion, for it is the remedy for all the weaknesses of our souls

Tuesday in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
On bad Communions, their causes and their remedies

Wednesday in the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
Causes and remedies of Communions that are of little benefit

The Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
On frequent Communion

Friday after the Octive of the Blessed Sacrament
Reasons used by several persons as pretext for not receiving Communion often

 

For the Third Sunday After Pentecost
The first concern of those who teach children should be to help them avoid sin

For the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
That we always succeed in what we do through obedience

For the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Religious should be far more virtuous than secular persons

For the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Those who have given themselves to God should love mortification and poverty

For the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Holiness does not consist in the habit worn, but in actions

For the Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
The account you must give on the manner in which you have done your work

For the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

For the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
On self-contempt

For the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
On spiritual deafness

For the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
On the union that should exist among the Brothers

For the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Temptations to impurity and how to overcome them

For the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
On Abandonment to Providence

For the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
On those who have given up the spirit of their state, and the means they must take to regain it.

For the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
The obligation of the Brothers to edify their neighbor

For the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
On the manner we should love God

For the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
On means for curing spiritual infirmities, whether voluntary or involuntary

For the Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
That many are called, but few chosen, to live in community

For the Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
That wee must not expect God to perform miracles to please us

For the Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
On the obligation of persons living in community to put up with the defects of their brothers

For the Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost
What we should not have human respect in our conduct

For the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
Several in community have left the world but not its spirit

For the Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Sin and disregard for the Rule in a community is the abomination of desolation in the holy place