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Welcome to Ash Wednesday! As we begin Lent, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Gary Zimak to start our annual series on his book, “Give Up Worry for Lent.” Other guests include canon lawyer Fr. Philip-Michael Tangorra, and Karlo Broussard from Catholic Answers. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…
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Pope St. Gregory the Great’s Acclaim To The Suffering Christ
O Lord, You received affronts
without number from Your blasphemers,
yet each day You free captive souls
from the grip of the ancient enemy.
You did not avert Your face
from the spittle of perfidy,
yet You wash souls in saving waters.
You accepted Your scourging without murmur,
yet through your meditation
You deliver us from endless chastisements.
You endured ill-treatment of all kinds,
yet You want to give us a share
in the choirs of angels in glory everlasting.
You did not refuse to be crowned with thorns,
yet You save us from the wounds of sin.
In your thirst You accepted the bitterness of gall,
yet You prepare Yourself to fill us with eternal delights.
You kept silence under the derisive homage
rendered You by Your executioners,
yet You petition the Father for us
although You are his equal in Divinity.
You came to taste death,
yet You were the Life
and had come to bring it to the dead.
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Dr. Ben Reinhard, author of The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination
Cincinnati Right to Life is online at cincinnatirighttolife.org.
Msgr. Charles Pope is online at blog.adw.org.
Jackie Angel, author of Memorize Scripture
