Loving the Bride, vol. 16

Something old....

I write to the Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless you hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable good-will towards me. Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ. Rather entice the wild beasts, that they may become my tomb, and may leave nothing of my body; so that when I have fallen asleep [in death], I may be no trouble to any one. Then shall I truly be a disciple of Christ, when the world shall not see so much as my body. Entreat Christ for me, that by these instruments01-0846--> I may be found a sacrifice [to God].

------The Letter of St. Ignatius to the Romans. (written prior to his martyrdom, approx. 99 AD.)

Something new....

Pope Benedict XVI's Lenten Message is here.

Something borrowed....

Benedict XVI also preaches of the "feminine genius", courtesy here of Feminine-genius.

Why Catholics fast!.


Something blue....

Did you know that this month marked the 150th anniversary of Mary's appearance in Lourdes? More here.

Happy Lent!




Copyright 2006 Patricia W. Gohn