Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

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It’s been a long few days.

Hope your Lent is productive. Only three and a half more weeks

Shockingly, my state’s primary election is upon us again. And not for the first time in recent years, I really don’t care. There’s no voting our way out of any of the current messes we’re in. I’ll probably still go into the polling place and check a few boxes for old time’s sake.

I came across this while reading the daily meditations of St. Alphonsus Liguori which were recommended by Fr. Isaac Mary in his podcast:

“St. Bonaventure remarks that “those wounds which were scattered over the Body of our Lord, were all united in the single heart of Mary.” Thus was our Blessed Lady, through the compassion of her loving heart for her Son, scourged, crowned with thorns, insulted, and nailed to the Cross. Whence the same Saint, considering Mary on Mount Calvary, present at the death of her Son, questions her in these words: “O Lady, tell me, where didst thou stand? Was it only at the foot of the Cross? Ah, much more than this, thou wast on the Cross itself, crucified with thy Son.” Richard of St. Laurence, on the words of the Redeemer, spoken by Isaias the Prophet: I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me (Is. lxiii. 3), says, “It is true, O Lord, that in the work of human redemption Thou didst suffer alone, and that there was not a man who sufficiently pitied Thee; but there was a woman with Thee, and she was Thine own Mother; she suffered in her heart all that Thou didst endure in Thy body.”

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Mary, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

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