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On Saturday, April 11, 2026, Frater Dismas Farfan, O.Praem., and Frater Kilian Hayes, O.Praem., made their solemn profession as Canons Regular of Prémontré.
Join us for Vespers as we celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord.
How can I look on you hanging from the cross, dear Savior, without being moved to deep gratitude for your merciful judgment of me? Such is the mercy revealed on the cross.
However our Lent has gone this year, and however this holy Saturday morning feels, let's run to the tomb with Saint Mary Magdalene. Let us rejoice together.
Good Friday teaches us that there will never be a proportion between God's love for us and our merit.
Put away everything else and enter deeply into the liturgical celebrations that begin this evening. Allow yourself a true celebration of the gifts of the priesthood and the Eucharist.
We're about to celebrate the Passover with our Lord at the Last Supper, accompany him on the terrible journey to Calvary, witness his awful Passion and death, and then rise with him to new life in his glorious resurrection. Stay with the Lord.
Our entire Lenten preparation, all our fasting, prayer and almsgiving, has been about opening our eyes so that we can see the face of Christ during these holiest of days. Let's ask for the grace to stay close to him.
We may face the fasting and liturgical rigors of the week ahead with some reluctance. And yet, we can trust that our blessed Lord will give us everything we need (and so much more!) in the angelic work we undertake as members of the Church.
This upcoming week should be one of simply following in Christ's footsteps: of seeing Judas betray him, of his final heartfelt moments spent with the apostles, of the terror and darkness, of him tasting death for us, and of the lasting joy that is his victory and will one day be ours.
Spiritual progress happens gradually. Remember St. Francis de Sales's admonition to have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself. Christ chose the time in which to be captured, so as to enter into his passion at the fullness of time. He has a particular hour for you with all things, too.
Hypocrisy is a difficult vice to detect in ourselves since it is so bound up with pride and ultimately produces spiritual blind spots. In order to combat this vice of hypocrisy, we have to be completely transparent with God and ourselves.
Today, we have a small reprieve from the rigors of our Lenten observance. We rejoice with our Lord and our Lady. But as we continue on into Passiontide, we should always be mindful that the cross was inevitable. From the very beginning, the crucifixion was already inscribed into the incarnation.