The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week
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Mother Miriam Live delves into the profound spiritual significance of Passion Tide and Holy Week, emphasizing the liturgical mystery, penitential character, and sacred traditions of the Catholic Church. Drawing from Dom Guérin-Jay's 19th-century writings, she reflects on the Church's mourning for Christ's Passion, the veiling of crosses and statues, the solemnity of the Triduum, and the diminishing of joyful liturgical expressions like the Gloria. She laments the erosion of traditional practices such as penitents in sackcloth and ashes, catechumens deeply instructed in the faith, and the reverence of the Latin Mass. The episode also addresses listener questions on faith, family conflict, and the suffering of innocents, offering theological reflections rooted in divine mystery, personal responsibility, and the necessity of spiritual strength. Mother Miriam passionately defends the traditional Latin Mass as the truest expression of Catholic truth and calls for renewed fidelity to the Church's unchanging teachings.
Passion Tide is a sacred, penitential season of profound liturgical mystery leading to Holy Week.
The veiling of crosses and statues symbolizes Christ's humiliation and the Church's mourning.
The Latin Mass preserves doctrinal truth and reverence, unlike the Novus Ordo, which Mother Miriam believes has diluted tradition.
No one can cause another to sin—responsibility for sin lies solely with the individual.
The suffering of innocents is a mystery beyond human comprehension, but we trust in God's perfect justice and love.
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The Mystery of Passion Tide and the Liturgical Mourning of the Church
“The Church is now going to suppress another expression, which seems too glad for a time like the present, partially at first, unless it be a feast of a saint... entirely during the last three days, she's about to deny herself the use of that formula which is so dear to her. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.”
The Erosion of Tradition: Catechumens, Penitents, and the Modern Church
“I remember one 14 year old who I was sponsoring for her confirmation. And she went to classes and she had just come out of a class on the Eucharist that I took her to lunch. It was a weekday and we're sitting there and I asked her across the table, I said, tell me what is the Eucharist? She had no idea. She said, well, we are, we are the church, we're the Eucharist.”
Faith, Family, and the Call to Spiritual Strength
“No one, no human being on this earth can cause you to sin. They can do many, many things, but the response is yours and totally your responsibility and totally within your control as you develop, as you go deeper into your Catholic faith.”
The Latin Mass as the True Language of the Church
“If it's a dead language, it stays. It always says what it says. And it always means what it means. The reason that there's confusion is that when language changes and gets updated, you don't know what's being said anymore.”
“I remember one 14 year old who I was sponsoring for her confirmation. And she went to classes and she had just come out of a class on the Eucharist that I took her to lunch. It was a weekday and we're sitting there and I asked her across the table, I said, tell me what is the Eucharist? She had no idea. She said, well, we are, we are the church, we're the Eucharist.”
“No one, no human being on this earth can cause you to sin. They can do many, many things, but the response is yours and totally your responsibility and totally within your control as you develop, as you go deeper into your Catholic faith.”
“The Church is now going to suppress another expression, which seems too glad for a time like the present, partially at first, unless it be a feast of a saint... entirely during the last three days, she's about to deny herself the use of that formula which is so dear to her. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.”
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Mother Miriam
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Dom Guérin-Jay
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Latin Mass
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The Station of the Cross
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Eucharist
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Novus Ordo
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Station of the Cross Catholic Radio Network
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Holy Week
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Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope
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Carl
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