Passiontide—the last 2 weeks before Easter—starts with Vespers on SATURDAY.
With that mind, let’s take a Scriptural refresher of our aim during Lent, using the verses that the traditional Benedictine office uses at each hour throughout the holy season #Catholic (1/6):
With that mind, let’s take a Scriptural refresher of our aim during Lent, using the verses that the traditional Benedictine office uses at each hour throughout the holy season #Catholic (1/6):
“Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.” -Isaiah 58:1 (from Lauds) (2/6)
“‘Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. And rend your hearts, and not your garments,’ saith the Lord Almighty.” -Joel 2: 12-13 (from Terce) (3/6)
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.” -Isaiah 55:7 (from the sixth hour—Sext) (4/6)
“Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.” -Isaiah 58:7 (from None) (5/6)
“Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them.” -Joel 2: 17 (6/6)
*The last excerpt from Joel is used during Vespers.
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