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Proclaim a Solemn Assembly
Proclaim a Solemn Assembly

“Blow a trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the porch and the Altar, and let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not make Your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations’" (Joel 2).

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Rick StuckwischCoronavirus, Covid-19, Prayer, Repentance, Discipline, Lent Comment
Reminiscere…Remember, O Lord, Thy Tender mercies
Reminiscere…Remember, O Lord, Thy Tender mercies

Lent is a time of Catechesis in the faith. If Invocabit introduced the new Christian to an important reality of the Christian life, namely, that they have an enemy who likes to parade as a friend, the second Sunday in Lent, Reminscere, introduces the newbies (and reminds the old hands) that there are plenty of times to the contrary where our dearest Friend appears to us in the guise of our enemy, as one who seemingly ignores our pleas for mercy and aid.

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William WeedonComment