Day by Day with María: #EasterTriduum

Saturday, April 20, 2019

be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit

"Las Tres Marías at the Empty Tomb"
(Mary Magdalene, Mary Caifas and Mary Salome)
by Angel Rodriguez-Diaz
painting at San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio,
in commemoration of the cathedral's 275th anniversary in 2006

O God, who make this most sacred night radiant

with the glory of the Lord's Resurrection,

stir up in your Church a spirit of adoption,

so that, renewed in body and mind,

we may render your undivided service.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity

of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever! AMEN

Happy joyous Easter to you and yours,

my friends! May the graces of Easter

overwhelm you with JOY ❤️

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

restore us, Lord... a litany of images

This Lent I have truly enjoyed taking part of a #LentPhotoaDay2016 creative initiative that I came across online. The idea is that one image -- based on one given word -- became the center of my prayer each day.

I may not have done it every day – and I confess that I didn’t always follow the published words suggested for each day. But I certainly enjoyed engaging with images as a way to ponder on and pray with throughout this Lent.

All my photos – and the words assigned to each image – were posted on my Instagram and Facebook accounts, and often on Twitter. Here they are, for those of you who missed it, all together in one post!

As we begin this Holy EasterTriddum, these three days in the Church’s year marked with services of remembrance, fasting and prayer, please know that I am praying for each one of you and your families.

And in order to enter fully into the moment, I will be offline until Easter week.

How splendid the cross of Christ!

It brings life, not death;

light, not darkness;

Paradise, not its loss.

It is the wood on which the Lord,

like a great warrior,

was wounded in hands and feet and side,

but healed thereby our wounds.

A tree had destroyed us,

a tree now brought us life.

~Theodore of Studios