Day: March 2, 2026

Posted in LENT 2026, The PASSION, Thomas Aquinas

Monday of the Second Week of Lent – 2 March – Our Lenten Journey With St Thomas Aquinas – It was fitting that our Lord should Suffer at the hands of the Gentiles

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Monday of the Second Week of Lent – 2 March – Our Lenten Journey With St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Doctor of the Church

Monday of the Second Week
It was fitting that our Lord should Suffer
at the hands of the Gentiles

“They shall deliver Him to the Gentiles
to be Mocked and Scourged and Crucified.”
Matt xx. 19

In the very manner of the Passion of Our Lord its effects are foreshadowed.
In the first place, the Passion of Our Lord had, for its effect , the salvation of Jews, many of whom were baptised in His death.

Secondly, by the preaching of these Jews, the effects of the Passion passed to the Gentiles too. There was thus, a certain fitness in Our Lord’s Passion beginning with the Jews and then, the Jews handing Him on, that it should be completed at the hands of the Gentiles.

To show the abundance of the Love which moved Him to suffer, Christ, on the very Cross, asked mercy for His tormentors. And, since He wished Jew and Gentile alike, should realise this Truth regarding His Love, so He wished that both should have a share in His Suffering.

It was the Jews and not the Gentiles who offered the figurative sacrifices of the Old Law.
The Passion of Christ was an Offering through Sacrifice, inasmuch as Christ underwent Death by His Own Will moved by Charity.
But, insofar as those who put Him to Death were concerned, they were not offering a sacrifice but committing a Mortal Sin!

When the Jews declared, “It is not lawful for us to put any man to death” (John xix. 31), they may have had many areas of concern in mind.
It was not lawful for them to put anyone to death on account of the holiness of the Feast they had begun to keep. Perhaps they wished Christ to be killed not as a transgressor of their own law but as an enemy of the state, because He had made Himself a King, a charge concerning which they had no jurisdiction.
Or again, they may have meant that they had no power to crucify which was what they longed for but only to stone, as they later stoned St Stephen.
Or, the most likely thing of all, that their Roman Conquerors had taken away their power of life and death!

ST THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274)
Priest, Theologian, Dominican
Doctor Angelicus (Angelic Doctor)
Doctor Communis (Common Doctor)
Added by Pope Saint Pius V in 1568

Posted in ON the SAINTS, St JOSEPH

Quote/s of the Day – 2 March – “The Month of St Joseph”

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Quote/s of the Day – 2 March – “The Month of St Joseph”

“St Joseph, as the greatest of all the Saints
next to Our Lady, had all the privileges of other Saints.
Hence, we may piously believe that, like St John,
he was cleansed from sin in his mother’s womb.
He was to be Mary’s spouse,
he was to occupy the first and foremost place
in the family of Jesus,
he was, hereafter, to be the Patron of the whole Church!
It was, therefore, fitting that he should be endowed
with this initial privilege of being, from his birth,
a child of God, an heir of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Thank God for this privilege bestowed on him!”

Fr Richard Frederick Clarke SJ (1839-1900)
From “The Devout Year”

Posted in CHRIST the LIGHT, FATHERS of the Church, LENT 2026, Our MORNING Offering, PRAYERS of the SAINTS, QUOTES on HEAVEN, QUOTES on PURITY

Our Morning Offering – 2 March – Lord Jesus, Think on Me By St Synesius

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Our Morning Offering – 2 March – Monday of the Second Week of Lent

Lord Jesus, Think on Me
By St Synesius of Cyrene (375-430)
Bishop of Ptolemais, Father

Lord Jesus, think on me
and purge away my sin,
from earth-born passions set me free,
and make me pure within.
Lord Jesus, think on me,
With care and woe oppressed,
let me Thy loving servant be
and taste Thy promised rest.
Lord Jesus, think on me,
nor let me go astray,
through darkness and perplexity
point Thou the heav’nly way.
Lord Jesus, think on me,
that, when the flood is past,
I may eternal brightness see
and share Thy joy at last.
Amen

Posted in SAINT of the DAY

Saint of the Day – 2 March – St Simplicius (c395-483) Pope and Confessor.

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Saint of the Day – 2 March – St Simplicius (c395-483) Pope and Confessor. His Papacy began on 25 February 468 and ended on 2 or 10 March 483. He combated the Eutychian heresy, ended the practice of Consecrating bBshops only in December and sought to offset the effects of Germanic invasions and contain the rebellion of Eastern Prelates who sought private power.

The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Rome, St Simplicius, Pope and Confessor.”

Etching of Pope Simplicius, 1636

SIMPLICIUS was the ornament of the Roman Clergy under Sts Leo the Great (400-461) and Hilarius (Died 468) and succeeded the latter as Pontiff in 468.

He was raised by God to comfort and support His Church amidst the greatest storms. All the Provinces of the Western Empire, had fallen into the hands of barbarians. The Emperors for many years, were rather shadows of power than sovereigns and, in the 8h year of the Pontificate of Simplicius, Rome itself fell a prey to foreigners. Italy, by oppressions and the ravages of barbarians, was left almost a desert without inhabitants and the Imperial armies consisted chiefly of barbarians, hired under the name of auxiliaries. These soon saw that their masters were in their power.

The Heruli demanded one third of the Italian lands and upon refusal chose for their leader Odoacer, one of the lowest extraction but a resolute and intrepid man, who was proclaimed King of Rome in 476. He put to death Orestes, who was Regent of the Empire for his son Augustulus, whom the Senate had advanced to the Imperial throne. Odoacer spared the life of Augustulus, appointed him a salary of six thousand pounds of gold and permitted him to live at full liberty near Naples.

Pope Simplicius was wholly taken up in comforting and relieving the afflicted and in sowing the seeds of the Catholic Faith among the barbarians. The East gave his zeal no less employment and concern. Peter Cnapheus, a violent Eutychian heretic, was made Patriarch of Antioch by the heretics and Peter Mengus, one of the most profligate men, Patriarch of Alexandria.

Acacius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, supported Mengus against Pope Simplicius and the Catholic Church. Pope Simplicius, at length discovered his artifices and redoubled his zeal to maintain the Holy Faith, which he saw betrayed on every side, whilst the patriarchal Sees of Alexandria and Antioch were occupied by furious wolves and there was not one Catholic King in the whole world.

St Simplicius, having reigned in faithful strife for 15 years, 11 months and 6 days, went to receive the reward of his labours in 483. He was buried in St Peter’s Basilica.

Posted in MARIAN TITLES, SAINT of the DAY

Nuestra Señora de las Apariciones / Our Lady of Apparitions, Madrid, Spain (1449) and the Saints for 2 March

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FERIAL DAY

Nuestra Señora de las Apariciones / Our Lady of Apparitions, Madrid, Spain (1449) – 2 March:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/02/our-lady-of-apparitions-madrid-spain-1449-and-memorials-of-the-saints-2-march/

St Absolon of Caesarea

St Agnes of Prague/Bohemia (1211-1282) Virgin, Nun, Princess, Foundress, Abbess, Missionary of Charity and Mercy – Patron of the Czech Republic and Prague.
Her Holy Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-st-agnes-of-praguebohemia/

St Basileus the Martyr

St Chad (c620-672) Bishop of Lichfield, Confessor, Abbot, Monk, known as the “Apostle of Mercia”i n England.
About St Chad:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-chad-c-620-672-bishop/

Blessed Charles the Good (c1083-1127) Martyr, Duke, Apostle, protector and defender of the poor, selling his and his kingdom’s riches to help those in need, wherever he could, a fair and just Ruler who made laws to accommodate the poor rather than the rich (the eventual cause of his Martyrdom), Knight who assisted in Secomd Crusade.
Blessed Charles cultus was officially confirmed by his Beatification in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII.
His Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-blessed-charles-the-good-c1083-1127-martyr/

St Cynibild of Laestingaeu
St Felix of Treves
St Fergna the White

Blessed Fulk (Died 1201) Priest of the Parish of Neuilly-sur-Marne, renowned Preacher which encouraged the 4th Crusade, Founder of a Monastery in Paris which encouraged fallen women to seek refuge and repentance in the religious life.
Zealous Fulk:
https://anastpaul.com/2025/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-blessed-fulk-of-neuilly-died-1201-priest/


St Girolamo Carmelo di Savoia
St Gistilian

St Joavan (Died c576) English Missionary, Bishop of Brittany, France.
The Life of St Jovan:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-joavan-of-brittany-died-c576-bishop/

St Jovinus the Martyr
St Lorgius of Caesarea
St Lucius of Caesarea

St Luke Casali (Died c800) Priest Abbot.
The Roman Martyrology reads: “In Agíra in Sicily, Saint Luke Casale of Nicosía, a Monk, full of humility and virtue.”
St Luke’s Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-luke-casali-of-nicosia-died-c-800/

St Simplicius, Pope and Confessor
I see that I have done a previous post on this Saint on the incorrect Feast Day of 10 March.
A True Shepherd:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/03/10/saint-of-the-day-10-march-saint-pope-simplicius-483/

St Slebhene
St Troas

Martyrs of Campania – Approximately 400 northern Italian Christians Martyred for their faith by pagan Lombards. Their story was recorded by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who reports that they people spent their final days supporting each other with prayer. c 579 in Camnpania, Italy.

Martyrs of Porto Romano – 4 Saints – Group of Christians Martyred in the persecution of Diocletian. The only other information that survives are the names of four of them – Heraclius, Januaria, Paul and Secondilla. c305 at Porto Romano at the mouth of the River Tiber, Rome.

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