Day: March 24, 2026

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Passion Tuesday – 24 March – Our Lenten Journey With St Thomas Aquinas – The Burial of Christ

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Passion Tuesday – 24 March – Our Lenten Journey With St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Doctor of the Church

Passion Tuesday
The Burial of Christ

“She hath wrought a good work upon Me.
She in pouring this ointment upon Me hath done it for My Burial.”
Matt xxvi. 10-12.

It was fitting that Christ should be Buried.

  1. It proved that He had really died.
    No-one is placed in the grave unless he is undeniably dead. And, as we read in St Mark (ch xv), Pilate, before he gave leave for Christ to be Buried, made careful enquiry to assure himself that Christ was indeed Dead.
  2. The very fact that Christ rose again from the grave, gives a hope of rising again through Him, to all others who lie in their graves.
    “As it says in the gospel, All who are in the grave shall hear the Voice of the Son of God. And they who hear shall live.”(John v. 28, 25),
  3. It was an example for those who, by the Death of Christ, are spiritually dead to sin, for those, that is, who are hidden away from the turmoil of human affairs.
    So St Paul says, “You are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col iii. 3).
    So too, those who are Baptised, since by the Death of Christ they die to sin, are as it were, buried with Christ in their immersion, as St Paul again says, We are buried together with Christ by Baptism unto death (Rom vi. 4).

As the Death of Christ efficiently wrought our salvation, so too, is His Burial effective for us.
St Jerome, for example, says, “By the Burial of Christ, we all rise again” and explaining the words of Isaias (liii. 9), He shall give the ungodly for His Burial, “This means He shall give to God the Father, the nations lacking in filial devotion, for through His Death and Burial He has obtained possession of them.”

The Psalm (Ps Ixxxvii. 6) says, “I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.”
Christ, by being Buried showed Himself free among the dead indeed, for His being enclosed in the Tomb, was not allowed to hinder His coming forth in the Resurrection.

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

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Quote/s of the Day – 24 March – “The world … hates Me … John 7:7

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Quote/s of the Day – 24 March – Tuesday of Passion Week – Daniel 14:27-42 – John 7:1-13 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“The world … hates Me
because I bear witness concerning it,
that its works are evil.”

John 7:7

“… THE WORLD HATES Christians,
so why give your love to it,
instead of following Christ,
Who Loves you and has Redeemed you?
A man cannot love the Father
and love the world at the same time.
All that the world offers is the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes and earthly ambition.
The world and its allurements will pass away
but the man who has done the will of God
shall live forever.
Our part, my dear brothers,
is to be single-minded, firm in faith
and steadfast in courage, ready for God’s will, whatever it may be. Banish the fear of death
and think of the eternal life which follows it.
That will show people that we really live our faith.”

St Cyprian of Carthage (200-258)
Bishop of Carthage, Martyr
Father of the Church

(An excerpt from On Man’s Mortality).

“God takes special care
to detach from the passing pleasures of this world,
those whom He Loves with special predilection,
by sending them desires after heavenly bliss
and, by the sorrows and bitterness
of the present life.”

St Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)

“We must make our way towards eternity,
never regarding what men think of us,
or of our actions,
studying only to please God.”

St Francis Borgia (1510-1572)

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Our Morning Offering – 24 March – The Feast of St Gabriel the Archangel – Fr Faber’s Hail Gabriel, a thousand Hails!

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Our Morning Offering – 24 March – The Feast of St Gabriel the Archangel

Hail Gabriel, Hail, a Thousand Hails!
By Fr Fr Frederick W Faber CO (1814-1863)

Hail Gabriel, hail, a thousand hails
For thine whose music still prevails
To charm the list’ning ear;
Angelic word, sent forth to tell
How He the Eternal Word should dwell
Amid His creatures here.

Heaven’s voice of sweetness, uttered low,
Thy words like strains of music grow
Upon the stilly night;
Clear echoes from the mind of God
Which steal through Mary’s blest abode
In pulses of delight.

O voice, dear voice, the ages hear
That hail of thine, still ling’ring near,
An unexhausted song
And still, thou com’st with balmy wing
And still, thou sweetly seem’st to sing,
Thine Ave to prolong.

Take up in Heaven, for us thy part
And singing to the Sacred Heart,
Thy strains of rapture raise
And tune with endless Ave still
The voices of the Blest and fill,
The ear of God, with praise.

The Above is an excerpt from Fr Faber’s 14 stanza Hymn.
Tune: “Pembroke” J. Foster, 1807-1885.

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Saint of the Day – 24 March – Saint Bernulf (9th/10th Century) Bishop and Martyr

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Saint of the Day – 24 March – Saint Bernulf (9th/10th Century) Bishop and Martyr of Mondovi, Piedmont, Italy. We have no certainty about the life of our Saint today but tradition believes that he was the said Bishop and also that he had received the Crown of Martyrdom. Also known as – Bernolfo.

Sources relating to the life of St Bernulf, the Bishop of the Piedmontese Diocese of Mondovì, are very scarce.

In 1514, during the Consecration of the Cathedral’s High Altar, Bishop Lorenzo Fieschi recounts placing there the Relics of St Donatus, to whom the Cathedral was dedicated and also of St Bernulf, the martyr.

The tradition declares Bernulf the Bishop of the City, killed during one of the many Saracen raids which occurred in south-western Piedmont during the 9th and 10th Centuries. The cult dedicated to St Bernulf was centered at a Chapel erected in the locality of Priola, near the Casina Saracina, not far from Mondovì. This Chapel erected on the presumed site of Bernolfo’s Martyrdom, contained a painting, perhaps from the 13th Century, depicting his death by flaying and a wooden Statue in Bishop’s Vestments was also venerated there.

The Chapel which a noble family from Mondovì had built in his honour no longer exists but a silver Reliquary believed to contain his head is still venerated in the Cathedral.

Based on this scant information, it is not easy to reconstruct Bernulf’s true biography, nor to establish, with greater precision, the time and circumstances of his Martyrdom.

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The Feast of Saint Gabriel, the Archangel, Tuesday of Passion Week, Notre-Dame de L’épine Fleurie / Our Lady of the Flowering Thorn, France and Memorials of the Saints for 24 March

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PASSION TUESDAY

The Archangel Saint Gabriel
The Feast of Saint Gabriel was included by Pope Benedict XV in the General Roman Calendar in 1921, for celebration on 24 March.
The Archangel Saint Gabriel’s name means “the Power of God” He appeared to the Prophet Daniel (Dan 8:16; 9:21), to the priest Zachary to announce the forthcoming birth of Saint John the Baptist (Luke 1:11, 19) and, most importantly, to the Blessed Virgin Mary to announce the birth of Our Saviour (Luke 1:26).
St Gabriel!
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-the-archangel-saint-gabriel/

Notre-Dame de L’épine Fleurie / Our Lady of the Flowering Thorn, France – 24 March:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/24/our-lady-of-the-flowering-thorn-and-memorials-of-the-saints-24-march/

St Agapitus (Died 3rd Century) Bishop of Synnada, Phrygia, in Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish Town of Suhut. We have no further information on the life of St Agapitus..

St Aldemar the Wise OSB (985-c1080) Italian Priest, Abbot, founder of many Monasteries, Miracle-worker.
A Most Gifted Man:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-st-aldemar-the-wise-osb-985-c1080-priest-abbot/

St Bernulf (9th/10th Century) Bishop and Martyr of Mondovi, Piedmont, Italy
Bl Bertha de’Alberti of Cavriglia

Blessed Bertrada (c726-783) Married to King Pepin the Short. Queen of the Franks. Mother of Blessed Charlemagne.
A Life of Piety:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-blessed-bertrada-of-laon-c726-783-queen/

St Caimin of Lough Derg
St Cairlon of Cashel

St Catherine (1331-1381) Widow, Nun of the Brigittine Order in Sweden . Catherine was Canonised in 1484 by Pope Innocent VIII.
Dedicated St Catherine:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-st-catherine-of-sweden-1331-1381/

Blessed Diego José /Blessed Didacus Joseph OFM Cap (1743–1801) Spanish Capuchin Priest Friar in Cadiz, renowned Preacher, Missionary. He was Beatified on 22 April 1894 by Pope Leo XIII.
A Life of Love:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/03/24/saints-of-the-day-24-march-blessed-didacus-joseph-of-cadiz-ofm-cap-1743-1801/

St Domangard of Maghera
St Epicharis of Rome
St Epigmenius of Rome
St Hildelith of Barking

Blessed John dal Bastone OSB Silv. (c1200-1290) Priest, Monk. He was Beatified on 29 August 1772 by Pope Clement XIV.
His Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-blessed-john-dal-bastone-c-1200-1290/

St Latinus of Brescia
St Macartan of Clogher
St Mark of Rome
St Pigmenius of Rome
St Romulus of North Africa
St Secundus of North Africa
St Seleucus Confessor of Syria – No other information has survived.

St Severus (Died c814) Bishop of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
His Little-known Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2025/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-saint-severus-died-c814-bishop-of-catania-sicily-italy/

St Timothy of Rome

Martyrs of Africa – 9 Saints: A group of Christians murdered for their faith in Africa, date unknown. The only details about their that survive are the names – Aprilis, Autus, Catula, Coliondola, Joseph, Rogatus, Salitor, Saturninus and Victorinus. .

Martyrs of Caesarea – 6 Saints: A group of Christians Martyred together in the persecutions of Diocletian. We know little else but six of their names – Agapius, Alexander, Dionysius, Pausis, Romulus and Timolaus. They were martyred by beheading in 303 at Caesarea, Palestine.