“You are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God”

Upon the 4th day of April, were born into the better life: _ At Seville, in Spain, the holy Confessor Isidore, Bishop of that see, famous for his holiness and teaching, who lighted up all Spain by his zeal for the Catholic faith, and by his observance of the discipline of the Church, [in the year 639.] At Thessalonica, under the Emperor Maximian and the President Faustinus, the holy martyrs, the Deacon Agathopodes, and the Reader Theodulos, who were drowned in the sea with stones tied round...

The Angelus (Millet, 1859) H O LY W E E K · A N N O D O M I N I 2 0 2 6 D ear friends of Septuagesima70 — we have arrived. The long Lenten road, which began in the grey ashes of Septuagesima and carried us through the disciplines of these weeks, now delivers us to the threshold of the holiest days in the Christian year. Lent, properly speaking, is finished. What lies before us now is something alto‐ gether different: the Sacred Triduum. From the evening of Holy Thursday, through the silence...