Tuesday of the 3rd week of LentOffice of Readings | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | Night Prayer | Mass(St John Ogilvie (1579 - 1615))

John Ogilvie was born of noble Calvinist parents in 1579 at Drum-na-Keith in Banffshire, Scotland. As a boy he was sent to the continent to further his education. With the help of Father Cornelius van den Steen (‘Cornelius a Lapide’) he was received into the Catholic Church. He entered the Society of Jesus on the 5th November 1599, and was ordained priest at Paris in 1610. He returned to his native country, but his ministry was cut short by his betrayal and capture in Glasgow. After extreme suffering he was hanged on the 10th of March 1615. The principal cause of his martyrdom was his insistence on the primacy of the Pope in spiritual matters, a primacy he affirmed with great constancy to the very end. His last words were “If there be here any hidden Catholics, let them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have.” After he was pushed from the ladder, he threw his hidden Rosary beads out into the crowd. One of his enemies caught them, and he became a devout Catholic for the rest of his life.

Monday of the 3rd week of Lent, (commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious)

Office of Readings | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | Night Prayer | Mass(St Frances of Rome (1384 - 1440))

3rd Sunday of LentOffice of Readings | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | Night Prayer | Mass(St John of God (1495 - 1550))

He was born to a poor but devout family in Portugal in 1495. After serving as a soldier under the Emperor Charles V he devoted his life wholly to the service of the poor and the sick. He founded a hospital in Granada and a circle of disciples formed round him, which later became the Order of Hospitallers. He died on 8 March 1550, his 55th birthday. See the articles in Wikipedia and the Catholic Encyclopaedia.(Saint Senan, Bishop (488 - 544))