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Today is Friday, February 27, 2026, a day kept in honor of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

We reflect on the feast day remembered in the Roman Martyrology, including St. Julian the Martyr, who, though crippled with gout, was carried before the judge and remained faithful unto death.

From The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Liguori, we contemplate Mary as the Peacemaker between sinners and God, our powerful Mediatrix who never refuses those who have recourse to her.

From The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, we meditate on Our Lord’s silence before Herod — mocked, clothed in white, and treated as a fool. Christ teaches us the virtue of holy silence under humiliation.

The central meditation today:
⚔️ Do not spare your Agag.
Like King Saul, we often destroy small faults but spare our ruling passion — pride, vanity, anger, impurity, resentment, stubbornness. That dominant vice must be struck first.

We reflect on:

Mortifying the ruling passion

The danger of exterior devotion without interior humility

The merit of silent humiliation

Small daily mortifications

David conquering himself before conquering enemies

The spiritual barrenness that comes from refusing humility

Finally, from Purgatory Explained, we hear the powerful story of a servant girl whose sacrifice of her last coin for a Mass for the Holy Souls led to miraculous intervention — reminding us of the immense power of charity toward the suffering souls.

May we ask Our Lady of Sorrows to obtain for us the grace to conquer ourselves and offer our will entirely to Christ.