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A new rosary devotion to Mary's pondering heart, derived from the Church's Liturgy of the Hours.
The Florilegium is a scriptural rosary like the Angelus, with a verse of scripture for each Hail Mary.
There is a Mystery of the Lord for each day of the week, and a Florilegium of verses for each liturgical season:
the Florilegium Joyful in Ordinary Time; the Florilegium Sorrowful for Lent and Advent;
and the Florilegium Glorious for Easter, Christmas, & Feastdays.

Florilegium of the Day

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THURSDAY OF THE JOYFUL



The Joy of the Lord
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HOLY HOUR HOMILIES


ORDINARY TIME

  • SUNDAY  OF THE JOYFUL 
    St. Augustine
    • Stretch out your hand knowing that
    you must provide the same kind of meal yourself.
  • TUESDAY OF THE JOYFUL 
    Blessed Abbot Buerric
    She can truly be called mother of all in whom she sees 
    that Christ her Son being formed.
St. Augustine
It was for her greater to have been Christ’s disciple 
than to have been his mother.
St. Sophronius
What Joy could surpass this, O Virgin Mother, 
what grace excel this God has granted to you alone?
  • SATURDAY OF THE JOYFUL
    Blessed Isaac of Stella
    These words are used in a universal sense of the Church,
    in a special sense of Mary,
    in a particular sense of the individual Christian.


ADVENT SEASON

SUNDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
St. Charles Borromeo
Our hearts should be as much prepared for the coming of Christ
as though he were still to come into this world.
  • THURSDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
    St. Leo the Great
    • While sharing the substance of his Father, 
    he stooped to be one in substance with his mother .

CHRISTMAS SEASON

  • FRIDAY OF THE GLORIOUS
    • St. Leo the Great
    Christian, remember your dignity, 
    for your liberty was bought by the blood of Christ.


LENT

  • SUNDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
    • Melito of Sardis
    For the sake of suffering humanity he clothed himself in the Virgin's womb,
    and having then a body able to suffer, he took the pain of fallen man on himself.
  • MONDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
    St. Leo the Great
    • She believes there will be no loss of virginity,
    she who is to be the Mother of God.
  • WEDNESDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
    • St. Bernard of Clairvaux
    The angel awaits an answer.
    We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of compassion.
  • FRIDAY OF THE SORROWFUL
    St. Bernard of Clairvaux
    • For only by passing through your heart could the sword enter the flesh of your Son.


EASTER

  • MONDAY OF THE GLORIOUS
    St. Gregory of Nazianus
    • He takes on the poverty of my flesh that I may gain the riches of his divinity.
  • TUESDAY OF THE GLORIOUS
    St. Anselm
    • Truly the Lord is with you, to whom he granted
    that all nature should owe as much as to himself.
  • WEDNESDAY OF THE GLORIOUS
    St. Bede the Venerable
    • She refers all her greatness to the gift of the One whose essence is power
    and whose nature is greatness.


FEASTDAYS

  • MOTHER OF GOD
    January 1
    St. Aelred
    • She is the mother of our Life, the mother of our Incarnation,
    the mother of our Light.
  • EPIPHANY
    January 6
    St. Peter Chrysologus
    • In choosing to be born for us God chose to be known by us.


  • GOOD FRIDAY
    Easter Triduum
    St. John Chrysostom
    • The soldier pierced the Lord’s side, he breached the wall of the sacred temple.
    I found the treasure and made it my own.


  • MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
    May 24
    Vatican Council II
    • In her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son
    who still journey on earth amid dangers and hardships.
  • BIRTH OF MARY
    September 8
    St. Andrew of Crete
    • Today the creation is raised to the dignity of a holy place for the Creator.
  • OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
    October 7
    Pope John Paul II
    • Precisely because it starts with Mary's own experience, 
    the Rosary is an exquisitely contemplative prayer.
  • PRESENTATION OF MARY
    November 21
    St. John Damascene
    • At your hands the creation offered to its Creator a gift excelling all other gifts:
    a chaste mother alone worthy of him.


  • OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
    December 12
    "Nican Mopohua"
    • For am I not here with you, your mother?
    Are you not safe in the shadow of my protection?
    Am I not holding you in my lap, wrapped in my arms?