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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.

Begin with the introductory prayers in the left-hand Reading Pane,
or else click the link below to go directly to the verses of the
Florilegium of the Day,
always scrolling down to Reading Pane after clicking any link

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SATURDAY OF THE JOYFUL

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* INDEX *
FROM THE OFFICE OF READINGS



ORDINARY TIME


  • St. Augustine
    Stretch out your hand knowing that
    you must provide the same kind of meal yourself.
Whatever in all this I ponder, it is God I am pondering.
  • 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.
  • BAPTISM
    Sunday after Epiphany
    St. Maximus of Turn
    • Christ is baptized not to be made holy by the water,
    but to make the water holy.
  • PRESENTATION
    February 2
    St. Sophronius
    • The Mother of God, wholly virgin, 
    carried the true light in her arms.
  • ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
    March 25
    St. Cyril of Alexanderia
    • Let the union of God and man in the Son of the Virgin Mary 
    fill us with awe and adoration.


  • HOLY THURSDAY
    Easter Triduum
    St. Cyril of Jerusalem
    • Let faith make you sure and certain.
  • 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.
  • HOLY SATURDAY
    Easter Triduum
    St. Ephrem
    • In the body which he received from the Virgin 
    he invaded death's fortress.
  • DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
    Octave Sunday of Easter
    Bl. Isaac of Stella
    • He himself being a priest, 
    he offers himself in sacrifice to God,
    who is himself God.
  • PENTECOST SUNDAY
    50th Day of Easter
    A 6th Century African Author
    • God's Church was to speak in every language.


  • MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
    1st Monday after Pentecost
    Vatican Council II
    • The Mother of God is a type of the Church.
  • SACRED HEART OF JESUS
    3rd Friday After Pentecost
    St. Bonaventure
    • Flowing from the secret abyss of our Lord's heart as from a fountain, 
    this stream gives the sacraments of the Church
    the power to confer the life of grace.
  • IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
    3rd Saturday after Pentecost
    Blessed Abbot Guerric
    • She who glories in having borne the only-begotten of the Father 
    embraces that same only-begotten of hers in all his members.
  • ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER
    May 1
    St. Pope John Paul II
    • Work too has been taken up into the mystery of the Incarnation.
  • OUR LADY OF FATIMA
    May 13
    Pope Paul VI
    • Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
  • 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.
  • THE VISITATION
    May 31
    St. Ambrose
    • O Soul that loves God, magnify the Lord with me!
  • QUEENSHIP OF MARY
    August 22
    Pope Pius XII
    • At his right hand stands the Queen in gold of Ophir.
  • BIRTH OF MARY
    September 8
    St. Andrew of Crete
    • Today the creation is raised to the dignity of a holy place for the Creator.
  • NAME OF MARY
    September 12
    St. Bernard of Clairvaux
    • In dangers, in anguish, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary.
  • 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.


  • THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
    December 8
    Pope Pius IX
    • God, by one and the same decree, established the origin of Mary 
    and the Incarnation of Divine Wisdom.
  • OUR LADY OF LORETO
    December 10
    John Paul II
    • The holy house of Loreto is a true and precious icon
    of an event and a mystery.
  • 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?
  • CHRISTMAS DAY
    December 25
    St. Leo the Great
    • He stooped down to take up our lowliness 
    without loss to his own glory.
  • THE HOLY FAMILY
    Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
    Pope Paul VI
    • How gladly would I become a child again,
    and go to school once more in this sublime school of Nazareth,
    close to Mary.