Fortieth day of Lent

Doctor Leo the Great's seventy-second lecture, on the Resurrection (complete)

It's Holy Saturday.  Meditate on the Harrowing of Hell.

Easter Vigil begins in the evening.  Meditate also on the extended readings for the night's liturgy, which summarize the history of salvation.

Thirty-ninth day of Lent

Doctor Leo the Great's forty-ninth sermon, on Lent (complete)

It's Good Friday,  a day of fasting and abstinence.  Go to the Stations today if you haven't been able to before now.  If possible, meditate on the necessity of the Crucifixion at the Hour of Mercy.

Thirty-eighth day of Lent

Doctor Leo the Great's twenty-first lecture, on the Nativity (complete)

It's Maundy Thursday.  Today will be the last mass before Easter.  Some churches will also have Washing of the Feet.  You may also find one where the Seven Churches Visitation is practiced.

Thirty-seventh day of Lent

Doctor Leo the Great's twenty-eighth letter (complete)

Pope Leo I was the first to be called "the Great."  This letter, also called "The Tome," helped to resolve the controversy over the two natures of Christ at the Council of Chalcedon (which in turn brought the Monophysite heresy, easily confused with Miaphysitism, to schism).

Thirty-sixth day of Lent

Doctor Ambrose on the Mysteries (chapters 5-9)

Thirty-fifth day of Lent

Doctor Ambrose on the Mysteries (chapters 1-4)

Ambrose of Milan was an influential Christian writer who, like others of his era, faced an uphill battle against the Arians.  He once advised Augustine of Hippo to follow the liturgical norms of whatever locale where he happened to find himself (like the Sabbath, liturgy was made for man, not man for the liturgy):  "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Sixth Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book Five of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Holy Week starts today.  Make sure you get to confession and pray the Stations of the Cross, if you haven't done so yet!

Thirty-fourth day of Lent

Doctor Cyril's twenty-third catechetical lecture

Thirty-third day of Lent

Doctor Cyril's twenty-second catechetical lecture

Thirty-second day of Lent

Doctor Cyril's twenty-first catechetical lecture

Thirty-first day of Lent

Doctor Cyril's twentieth catechetical lecture

Thirtieth day of Lent

Doctor Cyril's nineteenth catechetical lecture

St. Cyril of Jerusalem wrote (or spoke and later his words were committed to paper) twenty-three known lectures intended for new converts.  Along with a prologue, they can be found here.  The first eighteen are  intended for the season of Lent for catachumens; the final five are meant to be read to the newly baptized during the octave of Easter.

Twenty-ninth day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 81-94

Fifth Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book Four of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Twenty-eighth day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 71-80

Twenty-seventh day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 61-70

I know, I know, it's kind of long, but two more days and we're off to Saint Cyril.

Twenty-sixth day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 51-60

Twenty-fifth day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 41-50

Twenty-fourth day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 31-40

Twenty-third day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 21-30

Fourth Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book Three of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Twenty-second day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 11-20

Twenty-first day of Lent

Doctor Athanasius on the Life of St. Anthony, chapters 1-10

Athanasius is known, amongst other things, in the Eastern Church as the "Father of Orthodoxy."  He had an important role at the Council of Nicea.  The Athanasian Creed seems more to be named after him than written by him.

This Saint Anthony is St. Anthony the Great, Desert Father.

Twentieth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 19-27

Nineteenth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 10-18

Eighteenth day of Lent

St. Cyprian on the Unity of the Church, sections 1-9

Seventeeth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 60-68

Third Sunday of Lent

No required reading today.  Feast when the Church feasts, fast when the Church fasts.

However, if you want to keep your momentum, I might recommend Book Two of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, although this treatise is a little long in parts.

Sixteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 48-59

Fifteenth day of Lent

St. Justin Martyr's first Apology, chapters 36-47