English Martyrs & Year A
  • RagueneauRagueneau
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    I am completely redoing all my contributions to Chabanel Psalms (YEAR A).
    My Year A contributions are being named in honor of the English Martyrs.

    Many of these have a special and amazing meaning, for example:

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    "I love you, Lord, my strength."

    In honor of Blessed John Beche (†1539), an Abbot who was hung, drawn, and quartered.

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    In honor of Blessed Thomas Johnson (†1537), a Carthusian monk who was starved to death.

    God the LORD has spoken and summoned the earth,
    from the rising of the sun to its setting.
    "Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
    for your holocausts are before me always."

    "If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
    for mine are the world and its fullness.
    Do I eat the flesh of strong bulls,
    or is the blood of goats my drink?"

    "Offer to God praise as your sacrifice
    and fulfill your vows to the Most High;
    then call upon me in time of distress;
    I will rescue you, and you shall glorify me."