Holy Thursday

Station:  St. John Lateran.  Another break from tradition this year is that the Holy Father has chosen not to celebrate the Mass In Coena Domini at his cathedral, but at the local youth prison.  This is not, as at Ash Wednesday, to allow more people to come, but to allow fewer--only a particular group of those who are unable to attend Mass at the Lateran, or any other normal venue for a papal function. 

Quote, again from The Three Ages of the Interior Life:

The necessity of prayer is founded on the necessity of actual grace. Except for the first grace, which is gratuitously given to us without our praying for it, since it is the very principle of prayer, it is a thoroughly established truth that prayer is the normal, efficacious, and universal means by which God wishes that we should obtain all the actual graces we need. This is why our Lord inculcates so often the necessity of prayer to obtain grace. He says: "Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened." (7) He recalls this necessity of prayer to obtain actual grace, especially when temptation is to be resisted: "Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." (8) In prayer we ought to recognize that God is the Author of all good; and therefore all confidence not founded on prayer is presumptuous.(9)
Therefore the Council of Trent declares in St. Augustine's own words: "God never commands the impossible, but in commanding He tells us to do what we can, to ask for that which we are not able to do, and He helps us in order that we may be able." (10) By His actual grace He even helps us to pray. There are, consequently, actual graces which we can obtain only by prayer.(11)
We could not insist too strongly on this point, for many beginners, unwittingly impregnated with practical naturalism, as the Pelagians and the Semi-Pelagians were, imagine that everything can be attained with will and energy, even without actual grace. Experience soon shows them the profound truth of Christ's words: "Without Me you can do nothing," and also that of St. Paul's statement: "It is God who worketh in you both to will and to accomplish." Therefore we must ask Him for the actual grace ever more faithfully to keep the commandments, especially the supreme precept of the love of God and of our neighbor.