Evening Meditations for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditation THE PRACTICE OF THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST I. VI.-HOW DESERVING JESUS CHRIST IS OF OUR LOVE ON
Day: April 8, 2024
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The mystery of the Incarnation has earned for Blessed Mary her most glorious title, that of “Mother of God” (Collect), in Greek “Theotokos” a name which the Eastern Church always inscribed in letters of gold, like a diadem on the forehead of her images or statues. “Standing on the threshold of divinity” since she gave to the Word of God the flesh to which He was hypostatically united, the Virgin has always been honored by a supereminent worship, that of hyperdulia. “The Son of the Father and the Son of the Virgin naturally become a single and identical son, ” says St. Anselm : hence Mary is queen of the human race and is to be venerated by all (Introit).
Spiritual Reading for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
I do not wish that any soul be disturbed by what has been said in regard to concealing sins through a false shame. What I have said is applicable only to those who have a consciousness of grievous and certain sins, and who, through shame, will not confess them. With regard to doubts, which some may have of having committed certain sins, or of having made bad confessions, if they wish to disclose them to a confessor for their greater tranquillity, they will do well, unless they have a scrupulous conscience…
Morning Meditations for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Son of God wished to present Himself under the form of a sweet little Child that thus He might the more readily and the more forcibly draw to Himself the love of men. Little children of themselves are loved at once. To see them and to love them is the same thing. Thus, then, would He be born Who willed to be loved and not feared.