Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Stephen of Hungary

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Stephen of Hungary

Spiritual Reading for Friday – Twelfth Week After Pentecost

What sinner can be so hardened as not to go instantly and cast himself at the feet of his Saviour, when he knows the tender compassion with which Jesus Christ is prepared to embrace him, and carry him on His shoulders, as soon as he repents of his sins?

Morning Meditation for Friday – Twelfth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

O my Jesus, Thou dost pardon penitent sinners, and Thou dost not refuse to give them in this world everything in Holy Communion, and in the next world everything in eternal glory. Where, then, is a heart to be found so amiable and so compassionate as Thine, O my dearest Saviour?