Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Teresa of Avila

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Saint Teresa of Avila

Spiritual Reading for Saturday – Eighteenth Week After Pentecost

In the Thirteenth Century St. Dominic was greatly afflicted at the deplorable state of the Christian world. Vices and heresies filled Germany and France, and had penetrated into Italy and Rome itself. Desiring to oppose a barrier to such a flood of errors and sins, he had recourse to the august Mother of God, who approved of his zealous intentions, and revealed to him as a remedy for so great an evil the devotion of the Rosary.

Morning Meditation for Saturday – Eighteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

If the sinner fears to approach Jesus Christ on account of His Divine Majesty, God has given him an advocate with Jesus Himself, and that advocate is His own Mother Mary. She finds peace for sinners, salvation for the lost, mercy for those who are in despair.