Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: November 3rd On the obligation of Christians to be saints
A brief meditation for Christians from Bishop ✠Richard Challoner for everyday of the year.
Day: November 3, 2022
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Winifred, Virgin & Martyr
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Winifred
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feria III All Saints Octave
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feria III All Saints Octave
Spiritual Reading for Thursday – Twenty-first Week After Pentecost
St. Teresa relates of herself, that the greatest graces she received from God were infused into her soul when she humbled herself most before the Lord in prayer. The prayer of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the clouds, and he will not depart till the Most High behold (Ecclus. xxxv. 21). The humble obtain from God whatever they ask: they need not be afraid of being confounded, or of being left without consolation. Let not, says David, the humble be turned away with confusion (Ps. lxxiii. 21)
Morning Meditation for Thursday – Twenty-first Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The greatest punishment God can inflict on a sinner is to let him sleep on in his sins, buried in the sleep of death. I will make them drunk that they may … sleep an everlasting sleep and awake no more, saith the Lord. On the contrary, it is a sign of mercy for the sinner when God chastises him here below. When the surgeon uses the knife it is not to kill but to cure.
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