‘Christmas, A Message of Hope’, a GB News special for the festive weekend – Catholic Herald

The fading of Christian faith as a vital force in modern Britain is nowhere more evident than in the broadcast

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 23rd On the preparation for the birth of Christ

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Feria VI of Advent IV

Feria VI of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Missa “Rorate, coeli,”

Spiritual Reading for the Fourth Friday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The first means for persevering in the Religious State is to avoid wilful faults. Let each one be persuaded that the devil tempts him to commit faults, not so much that he may do evil, as that he may lose his Vocation, for by deliberate faults he begins to lose his fervour in prayer, at Communion, and all the spiritual exercises.

Morning Meditation for the Fourth Friday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Behold the end for which the Son of God willed to be born an Infant — to give Himself to us from His Childhood, and thus draw to Himself our love. Thus He wished to be born because He wished to be loved.