Lumen Gentium: The Christmas Octave – YouTube
✠Jerome of Selsey explores and explains the theology, themes and traditions of the Traditional Roman Rite liturgies of the Christmas
Day: December 26, 2022
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 26th On St Stephen
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr
St Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr
A Sermon for… St Stephen, Protomartyr | Revd Dr Robert Wilson
Dr Robert Wilson’s weekly Sunday sermon…
Spiritual Reading for St Stephen’s Day ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Well may the words addressed by Moses to God in regard to the children of Israel, after their delivery from the tyranny of Pharaoh, and the bondage of Egypt, be applied to Religious: In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed, and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation (Exod. xv. 13). As the Hebrews, compared with the Egyptians, were, in the Old Law, the beloved people of God, so are Religious, contrasted with seculars, in the New Law.
Morning Meditation for St Stephen’s Day ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Heretofore we were all slaves of hell. But what has the Eternal Word and Sovereign Lord done to free us from this slavery? Ah, who would have believed it if holy Faith did not assure us of it? Who could ever have conceived it? But holy Faith tells us and assures us that this Supreme and Sovereign Lord, being in the form of God, emptied himself, taking the form of a servant — to release us from the slavery of our deadly foe.
The Christmas Truce of 1914: Here’s what really happened | Catholic News Agency
The experience of fighting in “The Great War,” World War I, was marked by brutality and misery on a scale