Night Prayers for Gesima/Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Lent, the Christian, on preparing for sleep, will unite himself with the Church…
Day: February 7, 2023
Evening Meditations for Septuagesima Tuesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Accursed sin robbed us of Divine grace and made us the slaves of hell, but, to the astonishment of Heaven and of all nature, the Son of God came on earth as Man in order to redeem us from eternal death and purchase for us grace and eternal glory which we had lost. He emptied himself taking the form of a servant … and in habit found as a man (Phil. ii. 7)…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 7th On the sentiments of a penitent sinner
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Find interior peace with the Brief Rule of St. Romuald
The holy monk left a very short rule to follow that can open your soul to God’s presence. Find interior
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Romuald, Abbot
St. Romuald was born in Ravenna of a noble family. Founder of the Camaldolese monks — one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines — in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community…
Today’s Saint(s): St Romuald, Abbot (906-†1027)
In the tenth century Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarreled with a relative over an estate and, in a duel to which his son Romuald was witness, slew him. The young man of twenty years was horrified at his father’s crime, and entered a Benedictine monastery at Classe to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance led to his entry into religion as a Benedictine monk…
Tuesday Morning Prayers for Septuagesima ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Septuagesima, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Spiritual Reading for Septuagesima Tuesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Accursed sin robbed us of Divine grace and made us the slaves of hell, but, to the astonishment of Heaven and of all nature, the Son of God came on earth as Man in order to redeem us from eternal death and purchase for us grace and eternal glory which we had lost. He emptied himself taking the form of a servant … and in habit found as a man (Phil. ii. 7)…