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 9, 2023
Evening Meditations for Septuagesima Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
God has declared that He loves all those who love Him: I love them that love me (Prov. viii. 17). But it is not to be supposed that God will give Himself entirely to one who loves anything in the world equally with God. At one time St. Teresa was in this state, keeping up an affection, not indeed an impure affection, but an inordinate one, for a certain relative. When, however, she divested herself of this attachment, God was pleased to say to her in a vision: “Now that thou art wholly Mine, I am wholly thine.”
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 9th On the manner of doing penance for our sins
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Apollonia of Alexandria
At Alexandria, in 249, a mob rose in savage fury against the Christians, during a persecution which the pagans of Alexandria instigated at the urging of a magician of that city…
Thursday 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 Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
I am to be baptized with the Baptism of My own Blood, and I feel myself dying through a desire that My Passion and death may come soon that thus man may know the love I bear him. Ah, my Jesus, men do not love Thee because they do not think of the love Thou hast had for them….
Morning Meditations for Septuagesima Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
I am to be baptized with the Baptism of My own Blood, and I feel myself dying through a desire that My Passion and death may come soon that thus man may know the love I bear him. Ah, my Jesus, men do not love Thee because they do not think of the love Thou hast had for them….