Evening Meditations for the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Cross began to torture Jesus Christ before He was nailed upon it; for after He was condemned by Pilate, the Cross on which He was to die was given Him to carry to Calvary, and, without refusing, He took it upon His shoulders. Speaking of this, St. Augustine writes: “If we regard the wickedness of His tormentors, the insult was great; if we regard the love of Jesus, the mystery is great; for in carrying the Cross, our Captain then lifted up the Standard under which His followers upon this earth must be enrolled and fight, in order to be made His companions in the kingdom of Heaven.”

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: August 27th

AUGUST 27TH ON THE MASTER OF WHOM WE ARE TO LEARN HUMILITY Consider first, that in order to teach us

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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Joseph Calasanctius

St. Joseph Calasanctius was born in Aragon in 1556. Having become a priest it was revealed to him that he should teach the children of the poor. He founded the Order of the Poor Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools of the Mother of God. He was ever a devout pilgrim at the shrines of the martyrs, and daily visited the Churches of Rome, where he lived for fifty years. He died August 25, 1648.

A Sermon for Sunday: St. Joseph Calasanz/ Sunday XIII after Pentecost|Revd Dr Robert Wilson

St. Joseph Calasanz/Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today we celebrate the feast of St. Joseph Calasanz, as well as commemorating the

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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Sunday XIII Post Pentecost

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Sunday XIII Post Pentecost

Spiritual Reading for Sunday – Thirteenth Week After Pentecost

St. Thomas says that Mary was called full of grace, not on the part of grace itself, for she had it not in the highest possible degree, since even the habitual grace of Jesus Christ (according to the same holy Doctor) was not such that the absolute power of God could not have made it greater, although it was a grace sufficient for the end for which His humanity was ordained by Divine Wisdom, that is, for its union with the Person of the Eternal Word. Although Divine power could make something greater and better than the habitual grace of Christ, it could not fit it for anything greater than the personal union with the only-begotten Son of the Father, and to which union that measure of grace sufficiently corresponds, according to the limit placed by Divine Wisdom.

Morning Meditation for Sunday – Thirteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

We err in calling the place where we now dwell our home. After a little while the grave will be the home of our body until the Day of Judgment, and the home of our soul will be the House of Eternity, in Heaven or Hell for ever!

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