Day: October 20, 2023

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Evening Meditations for the Twenty-first Friday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Prophet Isaias called our Redeemer a man of sorrows and acquainted with infimities (Is. liii. 3). Contemplating the sorrows of Jesus Christ, Salvian exclaimed, “O Love, I know not whether to call Thee sweet or severe: Thou dost appear to be both.” O Love of my Jesus, I know not what to call Thee. Thou hast indeed been sweet towards us in loving us after so much ingratitude; but to Thyself Thou hast been cruel to excess, in choosing a life so full of pains, and in suffering a death so full of bitterness, in order to atone for our sins.

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: October 20th

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Octave Day of St Edward

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Octave Day of St Edward, Commemoration of St John Cantius

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Spiritual Reading for Friday – Twentieth Week After Pentecost

The first means is Mental Prayer, and particularly Meditation on the claims God has on our love, and on His love for us, especially in the great work of our Redemption. To redeem us, God even sacrificed His life in a sea of sorrows and contempt; and to obtain our love, He has gone so far as to make Himself our food. To inflame the soul with the fire of Divine love, these truths must be frequently meditated upon. In my meditation, says David, a fire shall flame out (Ps. xxxviii. 4). When I contemplate the goodness of my God, the flames of charity fill my whole heart. St. Aloysius used to say, that to attain eminent sanctity a high degree of mental prayer is necessary.

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Morning Meditation for Friday – Twentieth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

There is no means that can more surely kindle Divine love in us than to consider the Passion of Jesus Christ. St. Bonaventure says that the Wounds of Jesus, because they are the Wounds of love, are darts which pierce the hardest hearts, and flames which set on fire the coldest souls. “O wounds, wounding stony hearts and inflaming frozen minds!”