Evening Meditations for the First Sunday of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Consider that God, having created the first man to serve Him and love Him in this life, and to be afterwards taken by Him to reign eternally with Him in Paradise, enriched him for this end with many lights and graces. But ungrateful man rebelled against God, refusing Him the obedience which he owed Him both in justice and gratitude; and thus he unhappily remained as a rebel, deprived, with all his posterity, of Divine grace, and for ever excluded from Paradise.

Spiritual Steps to Christmas: First Sunday in Advent – YouTube

Lisa continues her reading from Spiritual Steps to Christmas by the Very Reverend Msgr. Aloysius Coogan. (9) Spiritual Steps to

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 3rd on the miracles of Christ Our Lord

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: First Sunday of Advent

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: First Sunday of Advent

A Sermon for Sunday: First Sunday of Advent; Revd Fr Robert Wilson PhD

A Sermon for Sunday: First Sunday of Advent; Revd Fr Robert Wilson PhD

The Liturgical Year: First Sunday in Advent – YouTube

Father Timothy Geckle reads from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. (9) The Liturgical Year: First Sunday in

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Spiritual Reading for the First Sunday of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

St. Jerome spent his days in the Cave of Bethlehem in prayer and penance, and trembled at the thought of Jesus coming at the Last Day to judge the world.

The First Sunday of Advent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger – Sensus Fidelium

This Sunday, the first of the ecclesiastical year, is called, in the chronicles and charts of the middle ages, Ad te levavi Sunday, from the first words of the Introit; or, Aspiciens a longe, from the first words of one of the responsories of Matins…

Morning Meditation for the First Sunday of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

In tribulations God enriches His beloved souls with the greatest graces. It is in his chains that St. John comes to the knowledge of the works of Jesus Christ. Let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which we are chastised have happened for our amendment and not for our destruction (Judith, viii. 27).