Day: December 8, 2023

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Evening Meditations for Friday in the First Week 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.

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 8th

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The feast speaks to us, by example of the Blessed Virgin, of the uniqueness of our individual creation – God’s conception of us in His eternal mind and His purposing us by our physical conception. Just as Our Lady was intended by God from all time to be the vessel and tabernacle of the Incarnate Word, so too are we each purposed by God to play a role in the salvation of mankind…

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Spiritual Reading for Friday in the First Week 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.

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Morning Meditation for Friday of the First Week 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).