Evening Meditations for December 31st ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Very short and painful were the slumbers of the Infant Jesus. A manger was His cradle, straw was His bed, and straw His pillow; so that the sleep of Jesus was often interrupted by the hardness of this rough and painful little bed, and by the severe cold of the cave. Notwithstanding this, overcome by nature, the sweet Babe from time to time slept amidst His sufferings.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 31st On St Sylvester

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Sylvester, Pope

Saint Sylvester was born in Rome. When he reached the age to dispose of his fortune, he took pleasure in giving hospitality to Christians passing through the city. He would take them with him, wash their feet, serve them at table, and in sum give them in the name of Christ, all the care that the most sincere charity inspired…

A Sermon for Sunday: St Silvester/Sunday Within the Octave of Christmas | Revd Dr Robert Wilson

Dr Robert Wilson’s weekly Sunday sermon…

Spiritual Reading for December 31st ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Some are deterred from entering Religion by the apprehension that their abandonment of the world may be afterwards to them a source of regret. In making choice of a state of life, I would advise such persons to reflect, not on the time given to us to live, but on the hour of death, which will determine their happiness or misery for all eternity.

Morning Meditation for December 31st ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

All flesh is grass. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass is dried up. Behold, life ends, and the flower of all greatness and of all worldly goods falls off! The grass is withered and the flower is fallen!