Spiritual Reading for the Third Wednesday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

O ye atheists who believe not in God, fools that you are! If you do not believe that there is a God, tell me who created you? How can you imagine that there are creatures existing, without a previous Power having created them? This world which you admire, governed as it is in so beautiful and constant an order, — could chance, which has neither order nor mind, ever have made it?

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 24th On the vanity of all those things, that keep worldlings from the service of God

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Timothy of Ephesus

Saint Timothy was a convert of Saint Paul, born at Lystra in Asia Minor. His mother was a daughter of Israel, but his father was a pagan, and though Timothy had read the Scriptures from his childhood, he had never been circumcised. On the arrival of Saint Paul at Lystra the youthful Timothy, with his mother and grandmother, eagerly embraced the faith…

Spiritual Reading for the Third Wednesday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

O ye atheists who believe not in God, fools that you are! If you do not believe that there is a God, tell me who created you? How can you imagine that there are creatures existing, without a previous Power having created them? This world which you admire, governed as it is in so beautiful and constant an order, — could chance, which has neither order nor mind, ever have made it?

Morning Meditation for the Third Wednesday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

What will be the feelings of the worldling when he is told that death is at hand? What pain will he feel in hearing these words: Your illness is mortal. It is necessary to receive the Last Sacraments, to unite yourself to God, to prepare to bid farewell to the world. What! exclaims the sick man, must I leave all? Yes, you must leave all! Thou shalt die and not live!