Night Prayers for Septuagesima ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
During the season of Septuagesima, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church…
Day: January 27, 2024
Septuagesima Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
The Station at Rome is in the church of Saint Lawrence outside the walls. The ancient liturgists observe the relation between the just Abel (whose being murdered by Cain is the subject of one of the responsories of today’s Matins) and the courageous martyr, over whose tomb the Church of Rome commences her Septuagesima…
Evening Meditations for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
This has been the one chief and dearest endeavour of all the Saints, — to desire with their whole heart to endure all toil, contempt and pain, in order to please God, and thus to please that Divine Heart which so much deserves to be loved, and loves us so much.
On Septuagesima; the history, mystery & praxis ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
The Season of Septuagesima comprises the three weeks immediately preceding Lent. It forms one of the principal divisions of the Liturgical Year, and is itself divided into three parts, each part corresponding to a week: the first is called Septuagesima…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 27th On the manifold aggravations that are found in mortal sin
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John Chrysostom
The holy Patriarch of Constantinople received his surname “Chrysostom (golden mouth)” because he was the most eloquent preacher and the most prolific writer of the Greek Church. He was persecuted by the empress Eudoxia and her courtiers. He died in exile A.D. 407…
Spiritual Reading for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle St. John, and was born about the seventieth year of the Christian Era. He was a Christian from his infancy, and on account of his extraordinary piety was greatly beloved by the Apostles, his teachers. St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, writes that he had had the good fortune, when young, to know our Saint who was then far advanced in years, and remarks how strongly impressed on his mind were the instructions he had received from him, and with what delight he remembered having heard him recount his conversations with St. John and others who had seen the Redeemer.
Morning Meditation for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
In the sight of the unwise the servants of God appear to die, as worldlings do, with sorrow and reluctance. But God knows how to console His children even in the midst of the pains of death. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure was taken for misery, and their going away from us for utter destruction; but they are in peace (Wis. iii. 1).