Day: June 10, 2024

26.vi.22 Perpetual Succour / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

Evening Meditations for Monday – Third Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

From whence are wars? … Are they not from your concupiscences?–(James iv. 1, 2). When we are made angry by some contradiction, we fancy we shall find relief and quiet by giving vent to our anger in actions, or at least in words: but we are mistaken, it is not so; for after having done so, we shall find that we are much more disturbed than before. Whoever desires to persevere in uninterrupted peace must beware of ever yielding to ill-humour.

08.viii.21 XI Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Holy Mass / The Domestic Church / Today on ORtv

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland

The Church puts her hope in God from whom she receives her help (Gradual). Our Lord has healed the wounds of mankind (Offertory) and has given us strength and courage (Introit). The theme is infinite charity and the mercy of God.

18.vi.23 III Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for Monday – Third Week After Pentecost

The Saints have not been made Saints by applause and honours, but by injuries and insults. St. Ignatius Martyr, a saintly Bishop who won universal esteem and veneration, was sent to Rome as a criminal, and on his way, experienced from the soldiers who conducted him nothing but the most barbarous insolence.

13.xi.22 XXIII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Monday – Third Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

They who possess God, though they should be in want of everything else, possess all things. They can say: My God and my All! Hence the Saints possess all things, though they have nothing. As having nothing, says St. Paul, and possessing all things (2 Cor. vi. 10).