Evening Meditations for Saturday – Fourth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord-(Apoc. xiv. 13). We must, indeed, die in the Lord to be blessed, and to enjoy that blessedness here in the present life: we mean, such blessedness as can be had before entering Heaven, which, though certainly much below that of Heaven, yet far surpasses all the pleasures of sense in this world: And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts-(PhiI. iv. 7); so wrote the Apostle to his disciples.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: June 22

JUNE 22ND ON THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Consider first, the infinite goodness of God, who not content with instituting in

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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feast of Saint Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain

S.  Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain : Missa “In virtúte tua, Dómine“ A man called Alban, believed to have been a Romano-British

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Spiritual Reading for Saturday – Fourth 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.

Morning Meditation for Saturday – Fourth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

During the day make frequently an offering of yourself to God, as St. Teresa used to do, saying: Lord, here I am! Do with me what pleaseth Thee! She used to say that all he who practises prayer should seek is to conform his will to the divine will; and let him be assured that in this consists the highest perfection.