Day: August 18, 2024

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Evening Meditations for the Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori

All antiquity asserts that St. John was ever a virgin, and especially on this account was he given as a son to Mary, and honoured in being made to occupy the place of Jesus Christ; on which account the holy Church sings: “To John, a virgin, He commended His Virgin Mother.” And from the moment of the Lord’s death, as it is written, St. John received Mary into his own house, and assisted and obeyed her throughout her life, as if she had been his own mother. Jesus Christ willed that this beloved disciple should be an eye-witness of His death, in order that he might more confidently bear witness to it in his Gospel, and might be able to say: He that saw it hath given testimony (Jo. xix. 35). And on this account the Lord, at the time when the other disciples abandoned Him, gave St. John strength to be present until His death in the midst of so many enemies.

13.viii.23 XI Post Pentecost / ✠Challoner / Devotional / Old Roman TV / Today on ORtv

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: August 18th

We commemorate with Mary the Mystery of the Incarnation as we live the Resurrection life of the redeemed in the power of the Holy Spirit. Followed by a brief meditation for Christians from Bishop ✠Richard Challoner for everyday of the year.

08.viii.21 XI Post Pentecost / 13.viii.23 XI Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Holy Mass / The Domestic Church / Today on ORtv

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Hyacinth of Poland

Saint Hyacinth, named the glorious Apostle of the North, was born of noble parents in Poland, about the year 1185. In 1218, as a Canon of Cracow he accompanied the bishop of that region to Rome. There he met Saint Dominic and soon afterward was one of the first to receive the habit of the Friar Preachers, in a group clothed by the patriarch himself.

04.ix.22 XIII Post Pentecost / 26.viii.23 XIII Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

Spiritual Reading for Sunday – Thirteenth Week After Pentecost

St. Thomas says that Mary was called full of grace, not on the part of grace itself, for she had it not in the highest possible degree, since even the habitual grace of Jesus Christ (according to the same holy Doctor) was not such that the absolute power of God could not have made it greater, although it was a grace sufficient for the end for which His humanity was ordained by Divine Wisdom, that is, for its union with the Person of the Eternal Word. Although Divine power could make something greater and better than the habitual grace of Christ, it could not fit it for anything greater than the personal union with the only-begotten Son of the Father, and to which union that measure of grace sufficiently corresponds, according to the limit placed by Divine Wisdom.

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Morning Meditation for Sunday – Thirteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

We err in calling the place where we now dwell our home. After a little while the grave will be the home of our body until the Day of Judgment, and the home of our soul will be the House of Eternity, in Heaven or Hell for ever!