Month: August 2024

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

Evening Meditations for the Fourteenth Thursday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Divine Priest, Jesus Christ, Who was both Priest and Victim, by the sacrifice of His life for the salvation of men completed the Sacrifice of the Cross and accomplished the work of the world’s Redemption. By His death Jesus Christ stripped our death of its terrors. Until then it was but the punishment of rebels; but by grace and the merits of our Saviour it becomes a sacrifice so dear to God that when we unite it to the death of Jesus, it makes us worthy to enjoy the same glory that God enjoys, and to hear Him one day say to us, as we hope: Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord! (Matt. xxv.21).

26.viii.23 XIII Post Pentecost / ✠Challoner / Devotional / Features / Today on ORtv

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: August 29th

AUGUST 29TH ON THE OTHER FRUITS OF HUMILITY Consider first, that the moral virtues, as well as the theological, have

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

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; The Decollation of St John the Baptist

Besides the chief feast of St. John the Baptist, that of his nativity, the Church commemorates on the twenty-ninth of August, his glorious death and birth into Heaven. Ever since the Fourth Century in Africa, in the East, in Syria, and in many places all over the world, the beheading of St. John the Baptist has been commemorated on August 29th.

11.ix.22 XIV Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

Spiritual Reading for Thursday – Fourteenth Week After Pentecost

He hath torn me with wound upon wound; he hath rushed in upon me like a giant (Job. xvi. 15). On this text St. Gregory reasons thus: A person assailed by an enemy is rendered unable to defend himself by the first wound which he receives; but, should he receive a second and a third, his strength will be so much exhausted, that death will be the consequence. It is so with sin: after the first and second wound which it inflicts on the soul, she will still have some strength, but only through the Divine grace.

11.ix.22 XIV Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Features / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium / The Domestic Church

Morning Meditation for Thursday – Fourteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

I have loved thee with an everlasting love. And so God has from all eternity loved every human soul. It was for us and for our salvation He sent His only Son into the world to die upon the Cross. Alas, how often have I withdrawn myself from God and sold myself for a nothing to Satan, God’s enemy and my own!

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

Evening Meditations for the Fourteenth Wednesday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Divine Priest, Jesus Christ, Who was both Priest and Victim, by the sacrifice of His life for the salvation of men completed the Sacrifice of the Cross and accomplished the work of the world’s Redemption. By His death Jesus Christ stripped our death of its terrors. Until then it was but the punishment of rebels; but by grace and the merits of our Saviour it becomes a sacrifice so dear to God that when we unite it to the death of Jesus, it makes us worthy to enjoy the same glory that God enjoys, and to hear Him one day say to us, as we hope: Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord! (Matt. xxv.21).

22.viii.21 XIII Post Pentecost / ✠Challoner / Devotional / Old Roman TV / Today on ORtv

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: August 28th

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.

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

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Augustine of Hippo

It was the combined efforts of two saints who had the greatest effects on the life of one of the great Doctors of the Church Saint Augustine of Hippo. Augustine’s mother Saint Monica played a major behind the scenes role in his conversion, while Saint Ambrose was on the front line with Augustine, who had become a great sceptic, teaching, influencing and converting him.

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Spiritual Reading for Wednesday – Fourteenth Week After Pentecost

The habit of sin not only blinds the mind, but it also hardens the heart of the sinner. His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil (Job xli. 15). By the habit of sin the heart becomes like a stone; and, as the anvil is hardened by repeated strokes of the hammer, so, instead of being softened by Divine inspirations or by instructions, the soul of the habitual sinner is rendered more obdurate by sermons on the Judgment of God, on the torments of the damned, or on the Passion of Jesus Christ: his heart shall be firm as a smith’s anvil.

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Morning Meditation for Wednesday – Fourteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

God desires all men to be saved, and He gives His graces to all, but many will not use these means of salvation and are lost, for “Heaven is not for the slothful.”