Morning Meditation for Wednesday – Eighteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The cause of all our punishment by God is sin, especially obstinacy in sin. If we do not remove the cause of the scourge, how can we escape the scourge itself?
Month: September 2024
Evening Meditations for the Eighteenth Tuesday 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).
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: September 24th
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Our Lady of Ransom
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Our Lady of Walsingham
Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of Mary the mother of Jesus. The title derives from the belief that Mary appeared in a vision to Richeldis de Faverches, a devout English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. Lady Richeldis had a Holy House built in Walsingham which became a shrine and place of pilgrimage.
Spiritual Reading for Tuesday – Eighteenth Week After Pentecost
“Heu! Consolabor super hostibus meis!” “Alas! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.”
Such is the language of God when He speaks of punishment and vengeance. He says He is constrained by His Justice to punish His enemies. But mark the word: Heu! Alas! — an exclamation by which God would give us to understand how grieved He is when He has to punish creatures whom He so dearly loved as to give His life for love of them
Morning Meditation for Tuesday – Eighteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The cause of all our punishment by God is sin, especially obstinacy in sin. If we do not remove the cause of the scourge, how can we escape the scourge itself?
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: September 23rd
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Linus of Rome, Martyr
Saint Linus was converted in Rome in the days when Saint Peter was preaching the Gospel there. This nobleman, originally from the city of Volterra in Tuscany, left his father and renounced his heritage, to practice with greater perfection the doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He soon gave admirable proofs of his zeal, learning and prudence, and the first Vicar of Christ employed him in preaching and the administration of the Sacraments.
Spiritual Reading for Monday – Eighteenth Week After Pentecost
Oh, surely God is not mocked! (Gal. vi. 7). I never commanded you, God says, to perform those devotions and acts of penance: For I spoke not to your fathers … concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifices, but this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God (Jer. vii. 22-23). What I wish of you, says God, is that you hear My voice and change your life, and make good Confessions with real sorrow, for you must know yourselves, that your other Confessions, followed by so many relapses, have been worth nothing. I wish that you should do violence to yourselves in breaking with that danger, with that compan