Spiritual Steps to Christmas – First Friday in Advent – YouTube

Evening Meditations for Friday in the First Week of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Consider that God, having created the first man to serve Him and love Him in this life, and to be afterwards taken by Him to reign eternally with Him in Paradise, enriched him for this end with many lights and graces. But ungrateful man rebelled against God, refusing Him the obedience which he owed Him both in justice and gratitude; and thus he unhappily remained as a rebel, deprived, with all his posterity, of Divine grace, and for ever excluded from Paradise.

The Liturgical Year: First Friday in Advent – YouTube

Father Timothy Geckle reads from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B The Liturgical Year: First Friday in Advent

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 6th

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: S. Nicholas of Myra

Saint Nicholas (Greek: Ἅγιος Νικόλαος, Hágios Nikólaos, Latin: Sanctus Nicolaus); (15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also called Nikolaos of Myra, was Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor (modern-day Demre, Turkey), and is a historic Christian saint…

Spiritual Reading for Friday in the First Week of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

St. Jerome spent his days in the Cave of Bethlehem in prayer and penance, and trembled at the thought of Jesus coming at the Last Day to judge the world.

Spiritual Reading for Friday in the First Week of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

St. Jerome spent his days in the Cave of Bethlehem in prayer and penance, and trembled at the thought of Jesus coming at the Last Day to judge the world.