Spiritual Steps to Christmas – Second Friday in Advent – YouTube
Lisa continues her reading from Spiritual Steps to Christmas by the Very Reverend Msgr. Aloysius Coogan. Spiritual Steps to Christmas
Day: December 13, 2024
Evening Meditations for Friday in the Second 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 – Second Friday in Advent – YouTube
Father Timothy Geckle continues his readings from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. The Liturgical Year – Second
Old Romans News w/c 15/12/24
The “Nuntiatoria XXXVI: Gaudéte” newsletter from December 13, 2024, highlights joy and reflection during Advent, examines Gaudete Sunday, and the “O Antiphons.” It addresses issues like the Syrian Christian crisis, Notre-Dame’s reopening, UK policies on puberty blockers, LGBT ministries, and suggests resources to enhance spiritual growth during this season.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 13th On the wonders of God in the incarnation of His Son…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Lucy of Syracuse
Hagiography states that Saint Lucy was a Christian martyr during the Diocletian persecution. According to apocryphal texts, the beautiful Lucia was born to a prosperous family of nobility in Syracuse on the island of Sicily. In the days of early Christian persecution, legends say that Lucia carried food to Christians hiding in dark underground tunnels. To light the way she wore a wreath of candles on her head.
Spiritual Reading for Friday in the Second 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.
Morning Meditation for Friday in the Second Week of Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
In tribulations God enriches His beloved souls with the greatest graces. It is in his chains that St. John comes to the knowledge of the works of Jesus Christ. Let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which we are chastised have happened for our amendment and not for our destruction (Judith, viii. 27).