Spiritual Steps to Christmas – Ember Saturday 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 21, 2024
Evening Meditations for the Third Saturday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Consider the painful life that Jesus led in the womb of His Mother, and the long, close and dark imprisonment that He suffered there for nine months. Other infants are, indeed, in the same state, but they do not feel the miseries of it because they do not know them. But Jesus knew them well, because from the first moment of His life He had the perfect use of His reason, He had His senses, but He could not use them; eyes, but He could not see; a tongue, but He could not speak; hands, but He could not stretch them out; feet, but He could not walk — so that for nine months He had to remain in the womb of Mary like a dead man shut up in the tomb: I am become as a man without help, free among the dead (Ps. lxxxvii. 5, 6).
Old Roman News w/c 22/12/24
The article “Nuntiatoria XXXVII: Verbum Caro” explores the significance of the Incarnation during Advent and Christmas. It highlights the mystery of “Verbum Caro,” urging readers to reflect on Christ’s transformative birth. It encourages embodying the virtues of St. John the Apostle, fostering a deeper understanding of living out the Incarnation’s message.
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Thomas, Apostle
Saint Thomas, called Didymus, that is “the twin,” was probably a Galilean of lowly condition and a fisherman. He was chosen to be one of the apostles in the year 31, as can be determined from the mention of his name in the catalogue of the apostles in St. Matthew…
Spiritual Reading for the Third Saturday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
My beloved reader and brother in Mary: Since the devotion that led me to write, and moves you to read what I write, makes us happy children of the same good Mother, should you hear it remarked that I might have spared myself the labour, as there are already so many celebrated and learned books on the same subject, I beg that you will reply that “the praise of Mary is an inexhaustible fount.
Morning Meditation for the Third Saturday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The divine Mother loves all men. How much, then, does not this great Queen love Religious who have consecrated their liberty, their life, and their all to the love of Jesus Christ, her Son? My happiness on this earth, O Mary, shall be to serve, bless and to love thee.