Spiritual Steps to Christmas – Fourth Sunday 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 22, 2024
Evening Meditations for the Fourth Sunday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Paul says that Jesus Christ, coming on earth, emptied Himself. He annihilated Himself, so to say. And why? To save man and to be loved by man. “Where Thou didst empty Thyself,” says St. Bernard, “there, did Mercy and Charity more brilliantly appear.” Yes, my dear Redeemer, in proportion as Thy abasement was great in becoming Man and in being born an Infant, so were Thy mercy and love shown to be greater towards us, and this with a view to win over our hearts to Thyself.
The Liturgical Year – Fourth Sunday in Advent – YouTube
Father Timothy Geckle continues his readings from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. The Liturgical Year – Fourth
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Gaudete Sunday Advent III
On this day the Church urges us to gladness in the middle of this time of expectation and penitence: the coming of Jesus approaches more and more. This Sunday is called “Gaudete” (Rejoice) from the first word of the Introit. The whole of this Mass is filled with the sentiments of joy with which the Church wishes our souls to be filled at the approach of the Savior…
The Liturgical Year – Fourth Sunday in Advent – YouTube
Father Timothy Geckle continues his readings from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. The Liturgical Year – Fourth
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Sunday Advent IV
The Liturgy reminds us, indeed, during these four weeks or the time during which the world was without Jesus. This Mediator we now await, and since we can go to God only through Him, we implore Him, to hasten His coming (Collect)…
The Fourth Sunday of Advent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
To-day, again, the Church is full of joy, and the joy is greater than it was. It is true that her Lord has not come; but she feels that He is nearer than before, and therefore she thinks it just to lessen some what the austerity of this penitential season by the innocent cheerfulness of her sacred rites. And first, this Sunday has had the name of Gaudete given to it, from the first word of the Introit; it also is honoured with those impressive exceptions which belong to the fourth Sunday of Lent, called Laetare…
Spiritual Reading for the Fourth Sunday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Octavius Augustus, the Emperor of Rome, wishing to know the strength of his empire, decreed that there be a general numbering of all his subjects; and for this purpose he ordered the governors of all the provinces — and, among the rest, Cyrinus, governor of Judea — to make every one come to enroll himself, and at the same time pay a certain tribute as a sign of vassalage: There went out a decree … that the whole world should be enrolled (Luke ii. 1).
Morning Meditation for the Fourth Sunday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Saviour of the world, Whom, according to the Prophet Isaias, men were to see one day on the earth — and all flesh shall see the salvation of God — has come. And He came on earth, says St. Augustine, that men might know how much God loves them. And how is it, O my dear Jesus, that Thou dost meet with so much ingratitude from the greater number of men?