Spiritual Steps to Christmas – Fourth Monday in Advent – YouTube

Lisa continues her reading from Spiritual Steps to Christmas by the Very Reverend Msgr. Aloysius Coogan. Spiritual Steps to Christmas

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Evening Meditations for the Fourth Monday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Our first parent, Adam, having sinned and rebelled against God, was driven out of Paradise and condemned to everlasting death with all his descendants. But behold the Son of God, Who, seeing man thus lost, in order to deliver him from death offers to take upon Himself human flesh, and to die condemned as a malefactor upon the Cross.

Liturgical Year – Fourth Monday in Advent – YouTube

Father Timothy Geckle continues his readings from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B. Liturgical Year – Fourth Monday

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 23rd On the preparation for the birth of Christ

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Spiritual Reading for the Fourth Monday in Advent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

There are two graces clearly distinct one from the other — the grace of Vocation and the grace of Perseverance in one’s Vocation. Many who have received a Vocation from God have afterwards, through their own fault, rendered themselves unworthy to receive the grace of Perseverance. 

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Feria II of Advent IV

Like the whole liturgy of this season, the purpose of the Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent is to prepare us for the twofold coming of Christ: His coming in mercy at Christmas; and in justice at the end of the world…

Morning Meditation for the Fourth Monday 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?