Homily: St John Damascene (2025)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-w2c5e-1863008 On the feast of St. John Damascene, the Church honors a great defender of the Incarnation who upheld the
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Titular Archbishop of Selsey
Desire, Disorder, and the Call to Spiritual Maturity
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-adn65-185d960 ✠Jerome explains how desire, though made for God, became disordered after the Fall. The issue isn’t desire itself, but
The Battle Within: Overcoming the False Self and Living in the Grace of God
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e6hz7-185d94f ✠Jerome’s second Lenten conference explores the battle against the false self—formed by pride, laziness, and fear. This rebellion shows
Lent: A Time to Know Ourselves and Our Need for Redemption
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y7vkn-185d84e In his Lenten conference, ✠Jerome of the Old Roman Apostolate, emphasizes self-knowledge as the foundation for true conversion. He
Evening Meditations for the Thursday~First Week After Epiphany~ Alphonsus Liguori
Jesus chose to dwell in Egypt during His infancy, that therein He might lead a hard and a more abject life. According to St. Anselm and other writers, the Holy Family lived in Heliopolis. Let us with St. Bonaventure contemplate the life of Jesus during the seven years He remained in Egypt, as was revealed to St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 16th On the necessity of consideration
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Marcellus I, Martyr
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus; Commemoration of the Second Sunday Post Epiphany: Missa “In nomine Jesu”
Spiritual Reading for the Thursday ~ First Week After Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Our Lord, having given us the Blessed Virgin Mary as a model of perfection, it was necessary that she should be laden with sorrows, that in her we may admire heroic patience and endeavour to imitate it. The loss of her Son in the Temple was one of the greatest sorrows that Mary had to endure in her life. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water because the Comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me (Lament. i. 16).
Morning Meditation Thursday–First Week after Epiphany
MEMENTO MORI! REMEMBER DEATH! Oh, how correctly men estimate things, and how well directed their actions whose judgments are formed
Evening Meditations for the Wednesday~First Week After Epiphany~ Alphonsus Liguori
Jesus chose to dwell in Egypt during His infancy, that therein He might lead a hard and a more abject life. According to St. Anselm and other writers, the Holy Family lived in Heliopolis. Let us with St. Bonaventure contemplate the life of Jesus during the seven years He remained in Egypt, as was revealed to St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi.