Liturgical Year: January 15 – YouTube
Kevin Davis reads from Abbot Dom Gueranger’s classic, “The Liturgical Year” Liturgical Year: January 15 – YouTube
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Titular Archbishop of Selsey
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 15th On Our Lord’s changing water into wine at the marriage-feast of Cana St John ii
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Paul of Thebes
Today is the feast of Saint Paul the Hermit, father of hermits, who had St. Jerome for his historian. Having become an orphan at the age of fifteen, he gave up his possessions and retired into a desert where a flourishing palm-tree, a symbol of is virtues (Introit) provided him with food and clothing…
Spiritual Reading for the Wednesday ~ 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 for the Wednesday ~ 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).
Evening Meditations for the 14th Day of January ~ 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 14th On the Sacred Name of Jesus: the first Sunday after the Epiphany Octave
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Hilary of Poitiers
After having persecuted the Church during the first centuries, the Christian, but at the same time heretical emperors, continued their attacks by supporting Arianism which denied the divinity of Christ. In the season after Epiphany, when Jesus affirms His divinity by His teaching and miracles, the first saint whom the Church presents to us is one of the more intrepid defenders of this fundamental dogma of Christianity. St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers…
Spiritual Reading for the 14th Day of January ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
There are some who assert, and not without reason, that this Dolour was not only one of the greatest, but the greatest and most painful of all.
Morning Meditation for the 14th Day of January ~ 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).