Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 9th On the manner of doing penance for our sins
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 06.ii.22 Epiphany V
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Apollonia of Alexandria
At Alexandria, in 249, a mob rose in savage fury against the Christians, during a persecution which the pagans of Alexandria instigated at the urging of a magician of that city…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 8th On doing penance for our sins
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John of Matha
Father Matha lived during the time of the Crusades when Christians fought religious wars against the Moors. Thousands of Christians had been captured by the Moors and were forced into slavery, and some were tortured if they would not deny their faith. After his vision, John thought of a plan to rescue the Christian slaves. He would offer a ransom for them!
Today’s Saint(s): St John of Matha (1160-†1213)
St John of Matha & St Cuthman of Steyning
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 7th On the sentiments of a penitent sinner
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Find interior peace with the Brief Rule of St. Romuald
The holy monk left a very short rule to follow that can open your soul to God’s presence. Find interior
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Romuald, Abbot
St. Romuald was born in Ravenna of a noble family. Founder of the Camaldolese monks — one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines — in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community…
Today’s Saint(s): St Romuald, Abbot (906-†1027)
In the tenth century Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarreled with a relative over an estate and, in a duel to which his son Romuald was witness, slew him. The young man of twenty years was horrified at his father’s crime, and entered a Benedictine monastery at Classe to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance led to his entry into religion as a Benedictine monk…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 6th On turning from sin to God
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner