Category: 06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for Friday – Twenty-second Week After Pentecost

If you wish to acquire perfect humility, accept in peace all the contempt and bad treatment you may receive. These are easily borne by all who truly believe that in punishment of their sins they merit nothing but scoffs and insults. Humiliation is the touchstone of sanctity. St. John Chrysostom says that to receive an affront with meekness is the most certain proof of virtue. In his History of Japan, Father Crasset relates that during the last persecution, in consequence of having received an insult without resenting it, a certain Augustinian missionary, though disguised, was instantly taken for a Christian, and cast into prison, by the idolaters, who asserted that no one but a Christian could practise such virtue.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Friday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

We have seen him … despised and the most abject of men (Is. liii. 2, 3). This great prodigy was once seen upon earth — the Son of God, the Lord of all Creation, the King of Heaven, despised as the most abject of men! Ah, how few there are, even among Christians, who reflect on the sorrows and ignominies which this Saviour endured for our sakes!

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for Thursday – Twenty-second Week After Pentecost

To preserve humility you must not allow yourself to be disquieted by reproof or correction. He who, when rebuked, yields to disquietude, shows that he has not yet acquired humility, and therefore should beg of God that holy virtue, which is so necessary for salvation. Father Rodriguez says that some resemble the hedgehog: when touched they become all thorns, and instantly break out into words of impatience, of reproach, and even of murmuring.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Thursday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

In this mortal life, meat is that which preserves our life. Our Divine Lord said it was His meat to do the will of His Father. Life in his will (Ps. xxix. 6). Our life depends upon our doing the Divine will; he that does it not, is dead.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for Wednesday – Twenty-second Week After Pentecost

As you ought carefully to abstain from all complacency in the praises that you receive from others, so you must abstain with still greater caution from seeking any office of rank or dignity. “You must,” as St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi says, “avoid with all possible care every exercise that is apt to attract attention, for it is in such exercises that pride delights.”

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Wednesday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

He who is conformed in everything to the Divine will, enjoys perpetual peace even in this life. Whatsoever shall befall the just man, it shall not make him sad (Prov. xii. 21). At the mere word — the Will of God — St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi used to feel so much delight she would fall into an ecstasy of love.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Tuesday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Many there are who ask graces from God but do not obtain them. And why is this? St. James answers and says they receive not because they do not ask as they should. You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss (iv. 3). How can God hear the sinner who prays to Him to be freed from affliction, when he will not abandon sin which is the cause of all his miseries? We cannot expect to be heard unless our prayer be accompanied by a firm purpose to amend.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Tuesday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Many there are who ask graces from God but do not obtain them. And why is this? St. James answers and says they receive not because they do not ask as they should. You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss (iv. 3). How can God hear the sinner who prays to Him to be freed from affliction, when he will not abandon sin which is the cause of all his miseries? We cannot expect to be heard unless our prayer be accompanied by a firm purpose to amend.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / 29.x.23 XXII Poste Pentecost / Culture / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Gesima / Lent / Lifestyle / Liturgy / Sensus Fidelium

Spiritual Reading for Monday – Twenty-second Week After Pentecost

Consider yourself the greatest sinner on this earth. They who are truly humble, because they are most perfectly enlightened by God, possess the most perfect knowledge, not only of the Divine perfections, but also, of their own miseries and sins.

06.xi.22 XXII Post Pentecost / 29.x.23 XXII Poste Pentecost / Daily Mass Propers / Devotional / Sensus Fidelium

Morning Meditation for Monday – Twenty-second Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

God wishes that we should all be saved, as the Apostle assures us when he says God will have all men to be saved (1 Tim. ii. 4). And although He sees so many sinners who deserve hell, He does not wish any of them to be lost but that they be restored to grace by penance and saved. Not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance (2 Peter iii. 9).