Morning Meditation for Friday after Corpus Christi ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Heart of Jesus is all pure, all holy, all full of love towards God and towards us. Every perfection, every virtue reigns in this Heart. This is the Heart in which God Himself finds all His delight. O amiable Heart of Jesus, Thou dost well deserve the love of all hearts.

Evening Meditations for Corpus Christi ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

It was a saying of St. Jane Frances de Chantal that “a person who is truly humble takes occasion from receiving some humiliation to humble himself the more.” Yes, for he who is truly humble never supposes himself humbled as much as he deserves.

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Corpus Christi

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Corpus Christi

Spiritual Reading for Corpus Christi ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

To every soul that visits Jesus in the Most. Holy Sacrament, He addresses the words He said to the Sacred Spouse: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come-(Cant. ii. 10). Thou, O soul, that visitest Me, arise from thy miseries; I am here to enrich thee with graces.

Morning Meditation for Corpus Christi ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Most Holy Sacrament is the Gift of God’s pure love. Jesus had already given Himself to us in many ways; as our Companion, our Master, our Father, our Light, our Example, our Victim. “It was the last effort of love when He gave Himself to be our Food.” -(St. Bernardine).

Morning Meditation for Tuesday after Trinity Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Oh, how delighted Jesus is to be united to our souls! To excite souls to receive Him He exhorts them to do so by many invitations. Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you-(Prov. ix. 5). Eat, O friends, and drink,-speaking of this Heavenly Bread and Wine. These invitations all proceed from the ardent desire Jesus has to come to us in this Sacrament.

Evening Meditations for Tuesday after Trinity Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

But it is not enough, in order to be humble, to have a lowly opinion of ourselves, and to consider ourselves the miserable beings that we really are; the man who is truly humble, says Thomas a Kempis, despises himself, and wishes also to be despised by others.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Tuesday after Trinity Sunday

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Spiritual Reading for Tuesday after Trinity Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Luke xii. 34). Jesus Christ says that where a person esteems his treasure to be, there also he keeps his affections.

Evening Meditations for Monday after Trinity Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

It was the saying of St. Teresa, “Think not that thou hast advanced far in perfection till thou considerest thyself the worst of all, and desirest to be placed below all.”