Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Dedication of the Basilicas of St. Peter & Paul
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Dedication of the Basilicas of St. Peter & Paul
Category: 12.xi.23 XXIV Post Pentecost
Spiritual Reading for Saturday – Twenty-fourth Week After Pentecost
Oh, what an evident sign of predestination have the servants of Mary! St. Bonaventure says the gates of Heaven open to all who confide in Mary’s protection. St. Ambrose prays: “Open to us, O Mary, the gate of Paradise, for thou hast its keys!” And Holy Church prays to Mary: “Gate of Heaven, pray for us!”
Morning Meditation for Saturday – Twenty-fourth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Bernard calls the Blessed Virgin “the heavenly Chariot.” St. John Geometra salutes her: “Hail! resplendent car!” signifying that she is the car in which her clients mount to Heaven. “Blessed are they who know thee, O Mother of God,” says St. Bonaventure; “for the knowledge of thee is the high road to everlasting life, and the proclaiming of thy virtues is the way of eternal salvation.”
Evening Meditations for the Twenty-fourth Friday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
O Christian, lift up your eyes, and behold your Jesus dead on the gibbet of the Cross. Look at His body full of wounds and streams of blood flowing. Faith teaches you that He is your Creator, your Saviour, your Life, your Deliverer; and that He, Whose love for you exceeds the love of all others, is the only Being that can make you happy.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: November 17th
A brief meditation for Christians from Bishop ✠Richard Challoner for everyday of the year.
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St. Hugh of Lincoln
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St. Hugh of Lincoln
Spiritual Reading for Friday – Twenty-fourth Week After Pentecost
O my Jesus, by that humiliation which Thou didst practise in washing the feet of Thy disciples, I pray Thee to bestow upon me the grace of true humility, that I may humble myself to all, especially to such as treat me with contempt.
Morning Meditation for Friday – Twenty-fourth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Jesus Crucified! Oh, what a spectacle to the Angels in Heaven to behold a God Crucified! And we? What sentiments should we conceive when we behold the King of Heaven hanging on a gibbet, covered with wounds, agonising, dying of pure unmitigated pain! O death of Jesus! O love of Jesus, take possession of all my thoughts and affections!
Evening Meditations for the Twenty-fourth Thursday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Thomas of Villanova gives us excellent encouragement, saying: “What art thou afraid of, O sinner? … How shall He reject thee if thou desirest to retain Him Who came down from Heaven to seek thee?” Let not the sinner, then, be afraid, provided he will be no more a sinner, but will love Jesus Christ; let him not be dismayed, but have full trust; if he abhor and hate sin, and seek God, let him not be sad, but full of joy: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord (Ps. civ. 3).
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: November 16th
A brief meditation for Christians from Bishop ✠Richard Challoner for everyday of the year.