Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 28th On the presumption, folly and madness of the wilful sinner
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 21.i.24 Epiphany III
Evening Meditations for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
This has been the one chief and dearest endeavour of all the Saints, — to desire with their whole heart to endure all toil, contempt and pain, in order to please God, and thus to please that Divine Heart which so much deserves to be loved, and loves us so much.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 27th On the manifold aggravations that are found in mortal sin
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John Chrysostom
The holy Patriarch of Constantinople received his surname “Chrysostom (golden mouth)” because he was the most eloquent preacher and the most prolific writer of the Greek Church. He was persecuted by the empress Eudoxia and her courtiers. He died in exile A.D. 407…
Spiritual Reading for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle St. John, and was born about the seventieth year of the Christian Era. He was a Christian from his infancy, and on account of his extraordinary piety was greatly beloved by the Apostles, his teachers. St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, writes that he had had the good fortune, when young, to know our Saint who was then far advanced in years, and remarks how strongly impressed on his mind were the instructions he had received from him, and with what delight he remembered having heard him recount his conversations with St. John and others who had seen the Redeemer.
Morning Meditation for the Third Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
In the sight of the unwise the servants of God appear to die, as worldlings do, with sorrow and reluctance. But God knows how to console His children even in the midst of the pains of death. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure was taken for misery, and their going away from us for utter destruction; but they are in peace (Wis. iii. 1).
Evening Meditations for the Third Friday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
God has loved man from all eternity: I have loved thee with an everlasting love (Jer. xxxi. 3). St. Bernard says that before the Incarnation of the Word the Divine Power appeared in creating the world, and the Divine Wisdom in governing it, but when the Son of God became Man, then was made manifest the Love which God had for men. And, in fact, after seeing Jesus Christ accept so afflicted a life and so painful a death, we would be offering Him an insult if we doubted the great love which He bears us.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 26th On the evil of mortal sin
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Polycarp of Smyrna
Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, was a disciple of Saint John. He wrote to the Philippians, exhorting them to mutual love and to hatred of heresy..
Spiritual Reading for the Third Friday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Arcadius was a native of Africa, and most probably suffered Martyrdom in Caesarea (at present Cherchell, a small village in the province of Mascara, in Algiers), the capital of Mauritania. A furious persecution was raging — during which the Christians were cruelly dragged before the idols to sacrifice. Arcadius withdrew to a solitary place, where he employed his time in fasting and prayer. Meanwhile as he did not appear at the public sacrifices, soldiers were despatched to surprise him in his house, but not finding him, they arrested one of his relatives in order to make him discover the retreat of his kinsman.