Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Joseph Calasanz
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St. Joseph Calasanctius (Calasanz)
Category: 21.viii.22 XI Post Pentecost
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Louis IX of France
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Louis IX of France
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Bartholomew, Apostle
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Bartholomew, Apostle
Evening Meditations for the Thirteenth Friday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Cross began to torture Jesus Christ before He was nailed upon it; for after He was condemned by Pilate, the Cross on which He was to die was given Him to carry to Calvary, and, without refusing, He took it upon His shoulders. Speaking of this, St. Augustine writes: “If we regard the wickedness of His tormentors, the insult was great; if we regard the love of Jesus, the mystery is great; for in carrying the Cross, our Captain then lifted up the Standard under which His followers upon this earth must be enrolled and fight, in order to be made His companions in the kingdom of Heaven.”
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Philip Benizi
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Philip Benizi
Evening Meditations for the Thirteenth Thursday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Cross began to torture Jesus Christ before He was nailed upon it; for after He was condemned by Pilate, the Cross on which He was to die was given Him to carry to Calvary, and, without refusing, He took it upon His shoulders. Speaking of this, St. Augustine writes: “If we regard the wickedness of His tormentors, the insult was great; if we regard the love of Jesus, the mystery is great; for in carrying the Cross, our Captain then lifted up the Standard under which His followers upon this earth must be enrolled and fight, in order to be made His companions in the kingdom of Heaven.”
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Octave Day of the Assumption
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Octave Day of the Assumption
Evening Meditations for the Thirteenth Wednesday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Cross began to torture Jesus Christ before He was nailed upon it; for after He was condemned by Pilate, the Cross on which He was to die was given Him to carry to Calvary, and, without refusing, He took it upon His shoulders. Speaking of this, St. Augustine writes: “If we regard the wickedness of His tormentors, the insult was great; if we regard the love of Jesus, the mystery is great; for in carrying the Cross, our Captain then lifted up the Standard under which His followers upon this earth must be enrolled and fight, in order to be made His companions in the kingdom of Heaven.”
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Jane Frances de Chantal
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Jane Frances de Chantal; Sunday XI Post Pentecost
Evening Meditations for the Eleventh Saturday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
And now behold this Lord, Who was fairest among men, appears on Calvary, His form so disfigured by torments, that it struck horror into all who saw it. Yet this deformity makes Him seem more beautiful in the eyes of souls that love Him, because these Wounds, these marks of the scourging, this lacerated flesh, are all tokens and proofs of the love He bears them; upon which the poet Petrucci beautifully sings, “O Lord, if Thou sufferest scourgings for us, to the souls who love Thee, the more deformed Thou art the more fair dost Thou appear.”