Spiritual Reading for Low Tuesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

I do not wish that any soul be disturbed by what has been said in regard to concealing sins through a false shame. What I have said is applicable only to those who have a consciousness of grievous and certain sins, and who, through shame, will not confess them. With regard to doubts, which some may have of having committed certain sins, or of having made bad confessions, if they wish to disclose them to a confessor for their greater tranquillity, they will do well, unless they have a scrupulous conscience…

Morning Meditations for Low Tuesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Morning Meditation Purity of Intention In the estimation of men, the value of an act increases in proportion to the

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Evening Meditations for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Evening Meditation THE PRACTICE OF THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST I. VI.-HOW DESERVING JESUS CHRIST IS OF OUR LOVE ON

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Spiritual Reading for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

I do not wish that any soul be disturbed by what has been said in regard to concealing sins through a false shame. What I have said is applicable only to those who have a consciousness of grievous and certain sins, and who, through shame, will not confess them. With regard to doubts, which some may have of having committed certain sins, or of having made bad confessions, if they wish to disclose them to a confessor for their greater tranquillity, they will do well, unless they have a scrupulous conscience…

Morning Meditations for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Son of God wished to present Himself under the form of a sweet little Child that thus He might the more readily and the more forcibly draw to Himself the love of men. Little children of themselves are loved at once. To see them and to love them is the same thing. Thus, then, would He be born Who willed to be loved and not feared.

Low Sunday ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

Our neophytes closed the Octave of the Resurrection yesterday. They were before us in receiving the admirable mystery; their solemnity would finish earlier than ours. This, then, is the eighth clay for us who kept the Pasch on the Sunday, and did not anticipate it on the vigil. It reminds us of all the glory and joy of that Feast of Feasts, which united the whole of Christendom in one common feeling of triumph.

Morning Meditations for Low Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

A false balance is in his hand (Osee xii. 7). In these words the Holy Spirit warns us not to be deceived by the world, because the world weighs its goods in a false balance; we should weigh them in the true balance of Faith, which will show us what are the true goods. Oh, how wretched I have been, O Lord, in having, for so many years, gone after the vanities of the world, and left Thee, the Sovereign Good!

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: SS. Philip & James, Apostles

According to the legend, St Philip preached in different parts of Asia and Southern Russia and was crucified in Hierapolis. St James, the author of the Epistle, was a relative (‘brother’) of Our Lord and Bishop of Jerusalem. He was thrown down from the Temple in 62 or 63. Their relics are kept in the Church of the Apostles (SS. Apostoli) in Rome. This feast has been celebrated for over a Millennium on May 1st, the anniversary of the Dedication of this church.

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Peter of Verona, Martyr

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Peter of Verona, Martyr

Morning Meditations for Low Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

The Son of God wished to present Himself under the form of a sweet little Child that thus He might the more readily and the more forcibly draw to Himself the love of men. Little children of themselves are loved at once. To see them and to love them is the same thing. Thus, then, would He be born Who willed to be loved and not feared.