Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
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Spiritual Reading for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Spiritual Reading for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Morning Meditation for the Septuagesima Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Lord’s vines are our souls which He has given us to cultivate by good works that one day we may be admitted into eternal glory. Many live as if they were never to die, or as if they had not to give to God an account of their lives, as if there were no Heaven and no hell.
Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Sunday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
In your desolation, and when creatures are unable to comfort you, have recourse to your Creator and say to Him: “Lord, men have only words for me.” My friends are full of words! Verbosi amici mei! (Job xvi. 21). They cannot comfort me; neither do I desire to be comforted by them: Thou art all my hope, all my love. Do Thou help me.” Your God loves you more than you can love yourself, what, then, should you fear? O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt? (Matt. xiv. 31).
Spiritual Reading for the Septuagesima Sunday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Philip Neri used to say that “Heaven is not for sluggards,” and that he who does not seek the salvation of his soul above all things is a fool. If on this earth there were two classes of people, one mortal, and the other immortal, and if the former saw the latter entirely devoted to the acquisition of earthly goods, would they not exclaim: O fools that you are! You have it in your power to secure the immense and eternal goods of Paradise, and you lose your time in procuring the miserable goods of this earth, which shall end at death.
Morning Meditation for the Septuagesima Sunday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The Lord’s vines are our souls which He has given us to cultivate by good works that one day we may be admitted into eternal glory. Many live as if they were never to die, or as if they had not to give to God an account of their lives, as if there were no Heaven and no hell.
Evening Meditations for the Fourth Saturday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
It is of Faith that, immediately after death we shall be judged according to our works in this life. And it is also of Faith, that upon this Judgment will depend our eternal salvation or perdition. Imagine yourself in your agony, and having only a short time to live. Think that in a short time you would have to appear before Jesus Christ to give an account of your whole life. Alas! how alarming would the sight of your sins then be to you!
Spiritual Reading for the Fourth Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Although this great Saint did not actually die for the Faith at the hands of the executioner, yet he may be styled a Martyr, as he died of the maltreatment which he received defending God’s honour and the rights of the Church.
Morning Meditation for the Fourth Saturday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
There is no sinner, however abandoned by God, for whom Mary will not obtain grace and mercy if he only invokes her aid. As the magnet attracts iron so she draws to herself and to God the hardest hearts. Oh, if sinners had only recourse to Mary with a determination to amend their lives who should ever be lost!
Evening Meditations for the Fourth Friday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
The Incarnate Word, at the moment of His conception, saw before Him all the souls He was to redeem. Then thou also, my soul, wast presented with the guilt of all thy sins upon thee, and for thee did Jesus Christ accept all the pains that He suffered in life and death