Spiritual Reading for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Spiritual Reading for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
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Morning Meditation for 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 Septuagesima Sunday ~ 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).
Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Monday ~ Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
Spiritual Reading for Septuagesima Sunday ~ 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 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 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.
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.