Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 2nd On beginning a new life with a New Year
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 26.xii.21 Christmas Octave
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Octave Day of St Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr of the Church
Saint Stephen died, beholding his Lord standing at the right hand of God. He imitated Him in death; crying out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” He concluded on his knees, “Lord, do not impute to them this sin!” And then he fell asleep, the narrative says…
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ; the Octave Day of Christmas
Circumcision was a sacrament of the Old Law, and the first legal observance required of the descendants of Abraham by Almighty God. It was a sacrament of initiation in the service of God, and a promise, an engagement, to believe and act as He had revealed and directed…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 31st
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Sylvester, Pope
Saint Sylvester was born in Rome. When he reached the age to dispose of his fortune, he took pleasure in giving hospitality to Christians passing through the city. He would take them with him, wash their feet, serve them at table, and in sum give them in the name of Christ, all the care that the most sincere charity inspired…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 30th On the conclusion of the year
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day VI in the Octave of Christmas
During the Octaves of the Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost, the Church is so absorbed in the respective mysteries that she puts off everything that could share her attention; whereas during this Octave of Christmas, there is only one day which does not celebrate the memory of some glorious Saint, and our Infant Jesus is surrounded by a choir of heroes who loved and served him…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 29th On St Thomas of Canterbury
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Thomas of Canterbury
When Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury died, the king insisted on the consecration of Saint Thomas in his stead. Saint Thomas at first declined, warning the king that from that hour their friendship would be threatened by his own obligations to uphold the rights of the Church against infringement by the sovereign, whose tendencies were not different from those of his predecessors. In the end he was obliged by obedience to yield…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 28th On the Holy Innocents
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation