Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Holy Innocents
These innocent victims were the flowers and first-fruits of the Savior’s legions of martyrs; they triumphed over the world without having ever known it or experienced its dangers…
Category: 26.xii.21 Christmas Octave
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 27th On St John the Apostle & Evangelist
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John, Apostle & Evangelist
Saint John, brother of Saint James the Greater, the Apostle of Spain, is the beloved disciple. He was privileged, with his brother and Saint Peter, to behold Our Lord raise up a dead child to life, then saw Him transfigured on the mountaintop; he alone reposed his head on His breast at the Last Supper…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 26th On St Stephen
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
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: Sunday 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…