Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: February 3rd On the labourers in the vineyard
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: 29.i.23 Epiphany IV
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Candlemas
Today’s feast commemorates not only the obedience of the Blessed Virgin to the Mosaic Law in going to Jerusalem forty days after the birth of her Child and making the accustomed offerings, but also the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple, and the meeting of the Infant Jesus with the old man Simeon…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 31st On the judgements of God upon mortal sin
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
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 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 Monday ~ Alphonsus Liguori
Evening Meditations for the Septuagesima Monday after Epiphany ~ Alphonsus Liguori
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).
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 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!