Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Wednesday – Third Week After Easter
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Category: 30.iv.23 III Post Pascha
Morning Meditations for Wednesday – Third Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
My little children, says St. John, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth-(l John iii. 18). Some say they sincerely love their neighbours, but they will not submit to
inconvenience for the sake of any of them. To fulfil the precept of charity it is not enough to love our neighbour in words ; we must love him in deed and in truth.
Evening Meditations for Monday – Third Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
David placed all his hope of salvation in his future Redeemer, and said: Into thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit; Thou hast redeemed me, 0 Lord, the God of truth-(Ps. xxx. 6). But how much more ought we to place our confidence in Jesus Christ, now that He has come and has accomplished the work of Redemption! Hence each one of us should say, and repeat again and again with greater confidence: Into thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, 0 Lord, the God of truth.
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Monday – Third Week After Easter
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Spiritual Reading for Monday – Third Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Since Mary is our Mother, we may consider how great is the love she bears us. Love towards our children is a necessary impulse of nature; and St. Thomas says that this is the reason why the Divine law imposes on children the obligation of loving their parents, but gives no express command that parents should love their children; for nature itself has so strongly implanted it in all creatures that, as St. Ambrose remarks, “we know that a mother will expose herself to danger for her children,” and even the most savage beasts cannot do otherwise than love their young.
Morning Meditations for Monday – Third Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
St. Bernard says the tongue of a detractor is a three¬edged sword. It destroys the reputation of the neighbour; it wounds the souls of those who listen to the detraction; and it kills the soul or the detractor himself by depriving him of Divine grace. If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly -(Eccles. x. 11).
Spiritual Reading for Sunday III of Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Our Blessed Lady told St. Bridget that she was the Mother not only of the just and innocent, but also of sinners, provided they were willing to repent. Oh, how prompt does a sinner who is desirous of amendment and flies to her feet find this good Mother to embrace and help him, far more so than any earthly mother! St. Gregory VII wrote in this sense to princess Matilda, saying: “Resolve to sin no more and I promise that undoubtedly thou wilt find Mary more ready to love thee than any earthly mother.”
Morning Meditations for Sunday III of Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
There is nothing shorter than time, and yet nothing more valuable. There is nothing shorter, for the past is no more, the future is uncertain, the present only a moment. Jesus Christ said: A little time and now you shall not see me. We may say the same of our life which, according to St. James is a vapour which appeareth for a little while-(iv. 15).
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: Easter Friday
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Invention of the Holy Cross
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Invention of the Holy Cross