Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 16th On the necessity of consideration
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Marcellus I, Martyr
Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus; Commemoration of the Second Sunday Post Epiphany: Missa “In nomine Jesu”
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 15th On Our Lord’s changing water into wine at the marriage-feast of Cana St John ii
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Paul of Thebes
Today is the feast of Saint Paul the Hermit, father of hermits, who had St. Jerome for his historian. Having become an orphan at the age of fifteen, he gave up his possessions and retired into a desert where a flourishing palm-tree, a symbol of is virtues (Introit) provided him with food and clothing…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 14th On the Sacred Name of Jesus: the first Sunday after the Epiphany Octave
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Hilary of Poitiers
After having persecuted the Church during the first centuries, the Christian, but at the same time heretical emperors, continued their attacks by supporting Arianism which denied the divinity of Christ. In the season after Epiphany, when Jesus affirms His divinity by His teaching and miracles, the first saint whom the Church presents to us is one of the more intrepid defenders of this fundamental dogma of Christianity. St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 13th On Our Saviour’s being baptised by St John the Baptist
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Octave Day of the Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The thoughts of the Church, today, are fixed on the Baptism of our Lord in the Jordan, which is the second of the three Mysteries of the Epiphany. The Emmanuel manifested Himself to the Magi, after having shown Himself to the Shepherds; but this manifestation was made within the narrow space of a stable at Bethlehem, and the world knew nothing of it. In the Mystery of the Jordan, Christ manifested himself with greater publicity…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 12th On the lessons Our Lord Jesus gives us in His private life
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day VII The Epiphany Octave
The Magi were not satisfied with paying their adorations to the great King, whom Mary presented to them. After the example of the Queen of Saba, who paid her homage to the Prince of Peace, in the person of King Solomon, these three Eastern Kings opened their treasures, and presented their offerings to Jesus. Our Emmanuel graciously accepted these mystic gifts, and suffered them not to leave him until he had loaded them with gifts infinitely more precious than those he had vouchsafed to receive…