Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 5th On the lives we are to read by the Christian’s rule
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Octave Day of St Thomas of Canterbury
Saint Thomas a Becket, son of an English nobleman, Gilbert Becket, was born on the day consecrated to the memory of Saint Thomas the Apostle, December 21, 1117, in Southwark, England. The martyred Archbishop was canonized by Pope Alexander III on Ash Wednesday, 1173, not yet three years after his death on December 29, 1170, to the edification of the entire Church…
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Octave Day of the Holy Innocents
When Herod realized that the Wise Men would not return, he was furious, and in his rage ordered that every male child in Bethlehem and its vicinity, of the age of two years or less, be slain. These innocent victims were the flowers and first-fruits of the Saviour’s legions of martyrs; they triumphed over the world without having ever known it or experienced its dangers…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 3rd On the rule of new life
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
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
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…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 1st On New Year’s Day
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
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…