Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 30th On the conclusion of the year
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day VI 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…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 29th On St Thomas of Canterbury
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Thomas of Canterbury
When Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury died, the king insisted on the consecration of Saint Thomas in his stead. Saint Thomas at first declined, warning the king that from that hour their friendship would be threatened by his own obligations to uphold the rights of the Church against infringement by the sovereign, whose tendencies were not different from those of his predecessors. In the end he was obliged by obedience to yield…
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 28th On the Holy Innocents
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
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…
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…
Lumen Gentium: The Christmas Octave – YouTube
✠Jerome of Selsey explores and explains the theology, themes and traditions of the Traditional Roman Rite liturgies of the Christmas
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 26th On St Stephen
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation