Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 16th On the charity of the Son of God for us in His mother’s womb

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Eusebius of Vercelli

Christians who breathed a sigh of relief when Constantine proclaimed Christianity the state religion, believing this would end the bloodshed and martyrdom. But it was all too short a time until they were facing persecution once more — from others who claimed to be Christian…

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 15th On the glory the Son of God gave His Father in His Mother’s womb

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 14th On the glory of God in the Incarnation of His Son

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day VII in the Octave of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Lesson from the book of Proverbs, describes to us allegorically the concept of Our Lady and thus ourselves, being in the mind of God from all eternity…

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 13th On the wonders of God in the incarnation of His Son…

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Lucy of Syracuse

Hagiography states that Saint Lucy was a Christian martyr during the Diocletian persecution. According to apocryphal texts, the beautiful Lucia was born to a prosperous family of nobility in Syracuse on the island of Sicily. In the days of early Christian persecution, legends say that Lucia carried food to Christians hiding in dark underground tunnels. To light the way she wore a wreath of candles on her head.

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 12th On the angelic salutation…

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day V in the Conception Octave

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Day V in the Conception Octave

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 11th On the purity of our actions…

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation