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
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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…
Spiritual Reading for the 14th Day of January ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
There are some who assert, and not without reason, that this Dolour was not only one of the greatest, but the greatest and most painful of all.
Morning Meditation for the 14th Day of January ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Our Lord, having given us the Blessed Virgin Mary as a model of perfection, it was necessary that she should be laden with sorrows, that in her we may admire heroic patience and endeavour to imitate it. The loss of her Son in the Temple was one of the greatest sorrows that Mary had to endure in her life. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water because the Comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me (Lament. i. 16).
Evening Meditations for January 13th ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Very short and painful were the slumbers of the Infant Jesus. A manger was His cradle, straw was His bed, and straw His pillow; so that the sleep of Jesus was often interrupted by the hardness of this rough and painful little bed, and by the severe cold of the cave. Notwithstanding this, overcome by nature, the sweet Babe from time to time slept amidst His sufferings.
Liturgical Year: January 13th – YouTube
Kevin Davis reads from Abbot Dom Gueranger’s classic, “The Liturgical Year” Liturgical Year: January 13th – YouTube
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…
Spiritual Reading for January 13th ~ St Alphonsus
Let us once more honour these dear Innocents, by culling their praises from the various Liturgies. We will begin with three Responsories from the Roman Breviary.
Morning Meditation for January 13th ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
All flesh is grass. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass is dried up. Behold, life ends, and the flower of all greatness and of all worldly goods falls off! The grass is withered and the flower is fallen!