Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: January 6th On the Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner
Category: Devotional
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
This feast was celebrated in the East as early as the third century and it spread to the West towards the end of the fourth century. The word “Epiphany” means “manifestation.” As at Christmas it is the mystery of a God Who makes Himself visible, but it is no longer only to the Jews that He shows Himself: “It is to the Gentiles on this day that God reveals His Son” (Collect)…
Spiritual Reading for January 6th ~ Dom Prosper Gueranger
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 6th ~ 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!
Evening Meditations for January 5th ~ 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.
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
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…
Morning Meditation for January 5th ~ 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!
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…
Spiritual Reading for January 4th ~ Dom Prosper Gueranger
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.