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Spiritual Reading for Thursday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The doctrine that all prayers and works performed in a state of sin are sins was condemned as heretical by the sacred Council of Trent. St. Bernard says that although prayer in the mouth of a sinner is devoid of beauty, as it is unaccompanied by charity, nevertheless it is useful and obtains grace to abandon sin…
Morning Meditations for Thursday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Some one will, perhaps, say: “I am young. Later on I will give myself to God.” “How can you promise yourself another day,” says St. Augustine, “when you know not whether you shall live another hour?” “If,” says St. Teresa, “you are not prepared to die today, tremble lest you die an unhappy death.”
Evening Meditations for Wednesday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
No one teaches us so well the real characteristics and practice of Charity as the great preacher of Charity, St. Paul. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians he says, in the first place, that without Charity man is nothing, and that nothing profits him: It I should have all faith, so that I could move mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: SS. Philip & James, Apostles
According to the legend, St Philip preached in different parts of Asia and Southern Russia and was crucified in Hierapolis. St James, the author of the Epistle, was a relative (‘brother’) of Our Lord and Bishop of Jerusalem. He was thrown down from the Temple in 62 or 63. Their relics are kept in the Church of the Apostles (SS. Apostoli) in Rome. This feast has been celebrated for over a Millennium on May 1st, the anniversary of the Dedication of this church.
Spiritual Reading for Wednesday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The doctrine that all prayers and works performed in a state of sin are sins was condemned as heretical by the sacred Council of Trent. St. Bernard says that although prayer in the mouth of a sinner is devoid of beauty, as it is unaccompanied by charity, nevertheless it is useful and obtains grace to abandon sin…
Morning Meditations for Wednesday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Some one will, perhaps, say: “I am young. Later on I will give myself to God.” “How can you promise yourself another day,” says St. Augustine, “when you know not whether you shall live another hour?” “If,” says St. Teresa, “you are not prepared to die today, tremble lest you die an unhappy death.”
Evening Meditations for Tuesday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
No one teaches us so well the real characteristics and practice of Charity as the great preacher of Charity, St. Paul. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians he says, in the first place, that without Charity man is nothing, and that nothing profits him: It I should have all faith, so that I could move mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Octave Day of St George the Great Martyr
Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St Peter of Verona, Martyr
Spiritual Reading for Tuesday – Fourth Week After Easter ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
The doctrine that all prayers and works performed in a state of sin are sins was condemned as heretical by the sacred Council of Trent. St. Bernard says that although prayer in the mouth of a sinner is devoid of beauty, as it is unaccompanied by charity, nevertheless it is useful and obtains grace to abandon sin…