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Morning Meditation for Christmas Day ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Arise, all ye nobles and peasants! Mary invites all — rich and poor, just and sinners, to enter the Cave of Bethlehem to adore, and to kiss the feet of her new-born Son. Come then, all ye devout souls — come in and see the Creator of Heaven and earth on a little hay under the form of a little Infant; the power of God, as it were, annihilated, and the wisdom of God become mad, through excess of love! I come, then, dear Jesus, to kiss Thy feet and offer Thee my heart.

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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: First Mass of the Nativity of Our Lord

First Mass of the Nativity of Our Lord

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Spiritual Steps – Christmas Eve – YouTube

Lisa continues her reading from Spiritual Steps to Christmas by the Very Reverend Msgr. Aloysius Coogan. Spiritual Steps – Christmas

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Evening Meditations for Christmas Eve ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

God had decreed that His Son should be born, not in the house of Joseph, but in a cave and stable for animals, in the poorest and most painful way that a child can be born; and therefore He so disposed events that Caesar should publish an Edict that every one should go and enrol himself in the city whence he drew his origin.

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Liturgical Year – Christmas Eve – YouTube

Father Timothy Geckle continues his readings from the Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Gueranger, O.S.B.Show less Liturgical Year – Christmas

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: December 24th On the birth of Christ

Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: November 25th on the parable of the Talents, Matt xxv

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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord

Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord

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Liturgical Year – Christmas Eve – YouTube

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Spiritual Reading for Christmas Eve ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

St. Thomas of Villanova gives us excellent encouragement, saying: “What art thou afraid of, O sinner? … How shall He reject thee if thou desirest to retain Him Who came down from Heaven to seek thee?” Let not the sinner, then, be afraid, provided he will be no more a sinner, but will love Jesus Christ; let him not be dismayed, but have full trust; if he abhor and hate sin, and seek God, let him not be sad, but full of joy: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord (Ps. civ. 3).

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Morning Meditation for Christmas Eve ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Before the coming of the Messias, who loved God upon the earth? He was known, indeed, in one corner of the world; that is, in Judea; and even there how very few loved Him when He came! Even today few there are who think of preparing their hearts for Jesus to be born in them! What sayest thou? Dost thou wish to be ranked amongst the ungrateful ones?