Devotionals
The Meaning of the Circumcision – Christmas Meditation Day 10 (Jan 3)
Christmas Meditations by Fr. Clarke SJ (circa 1885) – The meaning of the Circumcision of Jesus. Today’s mediation helps to explain why Our Lord underwent a rite that was supposed to be a remedy for original sin, when Our Lord had none!
Mary at the Circumcision – Christmas Meditation Day 9 (Jan 2)
Besides Simeon’s prophecy, Mary’s first encounter with the suffering Her Divine Son would undergo happened just 8 days after His birth.
The Circumcision – Christmas Meditation Day 8 (Jan 1)
The Circumcision 1. On the first day of the year we commemorate the first shedding of the Precious Blood for us. Christmas week, as it draws to a close, introduces us to the new-born King in the weakness of the nature that He shared with sinful man. We now learn that He came, not to…
The Shepherds’ Visit & How to begin Heaven on Earth – Christmas Meditation Day 7 (Dec 31)
Why were the shepherds the first to adore Our Lord? What can we learn from them? The last of the Great Truths series today also completes with how to start Heaven here and now.
The Angels’ Song & The Memories of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 6 (Dec 30)
This Christmas Meditation recounts the song of the angels, and it notes that they did not wish peach on all men, but only some! (yikes!) It also has a tender meditation on memories in Heaven. Short and guaranteed to move your heart!
The Little Maid & The Companions of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 5 (Dec 29)
Today’s Christmas meditation places you with the handmaiden to the Queen of Heaven. The Great Truths series continues and gives consideration to the society we’ll have in Heaven!
The Foster-father & The Music of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 4 (Dec 28)
Make your nativity scene work for your eternal life! A Christmastide meditation on Saint Joseph and another of the Great Truths. Short but powerful!
The Holy Mother & The Employments of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 3 (Dec 27)
A short meditation to help relish the great gift of Jesus’s incarnation and His Holy Mother – how we will be in Heaven!
The New-born Child & The Essential Happiness of Heaven – Christmas Meditation Day 2 (Dec 26)
The New-born Child In the cradle before us lies the new-born Infant wrapped in swaddling-clothes and laid in the manger. Let us contemplate Him for a few moments and see what lessons He teaches us. 1. He teaches us the unspeakable force of divine charity. How was it possible for the Eternal Word, the co-equal…
Christmas Meditation (Dec 25) The Nativity & Heaven
Increase your haul this Christmas with extra spiritual gifts! Christmas meditations by the late Fr. Clarke SJ run daily through the entire Christmas season.
The first few days include bonus meditations from “The Great Truths”, a series that ran though advent and include the entire background of salvation history and how you fit into it, including God’s great love for you and His desire to redeem you and be with you forever!
