Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Sunday, December 22 : Eusebius of Caesarea
“A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!” (Isa 40:3) This word shows clearly that the events prophesied will not be accomplished in Jerusalem, but in the desert. The glory of the Lord will be revealed in the desert; and […]
Sunday, December 22 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 3,1-6.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina : Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made […]
Saturday, December 21 : Saint Anthony of Padua
Thomas said to the Twelve: “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe!” (Jn 20:25). The name ‘Thomas’ means ‘abyss’, for by his doubt he gained an even deeper understanding and became firmer in […]
Saturday, December 21 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 20,24-29.
At that time: Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the […]
Friday, December 20 : Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
In her life Mary was very hidden. This is why she is called “Alma Mater” by the Holy Spirit and the Church: she is a Mother, hidden and secret. Her humility was so profound that she had no other more powerful and continual characteristic while on earth than that of hiding herself from herself and […]
Friday, December 20 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,39-47.
And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the […]
Thursday, December 19 : Blessed Guerric of Igny
Brethren, before anything else we ought to reflect on the grace of solitude, the blessedness of the desert, which from the beginning of this time of salvation, has deserved to be consecrated to the peacefulness of the saints. Indeed, the desert was made holy for us by the voice of John, he who cried out […]
Thursday, December 19 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 1,19-28.
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou? And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the Christ. And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art […]
Wednesday, December 18 : Saint Amadeus of Lausanne
The Word came from himself and came down beneath himself and dwelt among us (cf. Jn 1:14), when he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant (Phil 2:7). That emptying was a descent. Yet he descended in such a way that he did not lose himself. He was made flesh in such a way […]
Wednesday, December 18 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,26-38.
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord […]
Tuesday, December 17 : Book of hours of Sinai
You, the voice of the Word, welcome now our voices, oh Baptist, and deliver your people from passions, dangers, unending afflictions and eternal punishment. You always point the way, to the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world: beg Him to erase my serious sins, my many failures, and make me […]
