Daily Devotional: Jan 3 – Feria / First Friday
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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Today is Friday, January 3, 2025, A Feria, and First Friday, 4th class, with the color of white. Today: The meditation: “Prayer for Daily Neglects,” a preview of this week’s episode of The Catholic Mass #19: The Mysterious Nature of the Eucharist today’s news from the Church: “North Korea: Christians Are Public Enemy Number One,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- “North Korea: Christians Are Public Enemy Number One” (FSSPX.news)
- “All Saints' Day: A Battlecry Against Mediocrity” (SSPX Sermons)
- “The Catholic Mass #19 The Mysterious Nature of the Eucharist " (SSPX Podcast)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional. |
| 0:09.1 | Today's Friday, January the 3rd, 2025, a fairia and first Friday, fourth class, with the color of white. |
| 0:15.5 | Today's meditation, the prayer for daily neglects, a preview of this week's episode of the Catholic Mass, episode 19, |
| 0:21.5 | today's news from the Church about North Korea, and today's thought from the Archbishop. |
| 0:27.2 | But first, the collect of today's Mass. |
| 0:30.5 | O God, who didst constitute thine only begotten Son, the Savior of mankind, and didst bid him to be called |
| 0:36.7 | Jesus, mercifully grant that we who |
| 0:39.0 | venerate His Holy Name on Earth may fully enjoy also the vision of Him in heaven. |
| 0:45.8 | As well as a First Friday in Afaria, it's also traditionally the Feast of St. Macarius the Great. |
| 0:51.5 | And so let's look at his extraordinary life, a man who left everything behind |
| 0:55.5 | to live a life of radical humility and faith. As a young man in the fourth century in Alexandria, |
| 1:01.4 | Macarius had a fruit stall. Nothing extraordinary there. But when he heard about the legendary |
| 1:07.5 | St. Anthony, he knew he had a higher calling. He left it all to follow him into |
| 1:12.5 | the desert. This is St. Anthony, the hermit, by the way, not St. Anthony of Padua. And soon, St. Anthony |
| 1:18.5 | recognized Macarius as someone special, naming him as his spiritual heir. Macarius didn't just |
| 1:25.2 | live a life of quiet prayer. He waged war against himself. One day, |
| 1:30.3 | someone saw him struggling under the weight of a basket of sand in the heat and said, |
| 1:34.3 | What are you doing? And he replied, I'm tormenting my tormentor. That was Macarius' way. When |
| 1:42.1 | sloth or desires crept in, he'd counter them with acts of extreme discipline. |
| 1:47.4 | And one time, after being stung by a gnat, he felt guilty for killing it. |
| 1:52.3 | So, he stripped down, stood in a marsh until he was so bitten and swollen by so many gnats |
| 1:58.6 | that he was unrecognizable. |
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