Daily Devotional: Jan 8 – Feria
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today is Wednesday, January 8, 2025, A feria, 4th class, with the color of white, and the Mass of Epiphany. In this episode: The meditation: “Advancing in Wisdom,” a preview of the Sermon: “Becoming Jesus Christ,” today’s news from the Church: “One Year Later: The Fiducia Supplicans “Flop”,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- A Child in Winter, Caryll Houselander
- “One Year Later: The Fiducia Supplicans “Flop” (FSSPX.news)
- “Becoming Jesus Christ” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional. |
| 0:08.8 | Today's Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, a fairia, fourth class with the color of white and the |
| 0:14.1 | massive epiphany. In this episode, the meditation advancing in wisdom, a preview of the sermon |
| 0:19.6 | becoming Jesus Christ, today's news from the church |
| 0:22.3 | about fiducius suplicans, and today's thought from the archbishop. But first the collect of |
| 0:28.6 | today's Mass. Oh God, who on this day didst thine only begotten son to the Gentiles by the |
| 0:35.0 | guidance of a star, graciously grant that we who know thee now by |
| 0:38.8 | faith may be led even to contemplate the beauty of thy majesty. |
| 0:43.3 | Today is a pharia, but let's look at a saint who has been historically venerated during this day, |
| 0:48.4 | St. Claudius Apollinaris, a bishop from the city of Heropolis in Phrygia during the second |
| 0:53.3 | century. Although |
| 0:54.5 | much of his life remains shrouded in mystery, his name has been celebrated for centuries |
| 0:58.9 | as a defender of the faith. Historians like Eusebius, St. Jerome, and Theodorette spoke highly |
| 1:04.3 | of him, although sadly his writings have been lost to time. What made St. Apollinar's truly shine |
| 1:10.5 | was his fearless stand against heresies. |
| 1:13.4 | And no, it's not the Aryan heresy today. He was a brilliant thinker, tracing the roots of |
| 1:18.3 | false doctrines back to the philosophical errors of the time. But it was his eloquent and courageous |
| 1:23.9 | apology, or apologia, a defense of Christianity addressed to the emperor of the time, |
| 1:29.4 | Emperor Marcus Aurelius that secured his legacy. You see, around the year 175, Marcus Aurelius had |
| 1:35.6 | experienced an extraordinary military victory over the Qadi, or the Qadi, reportedly achieved |
| 1:41.3 | through the prayers of his Christian soldiers. St. Apollinaris seized this moment, reminding the emperor of the divine assistance he had received |
| 1:49.4 | and pleading for justice for Christians who faced persecutions. |
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