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It’s a Feria, The Miraculous Medal, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: “The Particular Judgement”, today’s news from the Church: “Declaration against the New Mass: Fr. Calmel”, a preview of the Sermon: “The Last Things”, and today’s thought from the Archbishop.

Sources Used Today:

• “The Particular Judgement” – Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell: Meditations on the Four Last Things by St. Alphonsus de Liguori
  • https://www.amazon.com/Death-Judgment-Heaven-Hell-Meditations/dp/1530479126
  
  
• “Declaration against the New Mass: Fr. Calmel” (FSSPX.news)
  • https://sspx.org/en/news/declaration-against-new-mass-fr-calmel-4855
  
  

• Bux Refutes Cardinal Cupich on the Liturgy
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/fr-bux-refutes-cardinal-cupich-liturgy-55609
  
  

• “The Last Things” (SSPX Sermons)
  • SSPX YouTube: Sermons Playlist
  • Listen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast
  
  
• The Spiritual Life – Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

The Feast of the Miraculous Medal is one of the gentlest and most personal celebrations in the Church’s calendar, because it touches the place where devotion meets everyday life. Celebrated on November 27, it commemorates the day in 1830 when the Blessed Virgin appeared to a young Daughter of Charity, Saint Catherine Labouré, in the chapel of her community on the Rue du Bac in Paris. The world at that time was restless. France had weathered revolution after revolution, and the poor were suffering intensely. Into that anxious atmosphere, Our Lady came not with grand spectacle, but with the simplicity of a mother who sees her children’s need.

Catherine Labouré was a quiet and practical Daughter of Charity who longed for a glimpse of Our Lady. One night she was led to the chapel, where Mary appeared and spoke with her like a mother to a child, later showing her the now-famous image of the Virgin standing on a globe with rays of grace pouring from her hands.

Our Lady asked that this image be struck as a medal, promising abundant graces to all who wore it with trust. Catherine revealed the message only to her confessor, who brought it forward cautiously, and soon the first medals were minted. What followed astonished even the