Meditations for Every Day in the Year

Name: Meditations for Every Day in the Year
Author: Bp. Richard Challoner

Bp. Richard Challoner

Considerations upon Christian Truths and Christian Duties, digested into Meditations for every day in the year (1753), by the vicar apostolic of the London District. Each day has three considerations and a resolution drawn from Scripture and the saints, running through the whole of Christian doctrine, the feasts and the Gospels of the year. The meditations for the movable season, from Ash-Wednesday to Corpus Christi, follow the Church's calendar and stand in their own groups, between those dated January to February and June to December.

Source: The full text of the daily meditations, from the 1874 reprint of Challoner's 1753 book (the 1753 first edition, at archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_considerations-upon-chri_challoner-richard_1753, was not used). The preface, the title pages, the contents and the running heads are dropped. The book gives the dated days (1 January to 19 February, and 14 June to 31 December) and, for the movable season between, one meditation for each day of Lent, Easter, the Ascension, Whitsuntide and the octave of Corpus Christi, with the fixed feasts of 24 February, 19 and 25 March, 23 April, 1 and 3 May. The 366th calendar day is not provided: the book has no 29 February. The OCR was repaired by matching words against the Internet Archive scans of an 1859 printing (Meditations1859) and of an 1800s printing (considerationsup00chaluoft); isolated OCR slips (about 1% of the words) remain. Challoner's own rubrics (for example the notes on Lent) are kept.