Bishop Challoner's 'Meditations'

Beginning today, I will be sharing Bishop Richard Challoner's Meditations for Every Day in the Year. The Good Bishop (29 September 1691 – 12 January 1781) was Vicar Apostolic of the London District when it was still technically illegal to be a Catholic Priest in the UK.

He is best remembered, of course, for his revision of the Douai-Rheims Bible, but he was also a prolific writer. Besides his Meditations, he also wrote

• Think Well On't, or, Reflections on the great truths of the Christian Religion : for every day in the month : and The thirty days' prayer (1841)
• Grounds of Catholic Doctrine (1732);
• Unerring Authority of the Catholic Church (1732); 
• Short History of the Protestant Religion (1733);
• A Roman Catholick's Reasons why He cannot Conform (1734); 
• The Touchstone of the New Religion (1734);
• The Young Gentleman Instructed in the Grounds of the Christian Religion (1735);
• A Specimen of the Spirit of the Dissenting Teachers (1736); 
• The Catholic Christian Instructed (1737);
• The Ground of the Old Religion (1742);
• A Letter to a Friend concerning the Infallibility of the Church (1743);
• A Papist Misrepresented and Represented, abridged from Gother; Remarks on Two Letters against Popery (1751);
• Instructions for the Jubilee (1751);
• The Wonders of God in the Wilderness: Lives of the Fathers of the Desert (1755);
• The Life of St Teresa, abridged from Woodhead (1757);
• Manual of Prayers (1758);
• A Caveat against the Methodists (1760);
• The City of God of the New Testament (1760);
• The Morality of the Bible (1762);
• Devotion of Catholics to the Blessed Virgin (1764), included in A Caveat against the Methodists;
• Rules of Life for a Christian (1766),
• The Lord's prayer and the Angelic salutation (n.d.)

Bye the bye, many of these books have much longer actual titles than I've cited. For example, The Catholic Christian Instructed bears the full title of The Catholic Christian Instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifice, Ceremonies, and Observances of the Church by Way of Question and Answer.