Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'

27 March 2022

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


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.

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