SAINT ALPHONSUS DI LIGOURI,  founder of the Redemptorists.  He had much contact with contemplative nuns, and knew the Poor Clares of Nocera Inferiore, Italy, as he had preached a series of spiritual conferences in 1749.
It was  after he resigned his bishopric that St. Alphonsus saw the nuns more often.  His Redemptorist convent in Nocera was near the monastery of Poor Clares.  One wonders how often he came to preach or to give spiritual guidance.  His The True Spouse of Jesus Christ contains in written form the reflections of a lifetime:
  “In order to hear Mass with devotion, it is necessary to know that the sacrifice of the altar is the same as that which was offered on Calvary, with this difference, that on Calvary the blood of Jesus Christ was really shed, but on the altar, it is merely shed in a mystical manner.”               Page 702
SAINT ALPHONSUS DI LIGOURI,  founder of the Redemptorists.  He had much contact with contemplative nuns, and knew the Poor Clares of Nocera Inferiore, Italy, as he had preached a series of spiritual conferences in 1749.
It was  after he resigned his bishopric that St. Alphonsus saw the nuns more often.  His Redemptorist convent in Nocera was near the monastery of Poor Clares.  One wonders how often he came to preach or to give spiritual guidance.  His The True Spouse of Jesus Christ contains in written form the reflections of a lifetime:
  “In order to hear Mass with devotion, it is necessary to know that the sacrifice of the altar is the same as that which was offered on Calvary, with this difference, that on Calvary the blood of Jesus Christ was really shed, but on the altar, it is merely shed in a mystical manner.”               Page 702