See the following legally free ebooks & online audio:

  • Considerations upon Christian Truths and Christian Duties, Digested into Meditations for Every Day in the Year, by the Ven. and Rt. Rev. Dr. [Richard] Challoner, Bishop of Debra (Philadelphia: Eugene Cummiskey, 1874). Both volumes combined into a single file may be read online, and is available in pdf, epub, mobi and other formats, at Internet Archive.
  • The audio of the meditations are available in a series of videos listed in the Daily Challoner playlist on the Youtube channel Old Roman TV. [As of 30 December 2021, daily meditations ranging from 02 September (“On Poverty of Spirit”) to 29 December have been made available. Note that the Daily Challoner playlist does not order the videos uniformly by date.]
    • [Caution: While the Youtube channel providing the Daily Challoner contains some valuable materials, it appears to be administered by persons whose view of the Second Vatican Council requires correction with the hermeneutic of continuity and reform. Therefore please approach the materials thereon with prayerful caution.]

See also these other meditations arranged for the secular calendar year (January-December):

  • Considerations upon Christian Truths and Christian Duties, Digested into Meditations for Every Day in the Year, by the Right Rev. Dr. Richard Challoner, Bishop of Debra, abridged by the Rev. John Bell (Louisville: B. J. Webb & Brother, 1800). May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive.
  • The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year, 2nd edition, by Father Paolo Segneri (New York: Benziger Bros, 1892).
  • Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year, 21st edition, edited by Henry Sebastian Bowden of the Oratory (London, Burns & Oates; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers). In 2 Volumes. Both volumes are available at HathiTrust Digital Library. Volume II (July-December) of the 2nd edition (London, Burns and Oates, 1877) may be read online, and is available in pdf, epub, mobi and other formats, at Internet Archive.
  • New Practical Meditations for Every Day in the Year, on the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ; Chiefly Intended for the Use of Religious Communities, by the Rev. Father Bruno Vercruysse, S.J. (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1875). With approbation of bishops and religious superiors. Available at the HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive: Volume 1, January to June; and Volume 2, July to December. [N.B., Although the text states that it is chiefly intended for religious communities, we submit that it would be a helpful spiritual aid for Christians and people of good will in all states of life.]
  • Pictorial Lives of the Saints, with Reflections for Every Day of the Year, compiled from “Butler’s Lives” and Other Approved Sources; to which are Added Lives of the American Saints Recently Placed on the Calendar for the United States by Special Petition of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, and also the Lives of the New Saints Canonized in 1881 by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, edited by John Gilmary Shea (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1889). With Imprimatur and with the Approbation of Pope Leo XIII and other bishops. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive; and also available at HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • A Thought from Saint Ignatius for Each Day of the Year, translated from the French by Miss Margaret A. Colton (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1887). Available in pdf format on this page of Saints’ Books.

See also these meditations arranged according to the liturgical calendar (from Advent to the season after Pentecost):

  • Meditations for Every Day in the Year; Collected from Different Spiritual Writers, and Suited for the Practice Called “Quarter of an Hour’s Solitude”, edited by Rev. Roger Baxter, S.J., revised by Rev. P. Neale, S.J. (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1884). With ecclesiastical approbations. Available in various formats (mobi/kindle, pdf, epub, etc.) at Internet Archive and Open Library. A different imprint is also available at Internet Archive.
    • An earlier edition with older orthography, Meditations for Every Day in the Year; Collected from Different Spiritual Writers, first written in Latin by N.B., translated into English by E.M., in the year 1669, and now revised by Rev. R. Baxter (Georgetown, D.C.: Joseph Milligan, 1823), is available at Internet Archive and at HathiTrust Digital Library.

On the Feast of Saint Zotikos and Saint Sylvester in the one true and Catholic Church, and New Year’s Eve 2021-2022 in the Gregorian calendar. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.