Today’s Chapter: To Love God With All One’s Heart
Chapter 4: What are the Instruments of Good Works (vv. 1-21) 1. In the first place, to love the Lord God with all one’s heart,...
Today’s Chapter: Let No One Follow the Will of His Own Heart
Chapter 3: Of calling the Brethren to Council (cont’d.) Let all therefore, follow the Rule in all things as their guide, and let no man...
Today’s Chapter: Listening to the Holy Spirit
Chapter 3: Of calling the Brethren to Council As often as any important matters have to be transacted in the monastery, let the Abbot call...
Today’s Chapter: Entrusting Ourselves to Our Lady
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 33-40) Above all let him not, overlooking or under-valuing the salvation of the...
Today’s Chapter: ‘Meminere’ and ‘Multorum moribus servire’
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 30-32) The Abbot ought always to remember what he is, and what he...
Today’s Chapter: ‘Reprove, Entreat, Rebuke’
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 23-29) For the Abbot in his doctrine ought always to observe the bidding...
Today’s Chapter: The Universal Love of Our Heavenly Abbess
Chapter 2: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be (vv. 16-22) Let him [the Abbot] make no distinction of persons in the monastery....
Respice Stellam!
Look to the Star! Each year, on the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, we at the monastery return to the inexhaustible homily...
O Stella Jacob: The Little Epiphany of Mary’s Nativity
Today, with the antiphon O Stella Jacob, the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle draws to a close our cycle of Marian O Antiphons. We commented...
Fair as the Moon: Marian O Antiphon for 5 September
September 5, O Luna Tota Pulchra Once again, we sing after Vespers the Marian O Antiphons that are preparing us for the birth of Mary....
Marian O Antiphon for 4 September: O Lux Splendidissima
4 September, O Lux Splendidissima We continue at Vespers chanting the Marian O Antiphons that help us prepare for the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The...
Marian O Antiphon for 3 September: O Ignis Effulgens
September 3, O Ignis ANT. O Ignis effulgens et inextinguibilis! Ignis inflammans et illuminans! Ignis divinæ caritatis, qui in utero lates beatissimæ Annæ! Veni, appare...
Marian O Antiphon 2 September: O Maria, Mons Excelsus
On 2 September, we sing the Marian O Antiphon O Maria, Mons Excelsus. Listen to the recording below. ANT. O Maria, mons excelsus Domini, præparatus...
Marian O Antiphon for 1 September, O Radius: The Dawn of the Sun of Justice
We continue preparing for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady by singing the Marian O Antiphons at Vespers. Today we see sing O...
O Aurora: Happy New Year!
For the days leading up to the Nativity of Our Lady, the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle (Silverstream Priory) sings a special set...
The Games of Children (True Devotion and Merciful Love, Part 4)
An Objective Order For the month of August — the month of the Immaculate Heart — we’ve been examining Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort’s...
The Toy and the Slave (True Devotion and Merciful Love, Part 3)
True Devotion and the Offering to Merciful Love Have a Lot in Common We have been speaking in the last two posts here and here...
Saint John Eudes on the Glory of Union with the Cross
Heavenly Birthday of a Friend of Mother Mectilde Today is the dies natalis of Saint John Eudes, whom we’ve written about before here and here,...
“Think of Me and I will Think of You” (True Devotion and Merciful Love, Part 2)
Our Lady of Knock Today Ireland celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Knock. Mary appeared next to an altar on which was the Lamb...
‘The Best Part’: Homily for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optimam partem elegit sibi Maria, quae non auferetur ab ea in aeternum. ‘Mary has chosen for herself the best part, which shall not be taken...