Category: Advent 2015

Let not your heart be disturbed

Let nothing frighten or grieve you, let not your heart be disturbed, do not fear any sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who am...

Loreto: A Place and a Grace

Pope Benedict XVI preached at Loreto on 4 October 2012. On this feast of the Holy House of the Incarnation, Pope Benedict’s words invite us...

Gaudens gaudebo in Domino

A Meditation on the Mass of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary [Originally posted in 2006] Look at this extraordinary medieval painting that...

Tota pulchra

The Radiant Brightness of the Immaculate Virgin Mary How right it is that in these « cold, and dark, and dreary » December days the sacred liturgy...

Pax vera descendit

This day is the true peace come down unto us from heaven. * This day throughout the whole world the skies drop down sweetness. V....