Category: Advent 2017

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....

The much- longed-for virgin

You have heard that you are to conceive and bring forth a Son, and that it will not be through the power of man, but...