Super Missus Est
Homily on the Gospel Missus est Ember Wednesday of Advent 17 December 2025 Note: This is the traditional homily that is delivered each year to...
The Cross at the Threshold of the Year
The cross has become something more than a historical memory; it does convey, almost as by a mathematical diagram, the truth about the real point...
On the Season of Pre-Advent
The Resumed Sundays after Epiphany One of the peculiarities of the Traditional Liturgical Calendar is its inclusion of the ‘resumed’ Sundays after Epiphany. In years...
I Will Betake Myself to Thy House
The Holy House of Loreto Falling between the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe, is the feast of The Holy House...
The First Sunday of Advent
Ad Te Levavi In this illuminated miniature Saint Bernard is intoning the Introit of the First Sunday of Advent, Ad te levavi animam meam. He...
Gaudete in Domino semper!
The image of Saint John’s vision in the Apocalypse (1360-1390) is by Jacobello Alberegno. I chose it because the Eternal Father is vested in a...
He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness
Fourth Sunday of Advent A Priest Under Scrutiny Saint Paul presents himself in today’s Epistle as any priest would — or should — he is...
Blessed Ildefonso Schuster
We often read from Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster’s magnificent work, The Sacramentary. Here is an excerpt from his presentation of the Advent Ember Days. Prayer...
18 December, O ADONAI
Moses Before the Burning Bush This is the central panel of a triptych painted by Nicolas Froment in 1476. It depicts Moses awestruck before the...
The unsearchable mysteries of God
At Matins this morning: The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. At that time: God sent the angel Gabriel to a city of...
17 December, O SAPIENTIA
The Saints John How delightful to see in this painting both little Johns, the Baptist and the Theologian, together with the Incarnate Word, Holy Wisdom....
The Fellowship of the Angels
Yesterday at Matins: II NOCTURN From a Sermon by St Aelred, Abbot Let us take a look at ourselves and our city. Our way of...
John: Elias in Spirit
Yesterday at Matins: III NOCTURN The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to John This was the testimony which John bore, when the Jews sent...
Let us attack the Lord on the way
This morning at Matins: From a Sermon by St Maximus of Turin, Bishop If women who have the care of a home will on certain...
Act of Reparation in Advent
Laudetur sacrosanctum et augustissimum Sacramentum in aeternum. My God and my Saviour, Jesus, true God and true Man, worthy Victim of the Most High, Living...
S. Ioannis Didaci Cuahtlatoatzin
Yes, that would be the much loved Saint Juan Diego of Guadalupe as he is designated in the new Solesmes Antiphonale Monasticum for December 9th....
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...
Gaudens gaudebo in Domino
A Meditation on the Mass of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Look at this extraordinary medieval painting that shows the Tree of...
Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive
Saturday at Matins: From the Commentary on the Prophet Isaias by St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor Some of those who have translated the...
Blessed are the pure in heart
Friday at Matins: From a Sermon by St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”. Let us...