The Hymn at Matins: Singing in the Night
Stretching Godward My own experience is that the Invitatory, with the repetition of its pressing call to adoration, establishes the soul in the realm of...
Am I not here who am your Mother?
At Clear Creek Brother Juan Diego and I have been at Clear Creek Monastery for the past few days. I have been preaching a retreat...
Letter to a Soon-to-be Novice
Second Sunday of Advent My dear son, Listening to the Liturgy You have often heard me say that the sacred liturgy is, first of all,...
The Consolations of His Coming
December 24 Collect at the Hours and at the Mass in the Morning Come quickly, we beseech You, Lord Jesus, and do not delay, so...
Secundum Verbum Tuum
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven...