Beloved of God and Men: The Feast of Blessed Columba Marmion
Blessed Columba Marmion is one of the secondary patrons of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle (Silverstream Priory). Although most of Ireland celebrated...
Blessed Columba Marmion on Humility and Confidence
A Secondary Patron of Our Monastery Along with St. Thérèse and several others Saints, Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923) is a secondary patron of our monastery...
Reprove, entreat, rebuke (II:5)
13 Jan. 14 May. 13 Sept. For the Abbot in his doctrine ought always to observe the bidding of the Apostle, wherein he says: “Reprove,...
All goodness and holiness (II:3)
11 Jan. 12 May. 11 Sept. Therefore, when anyone receiveth the name of Abbot, he ought to govern his disciples by a two-fold teaching: that...
Blessed Columba Marmion
A Great Irish Benedictine Today is the feast of a great Irish saint! Born and educated in Dublin, Joseph Marmion served as a curate in...
Of the Appointment of the Abbot (III)
22 Dec. Let him keep his own frailty ever before his eyes, and remember that the bruised reed must not be broken. And by this...
Patiently with a quiet conscience
1 Feb. 2 June. 2 Oct. The fourth degree of humility is, that if in this very obedience hard and contrary things, nay even injuries,...
Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation 13
Disclaimer: The series of letters entitled “Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation”, while based on the real questions of a number of men in various places...
Quia fecit nobíscum misericórdiam suam
Blessed be the Holy Trinity and undivided Unity: we will give glory to Him, because He has shown His mercy to us. (Introit, Trinity Sunday)...
Blessed Abbot Marmion
Blessed Columba Marmion presents the monastery as a place where the Kingdom of God has already come, a place wherein every weakness can encounter mercy,...
Blessed Columba Marmion: In Die Natalis
Several years ago, on a visit to the Irish College in Rome where the ever gracious Father Bernard Healy, then a student there, I was...
A Master of Prayer
Learning How to Pray from Blessed Marmion Blessed Abbot Marmion’s prayers are, at once, biblical, profoundly theological, deeply personal, and altogether shaped by the language...
Sicut filii carissimi in dilectione
Letter of Dom Columba Marmion, Abbot of Maredsous, to Father Louis Peeters, S.J., Provincial of the Belgian Province of the Company of Jesus I took...
A priest can do so much for God
Dom Columba Marmion was 31 years old and a monk of Maredsous for three years when, in November 1889, he wrote the following to a...
Nowhere else, as in the liturgy
Blessed Columba Marmion’s doctrine concerning the liturgy is luminous and serene. His repetition of the phrase, “nowhere, as in the liturgy” affirms the teaching of...
The liturgy: foremost and indispensable
Blaming the Jesuits Father Blake of Brighton, with his customary candour, writes in a recent post: I blame the Jesuits and the Spirit of the...
A Son of Ireland for the Whole Church
90th Anniversary Today is the 90th anniversary of the death of Blessed Columba Marmion, priest, abbot, and eminent Doctor of life in Christ. I am...
Praying One Abbot for the Healing of Another
Dom Pietro Vitorelli, Abbot of Monte Cassino Last June I learned of the serious illness of the young and gifted Abbot of Monte Cassino, 51...
Cardinal Mercier on Prayer
Désiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (1851-1926) was Archbishop of Malines, Belgium from 1906 until his death. Besides the heroic leadership he demonstrated during World War I, Cardinal...
Another Novena to Blessed Abbot Marmion
Today is the last day of our Novena to Blessed Columba Marmion. We offer thanks for his intercession and — we have decided to begin...