23 January: The Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Winter Constellation The Church (who was both born and, largely, came of age north of the Equator) is not insensitive to the darkness and...
Mother Mectilde and the Ave Maria
Our Lady of Victory Leading up to October 7, 1571, Pope St Pius V, as GK Chesterton was to put it, “cast his arms abroad...
The Most Holy Name of Mary
Victory in the Name of Mary In 1683 Pope Innocent XI extended the existing Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary to the universal...
The Vigil of the Nativity of Mary
A Collect for the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ANT. Crastina die in ascensu diluculi egredietur stella ex Jacob divini luminis...
Christ’s Manifestation in Mary
Stella Ista The fifth antiphon for the Epiphany is a sweet, yet somehow haunting, seventh mode melody. As it is sung again and again, at...