Jubilee of Lourdes
December 8, 2007 marks the opening of the Jubilee Year of Lourdes: 150 years after the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception,...
Spes Nostra, Salve!
The Holy Father’s Encyclical Spe Salvi ends in a splendid prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Spes Nostra, Our Hope. One of the high points...
All Saints Day Homily
I took this photo of the sacred relics of the saints exposed in the monastery chapel after Second Vespers of All Saints. At Holy Mass...
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca
12 September Feast of the Holy Name of Mary Think of Mary, call upon Mary. Collect Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that to all...
The Earlier Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
For some years now, especially around the Marian feasts of September 8th, September 12th, November 21st, and December 8th, I have prayed my rosary while...
God Shows Us His Face and Opens to Us His Heart
Rather than preach my own homily this morning, I read the homily given by the Holy Father today at Mariazell. When the Successor of Saint...
Gratia agentes Deo Patri
Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week of the Year I Colossians 1:9-14 Psalm 97:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6 (R. 2a) Luke 5:1-11 Toward Mariazell On this eve of...
What God Expects of You in Christ Jesus
At the Monastery of the Glorious Cross, O.S.B., September 4, 5, and 6 will be marked by a triduum of Votive Masses in honour of...
The Wisest Investment of All
The Holy Father is on pilgrimage today to Loreto. My heart is on pilgrimage with him. Twenty-First Saturday of the Year I Matthew 25:14-30 The...
The Things That Are Above
A Commentary on the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary There is no better way to enter into the mystery of any...
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Luke 1:39-56 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Psalm 44:10-12.16 Apocalypse 11:19; 12:1-6.10 The Pascha of Summer Today’s festival, the Pascha of summer, signals the beginning of the...
The Madonna of the Precious Blood
It was fitting on this last Saturday of July to remember the Madonna of the Most Precious Blood. The First Lesson at Mass (Exodus 24:3-8)...
I Consider Myself Yours, O Mother of Perpetual Help
I was happy to discover that today’s “Moment with Mary” was a text of Blessed Charles of Jesus on Our Mother of Perpetual Help. (If...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Eight
Your servant, Saint Simon of the Tree Stock, was shown to be another Melodist in praising you and invoking your motherly Protection as the Sovereign...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Seven
Your Son immediately felt His Healing Power go out of him and asked who it was that touched him, even though there were many crowds...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Six
It is not against human enemies that we struggle, but against sovereignties and powers who originate the darkness in this world, the spiritual army of...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Five
O Most Holy Mother of Carmel, having learned the truth in the Lord Jesus, the Apostle to the Gentiles calls us to give up all...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Four
We join with the Prophet Ezekiel in pondering the rich treasury of Grace that your most holy Mantle of Carmel sends down on us who...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Three
A chariot of fire appeared taking the Prophet Elias to heaven in a whirlwind. Eliseus grabbed hold of Elias’ Mantle, shouting: My father! Chariot of...
Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, Day Two
O Most Holy Mother of God, we rejoice in God our Saviour Who covers us with the Divine Protection of your prayers. Pondering your great...