Category: Blessed Virgin Mary

Difficult Pastoral Situations: The Marian Solution

20 December 2016

Difficult pastoral situations are nothing new. They are, in fact, as old as Mother Church herself. It has never not been hard to follow Our...

I Will Betake Myself to Thy House

10 December 2016

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...

Ad aeterna tabernacula festinare

26 November 2016

The Cross, the Passion, and the Most Holy Eucharist Today’s Saint Silvester Guzzolini (1177-1267), founder of the so-called Blue Benedictines (from the colour of their...

Maria Bambina

8 September 2016

Maria Bambina Unto us a little girl is born; unto us a daughter is given. “The Holy Ghost shall come upon her, and the power...

Of ends and of beginnings (LXXIII)

31 August 2016

CHAPTER LXXIII. That the whole observance of Perfection is not set down in this Rule 1 May. 31 Aug. 31 Dec. We have written this...

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