The Secret of Mary
Tomorrow is the liturgical memorial of Saint Louis–Marie Grignion de Montfort. His writings have been a lamp unto my feet and a fire in my...
Never To Depart From Her Counsels
I just came up to my room from the basilica after having celebrated the 6:30 p.m. parish Mass. Today is the liturgical memorial of Our...
Ecce ascendimus Ierosolymam
Second Wednesday of Lent Jeremiah 18: 18-20 Psalm 30: 4-5, 13, 14-15 Matthew 20: 17-28 The Sorrowful Passion of the Lord “Behold, we are going...
Mater Mea, Fiducia Mea!
My telephone rang this morning shortly before 9:00. An Apostle of the Sacred Heart was calling to invite me to join her and two others...
The Comfort of the Beads
Given the grace of today’s feast, you may want to begin praying the Rosary of the Seven Dolours. It is prayed on seven sets of...
2 February, The Presentation of the Lord
Malachy 3:1-4 Psalm 23: 7, 8, 9, 10 Hebrews 2: 14-18 Luke 2: 22-40 Susception Day “We receive, O God, your mercy, in the midst...
Ave, Maria — Our Lady’s Sunday in Advent
Today is Our Lady’s Sunday in Advent. Pope Paul VI, influenced, no doubt, by the ancient practice of the venerable Church of Milan, desired that...
Ave, verum Corpus natum, de Maria Virgine
In a certain sense Mary lived her Eucharistic faith even before the institution of the Eucharist, by the very fact that she offered her virginal...
Ab initio, et ante saecula creata sum
At the beginning of time, before the world was, I was created, and to all eternity I shall not cease to be (Ecclus 24:14). How...
Our Lady in Advent
The presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the liturgy of Advent is like the fragrance of roses in December. Mary is everywhere, drawing us...
Gaudens gaudebo in Domino
December 8 The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Psalm 97: 1, 2-3ab, 3cdd-4 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 A Song...
Tota Pulchra Es, O Maria
Mary of Great Beauty Some weeks ago, I stopped to browse at Cutler’s on Broadway, New Haven’s best and biggest record shop. For me, a...
O Marie, Ma Reine et ma Mère
Today is the anniversary of the death of Monsieur le Chanoine Louis François CROSET. Born at Annecy-le-Vieux in 1914, he was ordained to the priesthood...
Mater Ecclesiae
Forty–two years ago today, on 21 November 1964, Pope Paul VI solemnly declared the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of the Church. Pope John Paul II...
If Today You Hear Her Voice, Harden Not Your Hearts
“There is nothing that I will not do for sinners.” The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of All Saints is also the Mother of Mercy...