Category: Blessed Virgin Mary

Mary and the Light of the First Day

Light like a Nebula The creation of light on the first day, three days before the creation of the sun, exerts a certain fascination upon...

The Presignation of Mary in the Old Law

September 1, O Radius ANT. O Radius divinæ claritatis, candor lucis æternæ, splendidior sole lumineque pulchrior, Virgo Maria! Noli tardare, cito veni, et illumina mentes...

O Antiphons for the Marian New Year

New Beginnings “Nunc coepi!” cries out St. Josemaria Escriva, ” now I begin!” “This,” he writes, “is the cry of a soul in love which, at...

Praying for the sick

The Comfort of the Mystical Body Nearly every day people write to us or come to the monastery asking us to pray for the sick....