Enter Into the Veiled Places and Learn the Mysteries of God
Go to Be an Offering and a Fragrant Incense Today’s feast is Eastern in origin, Eastern in sensibility. To taste its mystery one has to...
Into the House of the Lord
Our Lady in the Temple The solemn dedication of the Church of the Mother of God near the Temple in Jerusalem took place on November...
The Earlier Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The image is a detail from Dürer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1519). I especially like Saint Anne’s motherly hand resting on Our Lady’s...
We cannot make the Church
The Church is not an apparatus, nor a social institution, nor one social institution among many others. It is a person. It is a woman....
At Fatima: with a heart vigilant in prayer
Come to Fatima to Pray Dearly beloved brothers and sisters, I too have come as a pilgrim to Fatima, to this “home” from which Mary...