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...