So intimate an alliance
Priestly Union with the Blessed Virgin Mary Today, 19 August, is the feast of Saint John Eudes, priest and ardent mystic of the Hearts of...
A Gentle Insistence
Image of Our Lady of Kibeho, Mother of the Word When Mary Asks It sometimes happens that a soul will sense that Our Lady is...
The Knowledge of the Glory of God
2 Corinthians 4:7-15 Psalm 125: 1-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 Matthew 20:20-28 Treasure in Earthen Vessels “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that...
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
By giving the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help a place of honour in our homes, we accept her also into our hearts and...
Proper Mass of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Introit Rejoice we all in the Lord, as we keep festival in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary: whose solemnity makes angels joyful and sets...
Joy and Gladness Shall Be Thine
John the Baptist and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Today was the Vigil of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: eight days after the...
Feast of Our Lady of the Cenacle
Turn to Mary The Invitatory for today’s feast —Our Lady of the Cenacle—is drawn from the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles: Alleluia!...
Our Lady of Knock
I am going off to Knock today, having been invited there to address a gathering of Irish priests on the subject of Eucharistic adoration. I...
The Two Annunciations
The Annunciation of the Lord is being celebrated today on the Monday of Passion Week; Friday will be the Commemoration of the Compassion of the...
Where God is, There Is a Future
How I wish that the Holy Father’s words on September 23rd at the Marian sanctuary of Etzelsbach might reach every Catholic on earth. Tolle et...
The Things That Are Above
A Commentary on the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary There is no better way to enter into the mystery of any...
Maria Santissima del Bagno
Last night’s festivities in honour of la Madonna del Bagno began with Holy Mass at 7:00 p.m. The Father Guardian of the Franciscan Solitude of...
Benedict XVI at Saint Mary Major
My Musings Returning to Sepicciano, where the church bells ring out the quarter hour and the parish church is truly the heart of the village;...
Fiat mihi secundum Verbum tuum
It was in 1973 or 74, I think, when a young man, fresh from a heady experience of monastic life in a foreign land, met...
His Co-Worker in My Redemption
As a reading for the Second Nocturn, the Solesmes Monastic Lectionary for the Hours (1993) gives for today the magnificent prayer of Saint Ildephonsus of...
Follow the Way of Beauty
On 17 December 2010 Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Pontifical Academies during their 15th Public Session on “The Assumption of Mary, Sign of Consolation and...
Primary School of Prayer of the Heart
The Antiphons of the Final Days of Advent Today at Lauds the Church begins a series of proper antiphons for each day until Christmas. These...
The Missa Aurea
During the Middle Ages, the Mass of the Missus Est — the first words of the Gospel of the Annunciation — on the Ember Wednesday...
Hope of Thy Children Scarred by Sin
Power of the Mother With the Son For if “God heareth not sinners, but if a man be a worshipper of Him and do His...
Entrustment to the Maternal Heart of Our Lady
Feast of the Divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary Yesterday, October 11th, was in 1962, as the Holy Father notes in his discourse, the...