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...
O Rosario benedetto di Maria
Prayer at Noon For Catholics in Italy and throughout the world, today, Sunday, 3 October 2010, marks the return of an appointment with the Supplica,...
Prayer for the Conversion of England
The forthcoming Apostolic Visit of Our Holy Father to the United Kingdom invites us to pray boldly for the conversion of England: the return of...
Will you pray with us?
Novena to Our Lady of Knock August 13 — 21, 2010 Immaculate Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Knock, Queen of the Cenacle, and Mother of...
Prayer to Mary, the Sacerdotal Virgin
Marked by the priestly piety of the school of Bérulle, Pope Saint Pius X was singularly favourable to the invocation of Our Blessed Lady under...
The Father’s Will
This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on Pope Benedict XVI’s Consecration of Priests to the Maternal Heart of Mary. I am writing...
Praying Over the Act of Consecration
I began this morning a little commentary on the Holy Father’s Consecration of Priests to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I will have to post...