Salva Nos: Perimus (Save us, we perish!)
Christ Calms the Storm The Mass propers for today are taken from the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. When Easter is early, these propers are moved...
God’s Liturgical Providence Speaks of St. Thérèse
Although St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face is constantly on our mind in the monastery — and more often than...
The Vigil of the Nativity of Mary
A Collect for the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ANT. Crastina die in ascensu diluculi egredietur stella ex Jacob divini luminis...
Christ’s Manifestation in Mary
Stella Ista The fifth antiphon for the Epiphany is a sweet, yet somehow haunting, seventh mode melody. As it is sung again and again, at...
The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Moon
September 5, O Luna Tota Pulchra ANT. O Luna tota pulchra et sine macula, semper gratia et gloria plena! Luna perfecta in æternum! Luna splendidissima...
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 Blessed Virgin, Holy in the Womb of St. Anne
September 3, O Ignis ANT. O Ignis effulgens et inextinguibilis! Ignis inflammans et illuminans! Ignis divinæ caritatis, qui in utero lates beatissimæ Annæ! Veni, appare...
The Deifying Light and Mary, the Mount of God
The Deifying Light Selection of the Rule of St. Benedict for January 2, May 3, September 2 Let us arise, therefore, at long last, at...
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...
Deus, cuius providentia
The Collect It is, as I have so often said, by means of the Collect of the day — prayed once at Holy Mass, as...
Diabólica vitáre contágia
Da, quaesumus, Dómine, pópulo tuo diabólica vitáre contágia: et te solum Deum pura mente sectári. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy people may...