When the fullness of time came
Tuesday of the Second Week in August From the Treatise against Heresies by St Irenaeus, Bishop & Martyr With God is nothing incomplete or out...
Let us sing the praises of Mary ever Virgin
From a Sermon delivered at the Council of Ephesus, by St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor of the Church Hail, Mary, Mother of God,...
Saturday in the IX Week after Pentecost,
From the Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Do not, O bishops, keep any such observances about legal and natural purgations, as thinking you are defiled...
Saint Peter’s Chains
From a Sermon by St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor of the Church Nothing is so glorious as a bond for Christ’s sake, as the...
SS. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus
Invitatory The God who conversed with men: * O come, let us adore. Hymn, Redditum luci, Dominus vocante Sing of the first fruits of the...
Wednesday in the IX Week after Pentecost
From a Homily by St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor of the Church Truly, the just man is bold as a lion; for he stood...
The blessed Elias: a type of the Saviour
From a Sermon by St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church Brethren dearly beloved, in the Lessons which are now being read to us...
The Annunciation
The First and Indispensable School of Holy Preaching Reading this sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great, given for Matins of today’s feast in the...
Now begin the mysteries
This morning at Matins, we had this magnificent sermon of Saint Augustine from the Treatise on John: Jam incipiunt mysteria. Non enim frustra fatigatur Jesus:...
Pope Saint Gregory to the Pastors of Souls
The Great Judgment Let us call to mind that dreadful day when the Judge shall come, and shall call to account His servants, to whom...
God seeketh thyself more than thy gift
Saint Augustine at Matins Today Let no man deem it a light thing when he trespasseth against his brother. For the Apostle Paul saith in...
The unsearchable mysteries of God
At Matins this morning: The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. At that time: God sent the angel Gabriel to a city of...
The Fellowship of the Angels
Yesterday at Matins: II NOCTURN From a Sermon by St Aelred, Abbot Let us take a look at ourselves and our city. Our way of...
John: Elias in Spirit
Yesterday at Matins: III NOCTURN The Lesson from the Holy Gospel according to John This was the testimony which John bore, when the Jews sent...
Let us attack the Lord on the way
This morning at Matins: From a Sermon by St Maximus of Turin, Bishop If women who have the care of a home will on certain...
Pope on Patriarch
Hail, O rich and shady Mountain of God, whereon pastured the True Lamb, Who hath taken away our sins and infirmities, Hab. iii. 3; Isa....
Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive
Saturday at Matins: From the Commentary on the Prophet Isaias by St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor Some of those who have translated the...
Blessed are the pure in heart
Friday at Matins: From a Sermon by St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”. Let us...
Keep the Word of God
Thursday at Matins: From a Sermon by St Bernard, Abbot & Doctor We have come to know a threefold coming of the Lord. The third...
They will come to thee and embrace thee
This morning at Matins: From a Homily by St Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor Keep ever in thy mind the fear of the Lord, being mindful...