Category: Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar

Pope Benedict XVI on Saint Tarcisius, Martyr

16 August 2017

In our proper Benedictine calendar, today is the feast of Saint Tarcisius, martyr of the Most Holy Eucharist. Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Saint Tarcisius...

Sit laus plena, sit sonora

21 June 2017

A Meditation for Corpus Domini Remember all the desert way through which the Lord your God has brought you: forty years of willful wandering. Remember...

Sic in sancto apparui tibi

15 June 2017

So in the holy place, I contemplate thee. Psalm 62:3 Silence of the Sacred Host, pervade me. Hiddenness of the Sacred Host, envelop me. Humility...

Corpus Domini

15 June 2017

Hail, Festival Day! Hail, Day of Sion’s sweetest hymns! Hail, Day of timeless adoration! Hail, Day of lavish jubilation! Hail, Day of our most fragrant...

Adoro Te Devote

15 June 2017

Yearning, I adore you, wondrous hidden God, Bread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart. Give me now the faith that sees darkly...

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