Category: Holy Week 2014

Lest we betray Him with a kiss

The Call to Holiness My monastic vocation, as it has developed and matured over the years, is intimately bound up with the lives of my...

I will go before you

There You Shall See Me The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon still echo in our hearts: “It is therefore written: I...

Grant Us Breathing Space

Monday of Holy Week Today’s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the...

Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion

Into the Silence Listening to the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to speak. Perhaps there...

Ipse est ianua, ipse est via

This morning, Saint Ambrose at Matins: Ipse est per quem ascendimus, et ad quem ascendimus. Ipse est janua, ipse est via, qui aperitur, et qui...