Category: Homilies

Clean Hands and a Pure Heart

Monday of the Thirty–Fourth Week of the Year II Revelation 14:1–3, 4b–5 Psalm 23:1–2, 3–4ab, 5–6 (R. 6) Luke 21:1–4 Prayer for the Holy Father...

Holy Mass: Our Great Thanksgiving

Votive Mass In Thanksgiving to God 1 Kings 8:55-61 Psalm 144: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 John 15:9-17 “Solomon stood before the altar of the...

Et Ecce Ostium Apertum in Caelo

Thirty–Third Wednesday of the Year II Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Revelation 4:1–11 Psalm 150:1–2, 3–4, 5–6 (Rev 4:8b) Luke 19:11–28 Heaven’s Open...

Ecce, Sponsus Venit!

Strong, Serene, Majestic, Invincible When in 1867 Abbot Prosper Guéranger set about opening a Benedictine monastery for women at Solesmes, he placed the whole enterprise...

Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem.

Commemoration of All the Departed Who Militated Under the Rule of Saint Benedict Romans 8:14–23 Psalm 63, 1, 2–3, 4–5, 7–8 (R. 1b Gospel: John...