A Divine Enclosure Set Round About Our Hearts
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Introit I cried out and you heard me, O God; bend your ear and hear my words: keep...
Quaerens me, sedisti lassus
Third Sunday of Lent John 4:5–52 A Monk’s Prayer Saint John makes a point of saying that, “Jesus, wearied as He was with His journey,...
Ecce ascendimus Ierosolymam
Second Wednesday of Lent Jeremiah 18: 18-20 Psalm 30: 4-5, 13, 14-15 Matthew 20: 17-28 The Sorrowful Passion of the Lord “Behold, we are going...
Condemned
Monday of the Second Week of Lent Daniel 9:4b-10 Psalm 78: 8, 9, 11 & 13 Luke 6:36-38 Sin’s Slimy Trail Last Friday the Gospel...
Vultum Tuum, Domine, Requiram
The Second Sunday of Lent The Transfiguration of the Lord Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 Psalm 26: 1, 7-9, 13-14 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 9:28-36 The Transfigured Face...
Convertens Animas
Saturday of the First Week of Lent Entrance Antiphon The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful,...
Sackcloth and Gladness
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent Jonah 3: 1-10 Psalm 50: 3-4, 12-13, 18-19 (R. 19b) Luke 11:29-32 Nineveh Nineveh is in the news....
Draw Me to Thy Open Side
In response to the Holy Father’s invitation to contemplate the wounded Side of Christ, I offer my own translation of a prayer “Alla Piaga Del...
The Mercy of God in the Face of His Christ
Saturday After Ash Wednesday The Voice of Mercy While we are yet on the threshold of Lent, Christ Jesus, the incarnate Mercy of God, passes...
A Lenten Poem
Friday Stations Red-covered they were passed out one by one like a Lenten communion drawn out of the cavernous tabernacle of Mercy sleeves, and distributed...
Fasting
Friday After Ash Wednesday Isaiah 58:1-9a Psalm 50: 3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19 Matthew 9:14-15 Holy Fasting Today the prophet Isaiah puts a question to God: “Why...
Let Dawn Our Darkened Spirits Bless
Turner’s “Sunrise” is, I think, the perfect illustration of our Lenten Lauds Hymn, Jam, Christe, Sol Iustitiae. The Lengthening Day Lent is a lovely word....