Fiat mihi secundum Verbum tuum
It was in 1973 or 74, I think, when a young man, fresh from a heady experience of monastic life in a foreign land, met...
On the Threshold of the Great Week
Saturday in Passiontide Ezekiel 37:21-28 Jeremiah 31 John 11:45-56 Mother of Sorrows, Keeper of the Door There is on Mount Athos a greatly venerated icon...
The Approach of Passiontide
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jeremiah 11:18-20 Psalm 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 John 7:40-53 Passiontide Everything in today’s Mass indicates that Passiontide is upon...
Venite Ad Aquas
Tuesday Within the Fourth Week of Lent Ezechiel 47:1-9, 12 Psalm 45:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 John 5:1-16 All You That Thirst Today’s texts are just waiting...
Searching the Scriptures
Francesco di Giorgio Martin (1439-1502) painted this disrobing of Our Lord in His Passion. The youthful aspect of Christ recalls Joseph, who was also stripped...
