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...
Recordare
Wednesday Within the Second Week of Lent Jeremiah 18: 18-20 Matthew 20: 17-28 Beata Passio On Sunday last we celebrated the Transfiguration of the Lord....
Et ad salutaria dirigatur
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 Iacta cogitatum tuum, GR, 92. Matthew 23: 1-12 Sighs Too Deep for Words Today’s Collect...
Feast of the Via Crucis
In the traditional Franciscan calendar, the First Friday of March is kept as the feast of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross. The...
Praying for Conversion
Monday of the First Week of Lent Convert us, O God our salvation, and, so that we may profit by this work of forty days,...