Category: Lent 2010

O mulier, magna est fides tua

18 February 2016

A Favourite Antiphon This evening’s Magnificat Antiphon, taken from the gospel of the day (Matthew 15:21-28) is one for which I wait all year long....

Ut sanentur

7 March 2010

End of the Penal Code This morning at Chapter we concluded the eight chapters of the Holy Rule (XXII-XXX) that comprise Saint Benedict’s so-called “penal...

Confirmetur in eo caritas

4 March 2010

Chapter This morning at Chapter (a daily reflection on a chapter of the Rule of Saint Benedict) we read one of my favourite passages: “That...

Yielding to the attraction of the saints

23 February 2010

Every Lent I choose — or rather ask Our Lord to choose for me — a saint or saints to be my Lenten companions. From...

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