Category: Lent 2015

Priests who have their gaze directed to God

15 March 2015
Address to the Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society All Hallows, Drumcondra, Dublin Saturday, 14 March 2015 Their Gaze Directed to God Just a few days...

Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society

15 March 2015
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent 14 March 2015 Saint Joseph’s Young Priests Society I was invited to address yesterday the Dublin Congress of...

Now begin the mysteries

13 March 2015
This morning at Matins, we had this magnificent sermon of Saint Augustine from the Treatise on John: Jam incipiunt mysteria. Non enim frustra fatigatur Jesus:...

Let not one be wanting at the last

10 March 2015
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Well into the 40 days of the Lenten Fast we are given the feast of the 40 Soldier Martyrs of...

Judge not, condemn not, and forgive

10 March 2015
Sin’s Slimy Trail This morning’s lesson from Saint Augustine invited us to look at sins committed against the brethren. The Doctor of Grace would have...

A Master of Prayer

1 March 2015
Learning How to Pray from Blessed Marmion Blessed Abbot Marmion’s prayers are, at once, biblical, profoundly theological, deeply personal, and altogether shaped by the language...

Dom Guéranger: A Prophet

27 February 2015
In his commentary on the lessons for the Ember Saturday in Lent, Dom Guéranger (1805-1875) writes: Does one want to understand the solidity of a...

What has God got to do with fasting?

27 February 2015
Just it is indeed and fitting, right and for our lasting good, that we should always and everywhere give thanks to thee, Lord, holy Father,...

In the Wilderness

25 February 2015
Draw Me After Thee The First Sunday of Lent sets before us the mystery of Our Lord’s forty-day fast in the wilderness. But we are...

Cum gaudio Sancti Spiritus

22 February 2015
Saint Benedict the Practical When it comes to the observance of Lent, Saint Benedict is very practical, very concrete. He doesn’t spend a lot of...

Audivit Dominus et misertus est mihi

21 February 2015
Saturday After Ash Wednesday At the Introit: The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my Helper. V. I will...

With a Book and a Heavenly Companion

20 February 2015
In the grey light of early morning on Ash Wednesday, between Lauds and Prime, we assembled in the Chapter Room to listen, once again, to...

The Desert of the Most Holy Sacrament

18 February 2015
This painting of Christ in the wilderness is the work of Alessandro Bonvicino (1498–1554), know as the Moretto da Brescia. It is found in the...