Category: Our Father Saint Benedict

A Torch Lifted High

20 March 2018

A Translation and a Commentary In July 2011 I translated this extraordinary page from the writings of Catherine de Bar, Mother Mectilde du Saint-Sacrement (1614-1698),...

Learning How to Die

20 March 2018

Death on Maundy Thursday We shall celebrate tomorrow (March 21st) the feast of the Transitus of Our Blessed Father Saint Benedict. Blessed Schuster, in his...

Of ends and of beginnings (LXXIII)

31 August 2016

CHAPTER LXXIII. That the whole observance of Perfection is not set down in this Rule 1 May. 31 Aug. 31 Dec. We have written this...

Vir Dei Benedictus

11 July 2016

One Desire: To Please God Alone Our father Saint Benedict! Saint Gregory resumes in a single phrase our father’s luminous purity of heart: Soli Deo...

Thy mercy dost compass me about

3 April 2016

Nicholas and Benjamin were welcomed as postulants today, Divine Mercy Sunday. Quasimodo Sunday: The Feast of Divine Mercy In the early Church, the newly-baptized would...

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