Category: Personal Musings

I have wanted for some time to write again about the grace of the prayer of repetition. Today a God–seeking soul shared with me that...

I offered Holy Mass in thanksgiving for my twenty years of priesthood today, gathering with family and friends in the little church of the Monastery...

Being a Papist and not a Puritan, I have always felt somewhat ambiguous about the Thanksgiving holiday . . . not about the domestic observance...

I borrowed the logo from my brother Terence’s dog training business for this entry because I don’t have a photo of Dulcie (named for a...

As I was teaching my weekly liturgy class to the nuns of the monastery and their friends this morning, I glanced out the window and...

On November 16th, I will celebrate the 20th anniversary of my ordination to the holy priesthood. I was ordained on the feast of Saint Gertrude...

I leave today for The Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, Illinois where I will be giving a conference on — Are you ready for this? —...

On Saturday the family gathered to celebrate the 25th birthday of my eldest nephew, Sean Patrick Cable. Sean, or Sean—o as I call him affectionately,...

I had two encounters today that made me very happy. The first took place after Mass. I was in the sacristy removing my vestments when...

Padre Luca Maria Zecchetti, O.Cist. celebrates his onomastico today. Don Luca, a native of Milano, is the prior of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He possesses...

I think that the best book I ever read on lectio divina is one by Denys Gorce. I read it back in 1972 and I...