Category: Priesthood

Seeking the Intercession of Father Lukas

16 November 2008

I am beginning today a novena to Father Lukas Etlin, O.S.B., a monk of Conception Abbey known for his tender devotion to the Mother of...

O Hostie rayonnante!

13 October 2008

On the feast of Corpus Christi, la Fête-Dieu, 1931, Mother Marie des Douleurs (1902-1983) wrote a meditation in the form of a dialogue with Jesus,...

Give Us Priests Who Are On Fire

6 August 2008

Our friends at WorldPriest offer the following reflection on this prayer dear to Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face: Saint...

Il est là!

4 August 2008

L’abbaye aux puces Twenty-nine summers ago, my dear friend Père Jacob, O.P. (not yet a Friar Preacher) and I were on a kind of back-packing...

Pope Benedict XVI to Priests

4 July 2008

This particular teaching of the Holy Father went straight to my heart. It is, I think, a confirmation of the service I am called to...

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