Seeking the Intercession of Father Lukas
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!
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
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!
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
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...
An Occasion of Grace for Priests
Called to a Vocation of Holiness “I would remind thee to fan the flame of that special grace which God kindled in thee when my...
Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests
Collect of the Votive Mass of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest O God, by whom Thine only-begotten Son has been established High...
Father Damien, A Priest Adorer
I find my consolation in the one and only companion who will never leave me, that is, our Divine Saviour in the Holy Eucharist. ....
Trentotto anni di messa!
For The Reverend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins on the 38th Anniversary of His Ordination to the Holy Priesthood: The Holy Spirit will honour Mary and,...
Immersing Ourselves in Prayer
Last evening, in speaking to the bishops of the Church in the United States, the Holy Father called “the imitation of Christ in holiness of...
2008 World Day of Prayer for Priests
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart Friday, May 30, 2008, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be the Seventh Annual World Day of...
Living the “Totus Tuus”
Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea Tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor Tuum, Maria. I am all thine, and all...
Visits
This is the image of Saint Tarcisius that I brought back with from the catacombs of San Sebastiano in Rome. Back in the 1950s and...
Pope Benedict XVI on Priestly Spirituality
A huge thank you to Sandro Magister for providing readers with the Holy Father’s six Holy Week homilies. His homily at the Mass of Chrism...
The Most Precious Blood
One cannot enter into Holy Week without contemplating the adorable mystery of the Precious Blood. I am completely smitten by Bernini’s little known depiction of...
When Priests Find A Bethany
I thank my friend Lisa for her wise and compassionate words to Sotto Voce, the Irish priest so many of us are carrying in prayer....
An Hour of Companionship
When Fulton J. Sheen was ordained a priest, he promised Our Lord to make a Holy Hour daily before the Blessed Sacrament. He remained faithful...
Seeking Solace
The reflections of an Irish Catholic priest on his experience of loneliness moved me deeply, and confirmed me in own calling to adore and intercede...
Strengthen Ye the Feeble Hands
Monday of the Second Week of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 Psalm 84:8ab and 9, 10-11, 12-13 (R. Isaiah 35:4f) Luke 5:17-26 The Promises of God Again...
A New Priest of the Pierced Heart of Christ
. . . Having completed His sacrifice, and giving up His spirit, the side of Christ is pierced and out flowed blood and water. It...