From the Epistle of Sexagesima Sunday
Nicolas Poussin, The Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1649-50 This glorious entanglement of arms and legs, both mortal and angelic represents Saint Paul’s rapture up to...
Saint Chrysostom on Saint Paul
For the Commemoration of Saint Paul, here is an extract from a magnificent sermon of Saint John Chrysostom. The icon depicts Saint John Chrysostom writing...
Conversion: Saint Paul’s and Ours
Image: A detail from the incomparable Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul. A Divine Inbreaking For Benedictines who make a vow of conversion — conversatio morum...
Sufficit tibi gratia mea
Sexagesima Sunday 12 February 2012 The Introit Today’s Mass opens with a great cry asking God to wake up. The prayer is one of a...
Conversion: Saint Paul’s and Ours
Image: A detail from the incomparable Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul. A Divine Inbreaking For Benedictines who make a vow of conversion — conversatio morum...