Padre Pio, the Eucharist, and Reparation for Priests
Padre Pio Denied Communion When Fra Pio was yet a novice, his Master of Novices was a man named Padre Tommaso. Padre Tommaso’s reputation is...
An ‘Octave’ and a Chaplet of the Cross
An ‘Octave’ of the Cross 14 September Following on our previous post, today, the feast of the Apostle Saint Matthew, brings to a close a...
Dies Natalis of Blessed Anne of Jesus
Blessed Anne of Jesus and Mother Mectilde On the fourth of March, 1621, Blessed Anne of Jesus, the hand-picked disciple of St Teresa through whom...
The Cross at the Threshold of the Year
The cross has become something more than a historical memory; it does convey, almost as by a mathematical diagram, the truth about the real point...
Padre Pio Priest and Victim
Monsignor Arthur Calkins (1945-2024), Marian scholar par excellence and a dear friend of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle passed away unexpectedly earlier this...