An Act of Love
My confessor said something to me today that reminded me of a prayer that impressed me back in the days of my monastic youth, and...
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
For study and meditation: proper texts for the Mass of Saint Aelred, Abbot. January 12 Saint Aelred, Abbot Entrance Antiphon MR The Lord is my...
My Name is Thomas Aquinas
An Amazing Story Madrid, Nov 12, 2008 / 09:21 pm (CNA).- The Spanish daily “La Razon” has published an article on the pro-life conversion of...
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...
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
Today is also the feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity. These words of hers are not unlike those of her sister in Carmel, Thérèse...
Blessed Louis and Zélie Martin, pray for us!
Bienheureux Monsieur et Madame This morning, a married couple, the parents of a daughter who is a saint and a Doctor of the Church, were...
Intent on what lies before me
I really do love praying Matins in the pre-dawn darkness while, in their own way, the crickets, and cicadas, and birds sing their Nocturns outside....
Compassionate Saint Callistus I, Pope
One of the things I most love about the prayers of the Roman Rite is their compassionate realism. Today’s succinct Collect (in the traditional liturgical...
A Fruitful Love
Saint Daniel Comboni Today is the liturgical memorial of Saint Daniel Comboni, founder of two missionary institutes, tireless worker for the abolition of slavery, and...
La fornace d’Amore
Dom Eugène Vandeur, O.S.B. gives this prose in his meditations entitled, Les voies à la fournaise d’amour, and attributes it to the seraphic Saint Francis....
Ut gaudium meum in vobis sit
At Today’s Second Nocturn This is what I read at the Second Nocturn of Matins this morning. It is a good example of what gives...
Mass of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest
I am especially mindful today of all who devote themselves to the service of the poor in the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Tulsa,...
Our Lady of Mercy
Marian Orders and Institutes Our Blessed Lady is at the origin of any number of Orders, religious institutes, and monasteries. Very often she appeared, entrusting...
Collects: Memorial of Saint Gaetano Catanoso
Almighty and ever-living God, who gave to Saint Gaetano, your priest, the knowledge of your glory shining in the Face of Christ, mercifully grant that...
Evviva San Gennaro!
The miracle of Saint Januarius recurred at 9:45 this morning in the cathedral of Naples, filled with expectant devotees of the bishop of Benevento beheaded...
I went astray and still I remembered Thee
For my first entry from the little “provisional” Cenacle of the Eucharistic Face of Jesus in Tulsa, Oklahoma: a piece from the archives for the...
Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr
Collect God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who led your martyr Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross to the knowledge of your crucified...
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...
An American “Newman”
I am reading for the second or third time a splendid old biography of American Passionist Father Fidelis of the Cross (1840-1921), one of the...