Josefa Menendez: Confidence and Hope
December 29, 1923 Josefa Menéndez died at 33 years of age on December 29th, 1923 at the Convent of Les Feuillants, Poitiers, France. At that...
S. Ioannis Didaci Cuahtlatoatzin
Yes, that would be the much loved Saint Juan Diego of Guadalupe as he is designated in the new Solesmes Antiphonale Monasticum for December 9th....
Towards Advent
Late November Saints The saints of these last days of the liturgical year incite us to look beyond the conditions of this present life and...
The Heartless and Pitiless Celibate
The title of this entry comes not from me, but from Saint John Chrysostom’s homily at Matins. He is preaching on the parable of the...
Ballasts in Peter’s storm–tossed bark
Maria Fortunata Viti: A Nearly–Forgotten Benedictine Blessed Today is the feast of a now nearly–forgotten Benedictine Blessed: Maria Fortunata Viti. Back in October 1967, at...