The Boy who Saw the Mother of God
“How beautiful God is, how beautiful! But He is sad because of the sins of men. I want to console Him, I want to suffer...
Prayer of Saint Birgitta
I have long taken comfort in this prayer of Saint Birgitta of Sweden, whose feast we keep today. O Lord, make haste and illumine the...
The Holy Face in Franciscan Spirituality
When it comes to Franciscan spirituality, I, being a son of Saint Benedict and an unworthy disciple of Blessed Abbot Marmion, lay claim to nothing...
Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.
Would you have recognized him? This is none other than Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War...
Saint Jerome and Lectio Divina
Jerome and the Monastic Path Jerome, translator of the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible into Latin, the tongue of the common folk,...