Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere
Showing Forth His Face In the Ordinary Form, the Collect for today’s memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo contains an extraordinary phrase. We beseech (quaesumus) the...
Come to me, who adore Thee
Saint Jude at the Mystical Supper The Gospel tells us that Simon was one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus called to Himself and named...
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
The Cheerful Ascetic A Redemptorist Missionary priest, Blessed Francis served in various places in the United States during the turbulent years of the Civil War....
A Vocation’s Unexpected Turns
Birth, Passion, Death Each year the Church gives us two feastdays of Saint John the Baptist: the first on June 24th to mark his nativity,...
Did anyone else notice this?
The Modification of a Collect A few days ago, on the feast of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, the holy Curé of Ars, I preached on the...