Category: Saints

The Surpassing Power of Love

9 February 2010

Preface for the Feast of Saint Scholastica, Virgin Truly it is right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you...

Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Two

22 January 2010

The Second Day of the Novena Saturday, 23 January 2010 O Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son, establish Thyself as a furnace...

Novena in Honour of Blessed Abbot Marmion

21 January 2010

The image of Blessed Abbot Marmion is a photograph I took of a painting in the Irish College in Rome in 2006. I remain grateful...

Adorers of the Eucharistic Face of Jesus

8 October 2009

A Thursday of Adoration and Reparation For the very first time, our embryonic monastery observed the Thursday of Adoration and Reparation for Priests. Being three,...

Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

26 September 2009

Tomorrow, the feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian, is Lisa Hoffer’s 50th birthday. Born under the protection of the Holy Physicians, Lisa pursues their vocation....

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