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...