Category: Saints

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...

Mass of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest

I am especially mindful today of all who devote themselves to the service of the poor in the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Tulsa,...