Category: Saints

Supplica to Saint Rita of Cascia

21 May 2018

The saints befriend those whom God entrusts to them. Often the saints introduce themselves into one’s life by means of a reference in conversation, the...

Ut sit et fortes quod cupiant et infirmi non refugiant (LXIV:1)

21 April 2018

Let him so temper all things, that the strong may have something to strive after, and the weak nothing at which to take alarm. (Chapter...

Neurosis, Mental Suffering . . . and Grace

16 March 2018

Caryll Houselander (1901 – 1954) writes out of her own experience, and gets it right. Miss Houselander refers to the childhood experiences of Saint Stanislaus...

Cum sanctis tuis (XIV)

17 February 2018

CHAPTER XIV. How the Night-Office is to Be Said on Saints’ Days17 Feb. 18 June. 18 Oct. On the Festivals of Saints, and all other...

Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo

23 January 2018

Doctor of the Virginity of Mary Today is the feast of Saint Ildephonsus, Archbishop of Toledo (+ 23 January 667). Dom Guéranger calls him the...

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