Category: Saints

Dominus meus et Deus meus

Where deep the spear had pierced, there Thomas searched thy side, Whence for the nations’ health, poured forth the healing tide; By this and each...

After First Vespers of Midsummer Day

Oh, the joy of First Vespers of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist: a glorious set of antiphons and (in the monastic Office) an...

In plateas et vicos civitatis

When I came to the Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers this evening, I made the delightful discovery of the text (with a splendid First Mode melody)...

Saint Alice the Leper

Ablaze With the Love of Christ Today’s Saint Alice of Schaerbeek, a Cistercian-Benedictine nun, was one of a constellation of holy women who in the...

Saints Marcellinus and Peter

O God, Who by the glorious confession of the holy martyrs Marcellinus and Peter, dost surround and protect us, grant that we may go forward...