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...
Evviva Santa Rita!
In those places where Corpus Christi will be celebrated on Sunday, May 25th, tomorrow, Thursday, May 22nd, may be kept as the feast of Saint...
A Saint on Pilgrimage
Notre-Dame-du-Laus Yesterday I read an account of Saint Peter Julian Eymard’s pilgrimage to the shrine of Notre Dame du Laus (pronounced Loh) in 1865. The...