A Petrine Heritage
Driving up the mountain today with Padre Antonio, O.F.M., the Guardian of the Convento of Santa Maria Occorevole, we talked about the origins of Christianity...
Mountains of the Lord, bless the Lord!
Today, in the company of my Biondi relatives, I had the wonderful experience of going to the summit of Monte Acero in Faicchio, Province of...
Tornato a Sepicciano
How can I express the joy that I feel here? I arrived yesterday afternoon in the ancestral home of my great-grandmother in Sepicciano, Piedimonted’Alife. The...
Archbishop Nichols on the Carthusian Martyrs
Here is the sermon preached last Wednesday by His Grace, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster for Solemn Evensong and the Commemoration of the Carthusian Martyrs...
Akathist to Blessed John Paul II
AKATHIST TO OUR FATHER AMONG THE SAINTS, JOHN PAUL THE GREAT, POPE OF ROME (Written by Alexander Roman, PhD, Toronto, Canada for private recitation) Kontakion...
The Harlot Who Won Heaven
Feast of Saint Mary of Egypt, Penitent Having escaped the fog of sin, and having illumined thy heart with the light of penitence, O glorious...
Acquiring the Mind of the Church
The Authentic Method Instituted by the Church to Unite Souls to Jesus Père Congar in 1963 quoted by Geoffrey Hull in The Banished Heart, 2010:...
Pater!
The grace of this Lent is a progressive passage into the mystery of the baptized soul’s relationship with the Father. This relationship is nourished by...
Cast the burden of thy cares upon the Lord
Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent For me, this old tabernacle door depicting Our Lord standing in a chalice and filling it with the...
Cardinal Piacenza Endorses Adoratio 2011
Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France received the following letter of support for Adoratio 2011 from Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Prefect of the...
Sayings of Saint Peter Damian
Habit makes the cell sweet for the monk, while wandering makes it seem dreadful. For those who gad about, the cell is a prison, but...
Friend of the Church in Oklahoma
Let us profit of Holy Mass to address to God our ardent prayers to draw upon ourselves and upon the Indian and Black peoples the...
Thursday Adoration & Reparation for Priests
A reminder that it is fitting to dedicate every Thursday to adoration and reparation for priests: one hour spent in the radiance of Our Lord’s...
Marthe Robin (1902–1981)
Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of the Servant of God, Marthe Robin. In 1982 I had the privilege of making a retreat...
Cardinal Says Eucharistic Adoration Urgent
Thanks to Monsignor Michael Palud for calling my attention to this. For Cardinal Canizares’ complete French text go here. I wish I had time today...
Forty Hours: An Appeal
Unrest and Rumours of War At the risk of sounding alarmist and apocalyptic, I am compelled to make this appeal. The distressing events in Egypt...
Holy Father Presents Catechism for Youth
Clearly, this is a message coming from the Holy Father’s heart. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the...
Blessed Scalabrini on Eucharistic Adoration
I have great admiration for Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), Bishop of Piacenza and founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles for...
Some are called to flight, others to fight
Cardinal Mercier quotes Saint Bernard saying: Men of the cloister, be not too quick to judge those who, being obliged to live in the midst...
Cardinal Piacenza on Priestly Celibacy, Part I
In the context of a three-day conference (24-25-26 January 2011) on Priestly Celibacy, organized by the Society of John Mary Vianney and the Shrine of...