Immolated on the Altar
Third Friday of Paschaltide Memorial of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Acts 9:1-20 John 6:52-59 Saint Stanislaus We celebrate today the feast of Saint Stanislaus,...
Visits
This is the image of Saint Tarcisius that I brought back with from the catacombs of San Sebastiano in Rome. Back in the 1950s and...
Keeping Company With Mary
Another Joseph Reading the Martyrology this morning I discovered that today is the dies natalis of Saint Hermann Joseph, one of my cherished heavenly friends...
Tamquam faciem angeli
Third Monday of Pascha Acts 6:8–15 John 6:22–29 Like the Face of an Angel Saint Luke describes Saint Stephen as having a face like that...
And the First Saturday
The Marian Dimension of the Death of John Paul II In speaking last week of the holy death of the Servant of God John Paul...
Beata Maria in Resurrectione Domini
In how many places will the Mass of Beata Maria in Resurrectione Domini be celebrated tomorrow? The proper texts of the Mass are found in...
When a Priest Adores
Reading the biography of Virginie Danion (1819-1900), foundress of the community of L’Action de Grâces de Mauron, I came upon this excerpt of a letter...
A First Saturday
Was anyone else struck by the Holy Father’s allusion, in today’s Regina Caeli message, to the “Marian dimension” of Pope John Paul II’s death on...
Ave, Maria, gratia plena
This beautiful painting of the Annunciation was the work of 11 year old Joseph Gillain who painted it in 1925, after receiving a box of...
Vultus Christi, Vultus Misericordiae
Pope Benedict XVI Calls the Face of Christ the Supreme Revelation of the Mercy of God The Holy Father’s message at the Regina Caeli today,...
In Laetitia
Saturday of Pascha The Lord brought forth His people with joy, alleluia: and His chosen ones with gladness, alleluia, alleluia. V. Give glory to the...
In Spe, Alleluia
Friday of Pascha “The Lord led forth his people in hope, alleluia: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia” (Ps 77: 53). The...
Pope Benedict XVI on Priestly Spirituality
A huge thank you to Sandro Magister for providing readers with the Holy Father’s six Holy Week homilies. His homily at the Mass of Chrism...
Sapientia aperuit os mutum
Thursday of Pascha Your victorious hand, O Lord, have they magnified, with one accord, alleluia: for wisdom has opened the mouth of the dumb, and...
Adoration: March 27, 28, 29
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week, at the Monastery of the Glorious Cross, 61 Burban Drive, Branford, Connecticut, there will be adoration of the...
Timely Mercies
Arrival Paul Z. and I arrived in snowy Buffalo last night after a nine hour trip. Father Jacob was at the airport to welcome us....
Tell Me Where You Were
Abba Joseph related that Abba Isaac said, ‘I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and I was on...
Grant Us Breathing Space
Monday of Holy Week Today’s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the...
Spes Mea
Monday of Holy Week Isaiah 42:1-7 Psalm 26:1, 2, 3, 13-14 (R. v. 1a) John12:1-11 But After I Shall Be Risen The bright eighth mode...
The Most Precious Blood
One cannot enter into Holy Week without contemplating the adorable mystery of the Precious Blood. I am completely smitten by Bernini’s little known depiction of...