Do your best. But never give up your beads.
One of my heavenly friends — in some way, I might even consider him a spiritual father of mine – is the Benedictine Dom Eugène...
Stirring Up the Power of God
Friday of the First Week of Advent Isaiah 29: 17-24 Psalm 26: 1, 4, 13-14 Matthew 9:27-31 Stir Up Today’s Collect, addressed to Our Lord...
Lest We Faint in the Way
First Wednesday of Advent Isaiah 25:6-10a Psalm 22: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 Matthew 15:29-37 The Eucharist The liturgy of the Wednesday of the First Week...
Consolation
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 71: 1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Luke 10:21-24 Today’s Saints We celebrate the Holy Mysteries today...
And A Little Child Shall Lead Them
I posted this homily last year, but decided to offer it anew this Advent. Both Dom Vital Léhodey and Mère Yvonne-Aimée de Jésus continue to...
Spes Nostra
Monday of the First Week of Advent Isaiah 4:2-6 Psalm 121: 1-2, 3-4a, 4b-5, 6-7), 8-9 (R. 1) Matthew 8:5-11 Isaiah’s Gift Spe Salvi, the...
Conditor Alme Siderum
“At the very moment when the Magi, guided by the star, adored Christ the new king, astrology came to an end, because the stars were...
Ad Te Levavi and Spe Salvi
An Introit and an Encyclical There is an immense hope in the liturgy of the First Sunday of Advent, making it perfectly consonant with Spe...
First Sunday of Advent
Entrance Antiphon GR Unto you have I lifted up my soul. O my God, I trust in you, let me not be put to shame;...
Jubilee of Lourdes
December 8, 2007 marks the opening of the Jubilee Year of Lourdes: 150 years after the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception,...
He Who Prays Learns Hope
A first essential setting for learning hope is prayer. When no one listens to me any more, God still listens to me. When I can...
Spes Nostra, Salve!
The Holy Father’s Encyclical Spe Salvi ends in a splendid prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Spes Nostra, Our Hope. One of the high points...
Où donc est ta demeure?
A number of years ago, I composed music for a French Office hymn for the feast of Saint Andrew. It was a feastday gift for...
All Saints Day Homily
I took this photo of the sacred relics of the saints exposed in the monastery chapel after Second Vespers of All Saints. At Holy Mass...
November: Praying For the Holy Souls
It must have been forty years ago — or more — that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey of Saint-André-de Bruges and...
The Holy Spirit will teach you
[A note came from Fr. Mark in France today; he hasn’t been able to post to the blog, but he did send this homily which...
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca
12 September Feast of the Holy Name of Mary Think of Mary, call upon Mary. Collect Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that to all...
A Little Bit of Heaven Present on Earth
Monday of the Twenty-Third Week of the Year I Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Good Counsel Colossians 1:24–2:3 Psalm 61:5-6, (R. 7a)...
The Earlier Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
For some years now, especially around the Marian feasts of September 8th, September 12th, November 21st, and December 8th, I have prayed my rosary while...
God Shows Us His Face and Opens to Us His Heart
Rather than preach my own homily this morning, I read the homily given by the Holy Father today at Mariazell. When the Successor of Saint...