A Marian Grace Sweeping Through the Church
On December 8th, His Eminence Ivan Cardinal Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, opened the Jubilee Year of Lourdes. His homily...
Am I not here whom am your Mother?
“Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my dear little son: let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you: let nothing alter your heart or...
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother Clothed With the Sun
This beautiful Akathist to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe is the work of Dr. Alexander Roman. Akathist to Our Lady of Guadalupe 1 Kontakion...
Strengthen Ye the Feeble Hands
Monday of the Second Week of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 Psalm 84:8ab and 9, 10-11, 12-13 (R. Isaiah 35:4f) Luke 5:17-26 The Promises of God Again...
Whatsoever Things Were Written
Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 71: 1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Romans 15:4-9 Matthew 3: 1-12 The Comfort of the Scriptures Today’s Second Reading...
More on the Immaculate Conception
First Vespers Last evening, as I opened my antiphonal to begin the First Vespers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I was...
Mary, Younger Than Sin
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Genesis 3: 9-15, 20 Ephesis 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Back to Creation’s Dawn The mystery...
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...