The Ignatius Press RSV Lectionary
The critique of the NAB Lectionary by Father Neuhaus reminded me that for some time I have wanted to recommend the two volume RSV Lectionary...
The Church Forever Young
Here are the novices (wearing the white scapular) of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in Austria. Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting the abbey next...
In conspectu Domini
Friday of the Nineteenth Week of the Year I Joshua 24:1-13 Psalm 135:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24 Matthew 19:3-12 In Ranks Before God In today’s...
Kings in the Calendar
Collect Grant unto your Church, we beseech you, Almighty God; that as she had a zealous champion in blessed Stephen while he reigned upon earth,...
The Things That Are Above
A Commentary on the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary There is no better way to enter into the mystery of any...
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Luke 1:39-56 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Psalm 44:10-12.16 Apocalypse 11:19; 12:1-6.10 The Pascha of Summer Today’s festival, the Pascha of summer, signals the beginning of the...
One Good Priest
Today is the dies natalis of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus. Father McGivney died 117 years ago today, at 38...
Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum
What do these Catholic bloggers do when they meet? Pray. Sing. Talk. Eat. Pray. Sing. Talk. Eat. Did I mention the singing? This photo of...
Saint Clare of Assisi, Virgin and Abbess
For the Sake of Jesus Christ There is something singularly appealing about Saint Clare of Assisi. In many ways she resembles her brother and father...
More Solace for the Sizzling
Space for Grace So, is it sufficient to want chastity, to ask for it, and to wait for it? Yes. But if you really want...
Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr
Collect God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who led your martyr Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross to the knowledge of your crucified...
To Be A Child of God
Whatever did not fit in with my plan did lie within the plan of God. I have an ever deeper and firmer belief that nothing...
Saint Dominic
Eighteenth Wednesday of the Year I Numbers 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35 Psalm 105: 6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23 (R. 4a) Matthew 15:21-28 The Mercy of God...
Moses Was Very Meek
Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week of the Year I Numbers 12:1-13 Psalm 50:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5, 10-11 Mt 14:22-36 Miriam and Aaron Together with Moses, Miriam...
Ta Face est ma seule patrie
If you haven’t read Donald Jacob Uitvlugt’s article, The Holy Face in the Spirituality of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, today is the perfect day to...
The Holy Mass is the Work of God
Painting: Saint Jean-Marie Viannney and Saint Peter Julian Eymard The Preacher Belongs to the Word The Word does not belong to the preacher; the preacher...
Idolators or Adorers?
Monday of the Seventeenth Week of the Year I Exodus 32:15-34 Matthew 13:31-35 Idolatry Sins of idolatry and faithlessness are not as remote from us...
The Madonna of the Precious Blood
It was fitting on this last Saturday of July to remember the Madonna of the Most Precious Blood. The First Lesson at Mass (Exodus 24:3-8)...
The Blood of the New and Eternal Covenant
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week of the Year I Exodus 24:3-8 A Mystic Outline of the Mass We see in today’s lesson from the Book...
I Consider Myself Yours, O Mother of Perpetual Help
I was happy to discover that today’s “Moment with Mary” was a text of Blessed Charles of Jesus on Our Mother of Perpetual Help. (If...