Qui non est consolatus, nescit consolare
First Tuesday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 71: 1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Luke 10:21-24 The photograph is of the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar...
Domine, non sum dignus
Monday of the First Week of Advent Isaiah 2:1–5 Psalm 121:1–2, 3–4ab, 4cd–5, 6–7, 8–9 Matthew 8:5–11 Saints in Advent We celebrate the Holy Mysteries...
4 December, Saint Barbara, Virgin and Martyr
I am mindful today of the dear friends named Barbara whom God has sent into my life. According to tradition, Saint Barbara was confined to...
Come, Bridegroom Christ
This hymn belongs at the Hour of Sext during Advent. The text, though inspired by something written by a friend many years ago, is my...
Vox Clara Ecce Intonat
Here is my rendering of the Advent hymn for Lauds. Like the Vespers hymn below, it may be sung to the corresponding tune in the...
Conditor Alme Siderum
This is my translation of Conditor Alme Siderum. When Advent rolls round and I sing this hymn, I see in my mind’s eye Van Gogh’s...
Missus est Gabriel Angelus
In the Cistercian liturgy the center piece of First Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent is Missus est Gabriel Angelus, a magnificent Great Responsory...
Respice in Faciem Christi Tui
Today, being the First Friday of the month, we had exposition and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the monastery. Saint Gaetano Catanoso used...
This kind of Liturgy can never grow old or outdated
From the homily of His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew I at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Saint George in Istanbul: Every...
30 November, Saint Andrew, Apostle
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON The Lord saw two brothers along the sea of Galilee, Peter and Andrew, and he called to them: Come after me, and I...
Ecce Mater Tua
Thirty–Fourth Wednesday of the Year II Apocalypse 15:1–4 Psalm 97:1, 2–3ab, 7–8, 9 (R. Apocalypse 15:3b) John 19:5b–27 The Heart in Pilgrimage Ubi Petrus, ibi...
29 November, Mass of the Commending of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pope Benedict XVI will be celebrating Holy Mass today in a open place adjacent to the shrine of the Holy House of Mother Mary near...
Recommended Reading
I have never made a secret of it: Blessed Abbot Marmion has been for me a spiritual master, a father, and a friend from the...
Clean Hands and a Pure Heart
Monday of the Thirty–Fourth Week of the Year II Revelation 14:1–3, 4b–5 Psalm 23:1–2, 3–4ab, 5–6 (R. 6) Luke 21:1–4 Prayer for the Holy Father...
A Wonderful Day
I offered Holy Mass in thanksgiving for my twenty years of priesthood today, gathering with family and friends in the little church of the Monastery...
We Are Thine and Thine We Wish To Be
In 1925 Pope Pius XI decreed that the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus first carried out by Pope Leo...
Les belles amitiés: Thérèse et Théophane
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face (1873–1897) Saint Théophane Vénard (1829–1861) It is true that the Lord chooses the little...
Holy Mass: Our Great Thanksgiving
Votive Mass In Thanksgiving to God 1 Kings 8:55-61 Psalm 144: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 John 15:9-17 “Solomon stood before the altar of the...
Thanksgiving: A Papistical Approach
Being a Papist and not a Puritan, I have always felt somewhat ambiguous about the Thanksgiving holiday . . . not about the domestic observance...
Et Ecce Ostium Apertum in Caelo
Thirty–Third Wednesday of the Year II Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Revelation 4:1–11 Psalm 150:1–2, 3–4, 5–6 (Rev 4:8b) Luke 19:11–28 Heaven’s Open...