Cecilia
Wishing a very blessed feastday to our Oblate sister Cecilia of Rome in Connecticut! A Veiled Face I never tire of looking at the statue...
Enter Into the Veiled Places and Learn the Mysteries of God
Go to Be an Offering and a Fragrant Incense Today’s feast is Eastern in origin, Eastern in sensibility. To taste its mystery one has to...
Into the House of the Lord
Our Lady in the Temple The solemn dedication of the Church of the Mother of God near the Temple in Jerusalem took place on November...
The Earlier Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The image is a detail from Dürer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1519). I especially like Saint Anne’s motherly hand resting on Our Lady’s...
The terrible glory of the priesthood
Reading Canon Eugène Masure’s book, Parish Priest (Fides, 1955) I came upon this remarkable passage: It is not only at the Last Supper and on...