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...
Prayer of a Priest
Convert Thou me entirely, O my beloved Jesus, that I may live every moment— up to and including the very moment of my death —...
Holiness through a tangle of thorns
She had a vision of a young man who, in order to guide her through the tangle of thorns that surrounded her soul, took her...