Matrem nobis et magistram providisti

4 May 2015
Today, we had this wonderful collect (from the Maurist Benedictine Breviary) at the Hours: O God, who hast given us thy Spouse, the Church, to...

While Ye Have the Light of Life

3 May 2015
2 Jan. 3 May. 2 Sept. Let us then at length arise, since the Scripture stirreth us up, saying: “It is time now for us...

Lydia Pupuraria

28 April 2015
Reading Acts Before Dawn At Matins this morning (well before dawn) we read the 16th chapter of the book of Acts in which Saint Lydia...

Saint Anselm of Aosta (c. 1033 —1109)

21 April 2015
Today is the feast of Saint Anselm, abbot of Bec, and archbishop of Canterbury, whose writings, we read at Matins, ‘seem to be drawn from...