A Master of Prayer

Learning How to Pray from Blessed Marmion Blessed Abbot Marmion’s prayers are, at once, biblical, profoundly theological, deeply personal, and altogether shaped by the language...

An Intercessor for Priests

Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil–Martiny Yesterday, 27 February, was the dies natalis and liturgical memorial of Blessed Marie de Jésus Deluil Martiny. Born to upper...

Dominus Illuminatio Mea

A Mass of the Transfiguration It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its...

Dom Guéranger: A Prophet

In his commentary on the lessons for the Ember Saturday in Lent, Dom Guéranger (1805-1875) writes: Does one want to understand the solidity of a...

Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata

Saint Gabriel of the Addolorata died on February 27, 1862 at twenty-four years of age. Pope Benedict XV canonized him on May 13, 1920. The...