Man has been made the friend of God
From the Exhortation to the Heathen by St Clement of Alexandria, Priest It will not, it will not be pleasing to God Himself if we...
Into the Garden of the Rosary
Telling One’s Beads Over Saint Luke’s Gospel I have always thought the Rosary a particularly Lukan prayer. So many of the mysteries are drawn from...
Pontifex Futurorum Bonorum
The Crucifix of San Gimignano (Benedetto da Maiano,1442-1497) And although I am about to withdraw, I remain close to all of you in prayer, and...
Tossed by waves yet not submerged
Our incomparable Saint John Chrysostom spoke to us at Matins this morning. To listen to the Fathers is to begin to see things from the...
À l’école du Père Vayssière
A Mystic of the Rosary I return, from time to time, to a couple of recent publications on a saintly Dominican, a true mystic of...