Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.

Would you have recognized him? This is none other than Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War...

Saint Jerome and Lectio Divina

Jerome and the Monastic Path Jerome, translator of the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible into Latin, the tongue of the common folk,...

Patri munus et hostiam

The Office hymn given for Lauds and Vespers in the Liber Hymnarius and in the Liturgia Horarum for today’s feast of Saint Jerome, Doctor of...

Desire for God, unutterable love

Yesterday morning at Matins, we had this magnificent text of the Golden–Mouthed Doctor: From the Book on Prayer by St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor...