Salve, Festa Dies

It is the custom in some monasteries to go round the cloister, singing the Salve, Festa Dies, in procession before Lauds on Easter morning. Many...

Grant Us Breathing Space

Monday of Holy Week Today’s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the...

Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion

Into the Silence Listening to the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to speak. Perhaps there...

Ipse est ianua, ipse est via

This morning, Saint Ambrose at Matins: Ipse est per quem ascendimus, et ad quem ascendimus. Ipse est janua, ipse est via, qui aperitur, et qui...