November: Praying for the Holy Souls
Like a Gentle Rain It must have been forty-five years ago — or more — that I opened the Latin-English missal published by the Abbey...
Le peuple immense de ceux qui T’ont cherché
Here (once again) is the homily I preached in French six years ago at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, France. Richard Chonak’s fine translation follows....
The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace
Christ the King Sunday we celebrated the feast of Christ the King; it is, of course, intimately bound up with the feast of All Saints...
An Irish Bishop who died in Italy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We keep the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy) today, and I had to admit to knowing next to nothing about the...
Beholding the glory of the Lord with open face
Yesterday afternoon at Knock I had the privilege of addressing an outstanding group of Irish priests, most of them younger men, and some with only...