Stabat Mater
This is the lovely translation of the Stabat Mater given in Maurice Zundel’s classic, The Splendour of the Liturgy (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1939)....
In the Garden
In the garden, His Face was unseen, for the eyes of His friends had grown heavy with sleep, and there was none to meet the...
Lest We Betray Him With a Kiss
The Call to Holiness My monastic vocation, as it has developed and matured over the years, is intimately bound up with the lives of my...
Abba Joseph related that Abba Isaac said:
“I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy and as I was on terms of great freedom of speech...
Father Zuhlsdorf gets it right
Painting by Simeon Solomon Father Zuhlsdorf has a brilliant essay on the humble and the sublime in the sacred liturgy. I am thinking about the...