Benedictine All Souls Day

Praying for the Dead It is a cherished monastic tradition to pray for the dead. Some monasteries still hold to the old custom of praying...

Thoughts on Priesthood and Adoration

Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour; to Him be glory and empire unto the...

Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere

Showing Forth His Face In the Ordinary Form, the Collect for today’s memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo contains an extraordinary phrase. We beseech (quaesumus) the...