Quia fecit nobíscum misericórdiam suam
Blessed be the Holy Trinity and undivided Unity: we will give glory to Him, because He has shown His mercy to us. (Introit, Trinity Sunday)...
Most Holy Trinity
Cascades of Jubilation The Office of Lauds this morning was a torrent of undiluted praise. The Church gives us doxology upon doxology. She expresses her...
Inclina aurem cordis tui
Our Oblate Brother Marco Gregory da Vinha at Inclina aurem cordis tui offers his readers the fruits of his own contemplation. I recommend Inclina aurem...
A Gift for Each Day
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost What are the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost? The Catechism names them: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge,...
Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum.
There is no place on earth where the Holy Ghost is not present. There is no place so high that He cannot go there; no...
Eyes Only for Thy Face
A Longing to See Him Again Blessed John Henry Newman wrote somewhere that the Ascension of the Lord is “at once a source of sorrow,...
Our Lady of the Cenacle in Armenian Iconography
After his brilliant latest essays on Julien Green, and on Saints Benedict and Philip Neri, Mr Rick Yoder, only recently graduated from The University of...
Our Lady of Fatima
My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph Today’s feast of Our Lady of Fatima coincides with the thirty–sixth anniversary of the attempt on the life of Pope...
And then your hearts will be glad
Homily, Second Day of Retreat to Priests of the Diocese of Galway Knock Shrine, Co Mayo Tuesday, 9 May 2017 The Collect of the Mass...
Compunction
Homily, First Day of Retreat to Priests of the Diocese of Galway Knock Shrine, Co Mayo Monday, 8 May 2017 Having heard these things, they...
Go to Joseph
Go to Joseph in thy joys, thou wilt rejoice the more. Go to Joseph in thy grief, when death knocks at thy door. Go to...
A Letter to Alessandro
A young man asked if I might reflect with him on the practice of Total Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, following the doctrine of...
Et noli esse incrédulus, sed fidélis
Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus “This is the day the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it!” (Psalm 117:24). For...
Happy 90th Birthday, Holy Father!
Before the beginning of the seven last plagues imposed upon the earth, the seer has a vision of something “like a sea of glass mingled...
In His Face Thou seest all our faces
Respice, quaesumus Domine, super hanc familiam tuam, pro qua Dominus noster Iesus Christus non dubitavit manibus tradi nocentium et Crucis subire tormentum. Qui tecum vivit...
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...
Nos autem
The Eucharist and the Cross Today’s Introit is the very one that we will sing on Maundy Thursday on the threshold of the Sacred Triduum:...
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...
I will go before you
There You Shall See Me The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon still echo in our hearts: “It is therefore written: I...