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...
Holy Week at Silverstream Priory
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The Wound of Divine Love
A popular Jesuit priest–writer, appreciated by secular pundits for his congenial urbanity and wit, recently wrote an essay addressing the struggle of some priests with...
Patron Saint of Catholic Online–Journalists and Bloggers
Saint Francis de Sales Given that, in many cases, blogs have become a new form of journalism, or of political and ecclesiastical commentary, I propose...
Praying to Saint Joseph for Priests
Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests O glorious Saint Joseph, thou who, on the word of the angel speaking to thee in the night, didst...
Happy St Patrick’s Day from Silverstream Priory
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Vidi Dominum facie ad faciem
The Stational Church It is a curious fact of liturgical history that originally the Second Sunday of Lent had no Mass of its own. The...