Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Three
Victims and Victimhood For today’s text from Blessed Columba Marmion, I chose an extract from Christ, the Ideal of the Priest, in which he presents...
Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Two
The Second Day of the Novena Saturday, 23 January 2010 O Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son, establish Thyself as a furnace...
Novena in Honour of Blessed Abbot Marmion
The image of Blessed Abbot Marmion is a photograph I took of a painting in the Irish College in Rome in 2006. I remain grateful...
The Blessing of Oil in the Roman Ritual
Oil for Our Lamps The other day, a dear and generous friend, knowing that oil lamps burn in the Oratory before the Blessed Sacrament and...
Immaculata Victrix
In the spiritual combat that is the daily experience of so many priests, nothing can take the place of a confident recourse to the Immaculate...