The Holy Father Asks for Our Prayers

The Holy Father asks to be joined by the prayers of all the faithful, so that the Lord may enlighten the path of the Church....

A Church with Face and Garments Soiled

Good Friday 2005: A Prayer by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Lord, your Church often seems like a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water...

In puero puer

Saint Augustine preached this morning at the Third Nocturn of Vigils. Amazing. It makes one want to applaud! Does anyone preach like this today? Read...

Nolite obdurare corda vestra

This painting of Jesus preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum is the work of the Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879). Note that he depicts Our...

Blessed Abbot Marmion on the Mercy of God

Today, January 30th, is the eighty-sixth anniversary of the death of Blessed Columba Marmion. Dom Marmion’s liturgical memorial is observed, not on his anniversary of...