Secundum Verbum Tuum

For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven...

The Invitatory: Venite adoremus

Prepare Thy Soul One might say that, in the structure of monastic Vigils, Psalm 3 (see my previous entry) corresponds to the porch of the...

In the School of the Lord’s Service

Food for the Soul Over the past several weeks I have been reading two fascinating and inspiring biographies by Dom Guy-Marie Oury, O.S.B. The first...

Splendor gloriae tuae

I took this sunrise photo last November at Saint-Loup-sur-Aujon. It goes very well, I think, with today’s beautiful Advent Collect: Oriatur quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, in...

Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918-2008)

Cardinal Dulles died this morning, on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The following lines written in 1946, and already marked by profound humility...