The Consolations of His Coming

December 24 Collect at the Hours and at the Mass in the Morning Come quickly, we beseech You, Lord Jesus, and do not delay, so...

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...