In the Light of Today’s Gospel
“But I tell you, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute and insult you.” (Matthew 5:44) Prayer...
In plateas et vicos civitatis
When I came to the Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers this evening, I made the delightful discovery of the text (with a splendid First Mode melody)...
Saint Alice the Leper
Ablaze With the Love of Christ Today’s Saint Alice of Schaerbeek, a Cistercian-Benedictine nun, was one of a constellation of holy women who in the...
One-Hundred-Nine Years Ago Today
On June 9, 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The eighty-nine year old Pontiff was prompted to...
Contra spem in spem credidit
Many years ago, as I was standing in the rain in front of the grotto at Lourdes on a cold February morning, a saintly old...
