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...

Cleansing of the Mind

Here is today’s Collect in the Missale Romanum and in the Liturgia Horarum. In the 1962 Missale Romanum it is the Collect of the Second...

Our Lady in Advent

This morning at Vigils the Second Reading was from a homily by Abbot Geoffrey of Admont. It was wonderfully suitable, coming after the feasts of...