Vultus Christi

The two Collects given us by the liturgy this week — the first in the Extraordinary Form, and the second in the Ordinary Form —...

One of Barbara Pym’s characters — I don’t remember which one — sometimes exclaims, “Too much richness!” Exactly my sentiments concerning this past weekend! There...

Bienheureux Monsieur et Madame This morning, a married couple, the parents of a daughter who is a saint and a Doctor of the Church, were...

Pope Benedict XVI preaches like a monk! By this I mean that his preaching, like that of Saint Gregory the Great and others of the...

I really do love praying Matins in the pre-dawn darkness while, in their own way, the crickets, and cicadas, and birds sing their Nocturns outside....