Prayer Ever on Your Lips
I first read the life of the heroic Father Willie Doyle, S.J. by Alfred O’Rahilly forty years ago. It was the summer of 1968, and...
All Things New and Better
Mary Coredemptrix I thrilled to the passage from Saint Bernard that I read this morning at Matins of the Saturday Office of the Blessed Virgin...
Turn On Us Thy Healing Face
Two strophes from this morning’s hymn at Lauds seemed to come to life as I sang them in the sunlight of this new Day of...
Nothing Else than the Grace of God
Reading Saint Paul This morning in my lectio continua of Saint Paul, I read Romans 7:14-25. I’m using the splendid translation of Monsignor Ronald A....
Nihil Amori Christi Praeponere
Saints Benedict and Paul This Solemnity of Our Father Saint Benedict, falling in the Pauline Year, invites us — I want to say, compels us...